Automatic thumbnailer and watermark adder?

what is a program i can use to do this to alot of photos very fast?sort of like what surface uses to add the boarder and logo to their pics.. any help would be greatthanks in advancechris

actually i was wondering myself
probably just photoshop

make a layer with the watermark or logo and border and have it over the top of the picture

so theres a picture layers under the border and logo layer and just turn off all the picture layers and turn one on to change the pic and save each one

that would work.. but 400+ photos at a time there has to be a program that would make it easier

you can do that in photoshop no problem, its called BATCH. Have your photos all in one folder & open one of the pics and on the same palette that has your history it should say actions, click that tab and a whole lsit should come up, then click the "create new action" button right next to the trash can and name your action then hit the record button. THen you can start adding your borders and logos ect. Then do file save as blah.jpg but save it to a new destination folder. Once saved you can click the stop button in the action palette. Once you are done with that click File > Automate > Batch. Window will pop up and the section that says Play one change the action section to what ever you named your certian action in the begining. then in Source choose the folder with your original pics and destionation choose the folder where your new pics will go. Everything else should be fine and click OK and it should start saving the pics as how you did it to the first one. This im jsut going off the pop of my head here but you can do a search for it like "photoshop batch" and there are fully detailed tutorials with pics and what not that should help you out alot.

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Brian has the best bet, there are several programs that are out there that do it but if you've got photoshop then you can use that. That's how nick is able to add borders and text to each photo. you can also run general color corrections if all the photos were taken in the same light and it'll adjust them all. We prefer to use the manual method @ Layinbody.com, one photo at a time color correcting each one by eye and then adding a logo to each. Time consuming but much better then the auto shit. and your complaining about 400+ photos. you should see the show coverage we get, you only see about 1/3 of the photos we take actually on the site. you can also throw away the bad ones when your doing em one at a time. good luck...

^^^Exactly why it takes me a while to edit my coverage. I do everything one image at a time.

Edited: 11/12/2006 11:13:40 AM by jancecustoms

Originally posted by DougyFrisch



^^^Brian has the best bet, there are several programs that are out there that do it but if you've got photoshop then you can use that. That's how nick is able to add borders and text to each photo. you can also run general color corrections if all the photos were taken in the same light and it'll adjust them all. We prefer to use the manual method @ Layinbody.com, one photo at a time color correcting each one by eye and then adding a logo to each. Time consuming but much better then the auto shit. and your complaining about 400+ photos. you should see the show coverage we get, you only see about 1/3 of the photos we take actually on the site. you can also throw away the bad ones when your doing em one at a time. good luck...

That's exactly how I do it too. I upload all the pictures resize them with a program and then edit my photos if needed and then add my logo. Most of the time I just add my logo and move on. I took around 1,500 pictures from Sema this year and only got 900 on my site.

I kept having issues with frontpage and it would shutdown the program before I got to finishing saving my pictures so i didn't get all the images that I tagged. I didn't get all 1,000 images that I tagged on the site because I kept losing my place since it kept closing out on me. Sema coverage this year took me about 20 hours alone to do but I would rather do it one by one than use a program to do it for me. I guess I'm just too picky about where my logo goes on the photo

I respect those that take the time to manually edit each photo one by one! Nothing wrong with using programs I just have a preference. The end result is what gets people coming back, otherwise you are just wasting your time. I'm not concerned with how fast I get my photos up after a show. If people like your coverage they will look at them no matter what time you get them up. :TUP:

^^^^ 20 hours? Holy shit dude, your killing yourself over there if it takes you that long, and you said you don't even correct every photo... It takes us a few hours to color correct and logo Every photo. We don't let any photos pass without at least some adjustments. I don't care how expensive the camera is, its still no match for the human eye to do final adjustments. I even open and edit the ones that never make it to the site, you'll never know when a few adjustments might change your mind.

Also, shortcuts and actions are you best friend when using this method.... Adobe help has a full list of shortcuts if your interested.

The reason why I don't correct a lot of them is because I think they look good enough to use on the site without adjustments. Before I take a picture I edit my settings on my camera so it takes better pictures that way, it does pretty good for a $300 camera Here is one I just put my logo on and uploaded.



The 20 hours wasn't all just tagging pictures. Frontpage closed out on my about 20 times before I could save it and I lost all the images I was trying to upload. And most of that time was spent on the custom layout, making the pages, hyperlinks etc.

I am interested in a faster way to tag the pictures though! I think actually tagging my Sema coverage probably took me about 8 hours on and off to tag. I'm the only person that edit's my pictures and website so I spend a lot more time than most people would.

Editing definately is worth the time. I spent about 20 minutes editing this while watching a movie just now...