Joel Francisco geek stories and photography misadventures

Lightroom 2 Watermark Plugin that works!

This came from avforums site...thanks to Tobers

Firstly, you need ImageMagick installed. This is a command line image manipulation application, but dont worry about that at the moment. Here's the download link.

Secondly, you need Timothy Armes's LR2/Mogrify Lightroom plugin. This puts a nice Lightroom-style interface onto the ImageMagick application. What this means is that a number of the common ImageMagick commands, like watermarking, text overlays, borders, are available in the Lightroom export dialogue box just like they were original Lightroom features. Cool! Here's the download link.

So, once you've installed ImageMagick on your PC, install the LR2/Mogrify plugin into Lightroom. When that's done, you'll see some new options at the bottom left of your LR export dialogue. Tell LR where the ImageMagick app is installed on your PC and you're sorted.

It took me about 15 mins to install, configure, and export my first watermarked bordered pic. And, being a part of LR, you can still export to Smugmug, Flickr etc as usual, but with watermarking, borders, text overlays etc etc.

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So automatically now upon export, no need to go to Photoshop to add your favorite watermark then re-export.
Here is the sample and also a teaser for the Russel & Diane Wedding pictures...