Hello Everyone!
Hope you are all gearing up for the holidays, It’s already September, so it’s just around the corner!

One of the biggest requests I get at Ritzipx Pro is:

“Can I add my own watermark/logo to all my photos?”

Well, through our system, as you know, your images are right-click protected and watermarked, this is only protection on the site itself.  The unwatermarked images are still sent to the store.  Many of our Pros have requested a way to add their own logo or watermark to their images as an added protection when the image is sent to the lab for printing.  Unfortunately this has to be done prior to uploading to the site for selling.  If you have done this with Adobe Photoshop, as I have, you all know that batch processing can be a pain.

I have found a great FREE software suite that you should all try to help make your life a little easier.

FastStone.org

FastStone has FREE softwares that all revolve around image editing.  FastStone Image Viewer, FastStone Capture, FastStone MaxView, and FastStone Photo Resizer.  I love the image viewer!  It’s a great way to navigate your photos as well as quickly view the image metadata and apply various edits without actually reorganizing your current file structure.

FastStone Photo Resizer

FastStone Photo Resizer is a great software for batch processing folders of images.  You can resize a whole folder of images to low resolution emailable images, or you can up the dpi on a set of images with a few clicks of the mouse.  You can also apply your own Logos, Watermarks, and Borders.

Just choose the source folder of you images and choose a destination to save them to.  Check the “Use Advanced Options” box and then click on the “Advanced Options” button to adjust your batch settings.

The Advanced options of the software allow you to apply various changes to an entire album/folder (batch).  You can Batch Resize, Rotate, Crop, Adjust Canvas Size, Color Depth, DPI, add Text, Watermarks and Borders.  You can also rename all your photos to assist you with sequential ordering.

Using the borders function you have the ability to apply a wide variety of different borders.

Below is a sample of what the above settings will give you:

As you can see, there are a wide variety of borders you can apply to your images.  Borders are a great add on to your images to provide a customized look to make your prints stand out from anyone elses.

Through the softwares advanced features, you can also apply text, or a logo to all your photos as a way to brand your prints.  You can add simple text with your Lifepics web address across the bottom of all your photos, or you can add your own graphic to the corner of each of your images.

Ritz Camera, Ritzpix.com, Ritzpix Pro, & Lifepics are not affiliated with FastStone.  FastStone is a free software that is easy and offers many options to you providing a helpful tool for your image editing.

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Setting up your watermark is easy.

Just log into your admin site.  Click on “Settings” and choose “Edit Watermark.”  Enter your information and click update.  Now, from this point forward, every image you upload will have your new watermark settings applied.

Applying your NEW watermark settings to photos already uploaded:

When you update your watermark settings, your images will not show the changes.  To apply the new changes, you must rotate the images.  click on “Login to Account” and choose “View Photos.”  choose the album containing the photos you wish to apply the chages to.  Check the box to select all and rotate once to the left.  Now check the select all box again and rotate once back to the right.

Now your new watermark settings have been applied to your images!

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