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.