watermark for very large images help

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watermark for very large images help

hi all,

i am wondering if anyone might be able to help me with watermarks.

i have been able to get some watermarks on web sized images - and to the best of my recollection i PRE-SIZED the watermark images outside of aperture by sizing an actual image in photoshop and then did some testing by exporting images to the desktop to see if this SIZE image was appropriate.

so now i have two images with one being black and the other being white and both are 2"x2". this works great proportionally for web sized images. and i have presets for each of these called top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right.

however, i now need to do some 13x19 inch prints and i am finding that the original images (20+ MB in size) are exporting to the desktop with this watermark as a very, very, very small image.

so i went back to my original images (again one black and one white) and scaled these up by a factor or 5 but of course this is making the logo/overlay very rasterized.

do i have to search my hard drive and try to find a vector based logo somehow so that i can size a RASTER based image at the correct size for exporting these larger images? or is there a simpler way to do watermark/overlays?

i mean, i would ideally like to just export an image and simply have some kind of inspector dialog that allowed me to SIZE THE OVERLAY to 5" or 6" or whatever. and somehow i am getting caught up in a methodology that is feeling a little too complicated for me at the moment.

maybe there is a simpler piece of software to do this in?

THANKS for any help

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Mar 4, 2016 11:59 AM

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Yer_Man

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Mar 4, 2016 12:06 PM in response to hotwheels22

Can't help you with the problem but you need to rephrase it in pixel dimensions. There is no 2" x 2" on a computer, nor 13 x 19 or 5" or 6" either. The file size in MB is irrelevant and confusing.

So what size do you want to export at in pixels and what size are your watermarks in pixels?

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hotwheels22 Author

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Mar 17, 2016 1:29 PM in response to hotwheels22

hi terence,

i can gather this information for you but i am hoping to make sure i understand the workflow in order to accomplish this.

if i use pixels as the dimensions on my watermarks which i am using to export to the desktop for a watermarked image - i still have to do this proportionally somehow so that the watermark shows up in the same place at the same scale.

the problem i am trying to resolve is that i have a set of watermarks (currently i am providing a description of them in inches) which when used with the final photography that i have downsized for web-based images - results in a good /proportional/ relationship for web-based watermark images.

the problem i have is that i am now using the PRINT images in order to get printed images and the watermarks are no longer working.

if i take your suggestion and i work in pixels then i can take the current WATERMARK size in pixels and divide this by the current WEB-BASED images in pixels and end up with some proportion.

then presumably i would find out the pixel size of the PRINT IMAGES. but i would still have to (presumably) run a ratio to find out how /large/ i need to have the "PRINT WATERMARKS" in order to get a good final image.

do you know what i mean? i mean, i am wondering if i need to go back to find a VECTOR-BASED /original/ for the watermark and then to basically downsize this into some pixel dimensions that work well with the PRINT IMAGES.

this means i then have to create a whole new /se/t of watermarks at a new size! these would be something like:

PRINT watermark TOP LEFT

PRINT watermark TOP RIGHT

PRINT watermark BOTTOM LEFT

PRINT watermark BOTTOM RIGHT

PRINT watermark INVERTED TOP LEFT

PRINT watermark INVERTED TOP RIGHT

PRINT watermark INVERTED BOTTOM LEFT

PRINT watermark INVERTED BOTTOM RIGHT

do you know what i am asking? i mean i am wondering if i do in fact have to go through this whole process....

THANKS

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Yer_Man

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Mar 17, 2016 3:58 PM in response to hotwheels22

The point is this:

There are no inches on your computer. Only pixels. To describe an image as 2" x 2" is, essentially, meaningless. So, easies way to work if you have two images is to open the actual photo in an app that supports layers - or even Preview. Then open the image file for the watermark. Copy and paste it onto the photo and resize it there by hand.

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