How To: Copyright Signature Watermark On Lightroom 2 Using Mogrify Plugin

This tutorial is for those who are still using Lightroom 2. If you have Lightroom 3, please go to this tutorial

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I have been getting some question from my friends and reader on how to put a signature on your photos with Lightroom. Before knowing this technique, I used Photoshop to manually embed signature on lightroom one by one. Now with Lightroom, we can automate the process to watermark all your pictures in one go. Now lets get to this.

What do we need?

1. Adobe Lightroom
2. Mogrify Plugin
3. ImageMagick
4. Photos! Lots of em!

Now that we have all that, what should we do?

Lets do another step by step tutorial.

Assumption: You already processed your photos and have them ready to be exported through Lightroom. And you have already set up the mogrify configuration by following these steps

Step 1: Select (one or more) Pictures that you wanted to be watermarked, and click export

The free trial version of mogrify plugin only supports 10 exports at one go. Donating to the plugin will break that limitation forever. You can donate any amount of money you think is appropriate to the creator

You will notice the newly added options to lightroom export module. Click on the "Text Annotation 1" to summon the panel on the right. Of course you can add more than one texts annotation. Even graphical watermarks.

and… click export :p

Step 2: Check out your newly exported photos on your export folder

What? That was it? No more steps? Yes, that is all the steps you need to put signatures into your posts.

example of obnoxious gigantic watermarking that you should not do. No matter how great the photo is, people will get annoyed.

Thats it for now folks! Until next time!

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