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Hey, all! I am toying around with watermarking my images on my website and I am a little confused about the Watermark settings. We have them in various places and I am just trying to understand what their role is and what is really needed. What really controls when a watermark is generated?
1. Publisher Plug-in: There is an option to enable watermarking and select which one
NOTE - The setting to push metadata without uploading photos in Publisher is UNchecked
2. Publisher Album: On the Features tab, there is a setting for Watermarks To Apply
There is also an option on whether to apply watermarks to thumbnails
3. Gallery Template: there is a setting under Output Settings -> Image Renditions for watermarks
Also under Appearance -> Thumbnail Grid there is a watermark option for thumbnails
I can configure the Gallery Template to apply a watermark on Output Settings and configure my Publisher Album to use that specific template. However, watermarks are not imprinted on the images until I change the Publisher Album watermark setting from Managed by Lightroom to the specific watermark I configured in the template and re-publish. Is this the expected behavior or should I be able to control watermarking exclusively through the Gallery Template?
Sorry for the confusion!
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Hi, the watermarking for Published galleries are entirely controlled within Publisher. If your album settings are left as 'managed by Lightroom' then the Publisher instance's setting is applied. If set to a specific watermark within an album setting, then that watermark will be applied.
(Taking this further, there is an undocumented way of controlling watermarks per rendition, by manually adding <watermark> tags to a template's setup.xml file, like this:
<rendition>
<maxHeight>1200</maxHeight>
<maxWidth>1200</maxWidth>
<renditionPath>photos-with-watermark</renditionPath>
<resizeType>wh</resizeType>
<quality>0.69</quality>
<colorSpace>AdobeRGB</colorSpace>
<watermark>My Custom Watermark</watermark>
</rendition>)
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