A text watermark allows you to specify any text, special characters or EXIF properties as a watermark.
Watermark
Text
You can write any
text in the large textbox provided on the top and you can immediately see the
preview under the window. You can drag and move the text watermark settings
window anywhere on the screen.
Font Options
You can specify various font options like the font name,
size, italic, bold, underline and strikethrough. You can also specify the
alignment of the text. Apart from the default font sizes you can also manually
type in a size that is not in the list. You can choose the text color and whether to add a
shadow and the color of the shadow as well. You can
set the size of the font to be Proportional or fixed. If the font
is set to be proportional, then it shall calculate the font size in proportion to the underlying
image Height, else it shall use the size specified as the font
size.
Watermark Macro
You can use various macros as the watermark text. Macros are special placeholders that are converted to appropriate value for each image. You can add macros like image name with or without extension, full image path, date of creation, Autonumber and various EXIF properties found on the photo.
Please note that
only those EXIF properties are displayed which are found on the
photo.
You can double click on a macro to insert it in the watermark text or select a macro and click on the Insert Selected Macro button.
You can also add a Auto Number as the Watermark by selecting the Auto Number macro from the Watermark Macro list. It shall open a window, where you can specify, the starting Number and the minimum number of digits that the watermark shall be. It also has an option to continue from the Last Number, on selecting this, it shall continue from the last number that was generated after the watermarking process.
Special Characters
You can add special characters like © or £ symbols by selecting the character you want from the list provided and double click on the character or by selecting it and clicking on the Insert Special Character button.
Text Effects
You can add effects to the text like Emboss to the watermarks. The effects can be customised to use a color emboss or use transparent emboss.
Watermark Options
The transparency option allows you to specify how transparent the watermark should be. Value of zero will make the watermark completely invisible.
You can choose a rotation angle for your watermark. You can select one of the eight predefined angles or specify your own value between 0 and 360. The normal value is zero which is same as 360 which means no rotation.
Tiling
You can choose to tile your watermark with horizontally or vertically or both. Select the appropriate option to enable tiling. Set the spacing between tiles by entering the value in the respective text boxes.
Position
You can place the watermark at one of the nine predefined positions or use a custom left and top position. Note that in case tiling is enabled the position values don’t have any effect.
Padding
Depending on the
position you can also specify the padding or margin of the watermark from the
left, top, right or bottom edges of the image. For instance if you wish to put
the watermark on left, top side but want to keep a margin of 100 pixels you can
specify 100 in the top and left padding boxes.