Watermark Question

dieselpowered · October 17th, 2009, 11:16 AM

Ok there are several differerent watermark options within the control panel...they are appear to do the same thing, am I wrong? What is the difference?

I am trying to watermark photos so that when viewed have the watermark, however, when / if downloaded, do not. Is this possible? It seems I have attempted every different combination of settings and they all permanently watermark the image.

Thanks in advance!!

Chuck S · October 17th, 2009, 04:46 PM

The watermark options in internet protection settings are ON THE FLY watermarking so what you need to do is place the full server path to a png watermark where it is asked and then turn on the on the fly watermark switch not the regular watermark options.

dieselpowered · October 17th, 2009, 04:58 PM

OK so here are the settings I have:

Enable watermarking of photos with overlay image? No

Enable on-the-fly image protection? Yes

When using on-the-fly image generation, do you want to overlay the watermark image? Yes

This produces a permanent watermark

_______________________________

Enable watermarking of photos with overlay image? No

Enable on-the-fly image protection? Yes

When using on-the-fly image generation, do you want to overlay the watermark image? No

No watermark

________________________________

Enable watermarking of photos with overlay image? No

Enable on-the-fly image protection? No

When using on-the-fly image generation, do you want to overlay the watermark image? Yes

No watermark

Thanks for your help!

Chuck S · October 17th, 2009, 05:05 PM

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.

Yes to those does not do a permanent watermark only when you turn on watermarking under the watermark options can you have a permanent watermark.

dieselpowered · October 17th, 2009, 05:18 PM

Hmmm then something is not working, cause when I have those settings as you described, when I view and image, right click and save as...the saved image has a watermark?

Chuck S · October 17th, 2009, 06:49 PM

well that would only be because you already permanently watermarked an image

YOU DO NOT TURN THIS ON in watermark options

Enable watermarking of photos with overlay image?

Chuck S · October 17th, 2009, 06:51 PM

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http://www.sxshq.com/gallery/data/502/100_0139.JPG

Its set right the actual true image is not watermarked

dieselpowered · October 18th, 2009, 10:44 AM

Ok then that actually answers my other idea then...I was trying to right click save as, however, since it has the copyright overlaid, that is why it is showing if I download (cause it is feeding through PP and be watermarked)

If the file is directly downloaded and not served through PP, that is why the watermark is not showing.

Thanks, I feel a tad less stupid now...not a lot but a little. Appreciate your time!

Chuck S · October 18th, 2009, 10:55 AM

Yeah well right clicking a watermarked image will result in a watermarked image being saved yes. Usually people using that function disable right click because the watermark script is part of the image protection settings.