watermarking in lightroom

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December 9, 2017
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Hello everyone,

I want to know how to position watermark in lightroom cc 6 on multiple pictures. As i open watermark editor in LR, i can only position my watermark at certain fixed areas of a picture. I don't want to position watermark on same place for all the pictures. so how to place watermark at different areas for multiple pcitures in lightroom

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Correct answer Rob_Cullen

To work-around the 'weakness', create as many watermarks as you need using different options of- set locations, fonts, graphics, etc.

When you want to customize 'per picture'- choose the nearest of those you created from the Preset menu, then open the menu again and select "Edit Watermarks...", now you can 'fine tune' the selected watermark to suit the photo, color, size, opacity, etc.

Basically this achieves what you are wanting- "customize..per picture"

But- No, it cannot be done on the image window in any 'simple' method.

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neilm3030975

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Not sure if anyone here can help me as it appears Adobe have no interest. I purchased Lightroom Perpetual in 2015 with a new computer, I have just upgraded my computer & of course discovered I can't transfer my copy of Lightroom across to my new computer. I have now had to take on a subscription offer to continue. Lightroom has changed, my photos are captured in RAW as a CR2 file & in my old Lightroom I could edit & add a watermark & save the image as a CR2. In the new Lightroom I only have the option of adding a watermark in JPEG format which potentially degrades the image or PNG that makes the image too big for publishing. I have sought support from Adobe direct however their online support response has been non existent ..... help please

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MelissaLA88

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If you have access to Photoshop, you could always send your image to Photoshop and place your watermark on it there. Then you have lots of options! If you do this, I would suggest putting your watermark into your Creative Cloud library, so that it is easily accessible. This may not be the solution you are looking for, but I am simply making another suggestion

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Robert M. Salmon

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^^ At best that's a half-useful workaround, but not a full solution for those of us who prefer to make watermarks as faint as possible or sample the picture background pixels for the base color of the watermark.

Really the only solution is to publish images singly from LR to a directory on your hard drive, then manually upload the images from there to wherever it was you wanted to publish to in the first place.

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Robert M. Salmon

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This is a real weakness in Lightroom. I prefer to customize the watermark per picture. In order to make it as faint as possible I match it closely to surrounding color, etc.

Rob_Cullen

Correct answer

Community Expert

To work-around the 'weakness', create as many watermarks as you need using different options of- set locations, fonts, graphics, etc.

When you want to customize 'per picture'- choose the nearest of those you created from the Preset menu, then open the menu again and select "Edit Watermarks...", now you can 'fine tune' the selected watermark to suit the photo, color, size, opacity, etc.

Basically this achieves what you are wanting- "customize..per picture"

But- No, it cannot be done on the image window in any 'simple' method.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

Rob_Cullen

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My only work-around is to create multiple watermarks that only differ by changing the position and saved with a name to indicate the position. It means selecting the photos that suit each watermark.

So I have watermarks- Name-lower left, Name-top right, Name- center, etc

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .