Watermark

sumri · March 6th, 2008, 07:04 AM

I've never using watermark all my live.

can someone pls explain to me step by step to create watermark?

including watermark filename (wether it has a standard watermark name / can be anything)

regards.

Dukefrukem · March 6th, 2008, 07:14 AM

I tried using it too and never could get it to work.

Chuck S · March 6th, 2008, 07:22 AM

You need to create a watermark and not really something some one can tell you to do as that would depend on the graphics program you use as every last one is different. Basically you want to create a transparent image in a gif or png based on what processor your using. For imagemagick you use a gif and for gd2 you use a png watermark

http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/data/watermark.png

Thats just an example i use on my site

Once you have an image you create that you like its pretty simple to fill out the options in admin and we can gladly assist you there if your having problems.

Dukefrukem · March 6th, 2008, 07:50 AM

Well the problem I'm having is it doesn't seem to scale the watermark to the imagine. Say for example the photo uploaded is smaller than the width of the watermark.

Chuck S · March 6th, 2008, 10:04 AM

Yeah watermarks are not resized. You need to create a watermark thats going to look good on most images. Normal is 200 to 300 x 50 or 60

sumri · March 15th, 2008, 09:22 PM

i've create my watermark image and upload it into "data" folder.
I've setting watermark option but nothing happen.

Can u pls detail out what should i do next?

regards.

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 11:19 AM

What type of watermarking are you setting up? Permanent or on the fly?

sumri · March 17th, 2008, 08:42 AM

I use 'on-the-fly'.

Chuck S · March 17th, 2008, 09:01 AM

Okay Thats easy.

1. Make sure your watermark is a png image

2. Make sure the you will on the watermark path and set the following options to yes in admin => image protection => options

Enable on-the-fly image protection
This option uses the watermark.php script to serve images

When using on-the-fly image generation, do you want to overlay the watermark image?
You can use this feature for on-the-fly watermarks in combination with the on-the-fly image generation.

Full server path to watermark overlay image.

Joeycano · May 8th, 2008, 08:37 AM

Worked perfectly for me. Thanks for the detailed instructions

Chuck S · May 8th, 2008, 11:39 AM

Not a problem glad to assist.