To create a watermark in Capture One, go to the Export icon and choose the Watermark option. You can add both text watermarks and graphics-based watermarks. You can create a watermark using the system’s fonts, certain tokens, or import a ready-made graphics file or image with a transparent background. Capture One is compatible with all common graphics and image file formats that support transparency for use as a watermark. Capture One allows you to use tokens when creating a watermark on images. This option greatly simplifies the task of adding a high-quality text-based watermark to images during processing.
N.B. < > : " / \ ? * are all considered illegal characters and cannot be used when creating a watermark
To be able to see your watermark in the viewer, you will need to activate Proofing mode from the View menu:
You can also add the Proofing option to your toolbar if you customize it:
Adding a text watermark
- Go to the Export icon.
- Choose the Watermark tool.
- Select Text from the Kind drop-down menu and choose from the following:
- Enter the text required for the watermark in the Text field, or ...
- Click on the adjacent (…) icon to open the Watermark Tokens Manager dialog box. Select a token or collection of tokens from the list displayed, from the Group or Presets drop-down menus, or add a combination of text and tokens, and select OK.
The watermark will be visible on the image in the viewer in the Export window. If you want to see the watermark in the main viewer (export tab in main UI) please be sure that Recipe Proofing is enabled.
- In the second Kind drop-down, you can select Points to ensure that the watermark follows the crop proportionally
- Click on the (...) icon next to the Font field to adjust the font and color of the text.
- Adjust Opacity and Scale sliders to the desired level.
- Adjust the placement of the watermark using the Horizontal and Vertical sliders or by clicking on the Hand cursor tool (hand icon).
- Once the watermark is created, it will be saved as part of the recipe highlighted in the Export Recipe tool, so it can be reused whenever it is required.
Adding a graphics-based watermark
- Go to the Export icon.
- Choose the Watermark tool.
- In the Kind drop-down menu, select Image.
- Drag and drop a pre-prepared image file with a transparent background in the Drop image here field in the tool or browse for the file by clicking on the File Action menu (...) icon, which is below the Drop image field.
- The watermark will be visible on the image in the viewer in the Export window. If you want to see the watermark in the main viewer (export tab in main UI) please be sure that Recipe Proofing is enabled.
- Adjust Opacity and Scale sliders to the desired level.
- Adjust the placement of the watermark using the Horizontal and Vertical sliders or by selecting the Hand cursor tool (hand icon).
Removing watermarks
You can remove any text- or graphics-based watermarks from images by selecting to display None from the Kind drop-down menu.
- Go to the Export icon.
- Select the Watermark tool.
- In the Kind drop-down menu, select None. Images are cleared of any text- or graphics-based watermarks.
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The user guide is out of date with regard to the watermarking tool. It is no longer located on the export recipes menus. There is only an option to add the watermark tool to the exposures group. The new functionality makes it very difficult to view what the actual watermark will look like with out going back and forth from exposure to export menus. Am I missing something?
It is still in the export recipes menu, it is third from the bottom, above metadata and summary.
I'm wondering why the watermark is not allowed to go smaller than 25%, it's too big for my images and draws too much attention and way to big.
When exporting a group of photos (JPG) in a batch with the photos cropped differently (as needed) is there a way to make the watermark proportional to the photos exported automatically? If I position the watermark for one photo, in other photo in the same batch the watermark will be too big or can not see it.depending on the crop applied to a photo. Please don't tell me I need to adjust the watermark for each photo in an export batch!!!!
Thanks..
Will there be an answer from Capture One regarding the question of "FirstName LastName" regarding the batch processing? I have the same problem and it cuts the watermark off, when some of the photos are cropped in. There need to be a solution...
thanks.
I just spent 8 hours editing horse show images. 80% of that time was spent exporting each image individually because I need to resize the watermark and have it placed in a different location on each image. While I am working next to a photographer that just uses a brush layer to add hers anywhere on the image, and in a uniform size while editing then exports them all at once. and she is done in a few hours. Would be nice to have something changed in the next version because I can not take this long every day of a show.
To make the watermark have the same size I have made an export setting that downsize my image to eg. 3000 px i width - then the watermark is the same size but I would also like to have a dynamic scaling
As originally installed, Capture One may not be displaying these options. If you're not seeing anything like the Watermark options in this article, do the following:
Go to the Export page as described. Go down to the outermost, lower left corner of the Export screen and click on "Show all options." This will open up a bunch of options, including the Watermark option described in the article.
⚠️❌ "You can add both text watermarks and graphics-based watermarks" => WRONG!
This is currently text XOR image, both can't be applied.
Please vote this feature request: https://captureone.ideas.aha.io/ideas/FR-I-862
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