Wanting to Watermark diagonally across entire image in Lightroom... how ?

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Hi All

I have been using Zenfolio to host my images, and I have recently discovered that many people have been simply taking the images off my site without contacting me or paying for them. Now, I am not a professional photographer, but... for example, I take many shots at my daughters rugby team games, and offer these shots to the parents of opposing sides. I advise them that all money I take from these shots goes back into the junior rugby club. Now I find out that many parents have downloaded copies of the images of their children without paying, or without donating anything to our club. So... I need to provide a watermark on all uploaded images with 'Sample' or 'copyright me' etc across the entire image.

Can I do this in Lightroom?

I would prefer to have a diagonal watermark from bottom left, to top right, in a big bold font, but obviously with reduced opacity and want to be able to output directly from Lightroom to my Zenfolio gallery (I have the plug-in installed and working to do this), but with the watermark on the images.

Is this possible please...?
 
i don't know but how can you track images being taken off?
 
visualisetheworld said:
i don't know but how can you track images being taken off?
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I can't, but I know they have because one of the parents of an opposing team said thanks for letting me have the pictures you posted!!!!:bat::bang:

I therefore want to stop this by placing a watermark on the uploaded images.

I know I can do this in CS3, but I want to see if I can do it in Lightroom.
 
The LRMogrify plugin for Lightroom is handy for watermarking:

http://timothyarmes.com/lrmogrify.php

I couldn't install it though maybe you'll have more luck than me?

Personally I do all my watermarks with Watermark Factory, I can batch watermark them all quickly and easily.
 
Can't you just put Right Click protection on?

I remember they used something like that on piczo, but don't know about your host

TG
 
Thanks all

I just donated to the LRMogrify plugin for Lightroom and have been experimenting. it seems to work excellently, and I am in the process of applying this as a workflow to all the required images.

Great advice everyone, thanks, much appreciated.
 
John did this in PS maybe a little ott but they're less likely to steal your images.
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How to here http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/?m=show&id=161
 
Right click protection is FAR too easy to work round for you to bother with.
 
Excellent feedback and pointers here .... thanks all for posting help as many, me one of them, need this badly :thumbs:
 
Right-click isn't much cop at all, you can just use the screen capture function then crop

With watermarking I think you have to play around with the size of the watermark, and the size and resolution of the photo so people aren't happy enough with the quality to just make their own copy of it. But at the same time you want to show your picture off. So you need to get the balance right to promote and protect yourself
 
Thanks for the pointers everyone. I mamaged to get LG/Mogrify plugin working well with Lightroom... here's a particularly nice model... :)

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