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Exporting an image with a watermark

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I am trialling Capture One 9.1, so I'm an absolute novice. I want to place a text watermark on an exported image.

When I click the Export button, along with Location and Naming panels, up comes a Recipe panel containing Basic, File, Adjustments and Metadata tabs. No obvious way to create a watermark there. But when I go to the online Help from the ? button in the Recipe panel, I'm linked to a paragraph where I'm told "The Process Recipe tool has four tabs: Basic, File, Adjustments, Metadata and Watermark".

I'm just a simple guy, but "four tabs" including "Watermark" (that's the fifth by my count)? Where am I going wrong here guys? I just want to add a watermark when I export an image.
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  • HansB
    What is the license you are trialing? I am trialing 'Pro' in v9.1 and working with a 'Pro" in v9.0.3. In both I have all 5 (yes, there are 5, not 4! 😄 ) tabs. The 5th is indeed the watermark.


    Regards,
    Hans
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="HansB" wrote:
    What is the license you are trialing? I am trialing 'Pro' in v9.1 and working with a 'Pro" in v9.0.3. In both I have all 5 (yes, there are 5, not 4! 😄 ) tabs. The 5th is indeed the watermark.

    Thanks for your reply. I'm using 9.1 Pro, but I definitely don't have the Watermark tab.
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  • RichardT
    Are you looking at the Export Image dialog or the Process Recipe tool under the Output tab?

    It is the Process Recipe tool that has the 5 tabs including Watermark.

    The Export Images dialog only has 4 tabs.

    (based on my Windows version of V9.1).

    Richard
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="RichardT" wrote:
    The Export Images dialog only has 4 tabs.

    Thanks Richard, I realise that but that's my problem. I'm clicking the Export button (as I want to export an image) but that does not present a Watermark tab. How, then, do I add a watermark to an image on export? I'm further confused by the help text that tells me I can expect to see a Watermark tab.
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  • RichardT
    The Export dialog is a sub-set of the facilities in the Process Recipe tool. Both can be used to export files.

    To be able to add a watermark to exported files, you need to use the Process Recipe tool.

    See:




    Richard
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="RichardT" wrote:
    To be able to add a watermark to exported files, you need to use the Process Recipe tool.

    Thanks Richard, I'll check it out.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="W.W. Webster" wrote:
    Thanks Richard, I'll check it out.

    Shucks. That placed the watermark on every image in the folder. 🤓

    This is nuts. I only want it on the one exported image file, not permanently etched onto every image in that folder. Now I can't get rid of it. Any help appreciated.
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  • RichardT
    [quote="W.W. Webster" wrote:
    [quote="W.W. Webster" wrote:
    Thanks Richard, I'll check it out.

    Shucks. That placed the watermark on every image in the folder. 🤓

    This is nuts. I only want it on the one exported image file, not permanently etched onto every image in that folder. Now I can't get rid of it. Any help appreciated.


    Capture One does not change the original image files. When you have a recipe selected, it changes the way that the images appears inside Capture One as well as in any exported files.

    To stop the watermark being displayed in Capture One, either set the watermark Kind back to 'None' in the recipe you changed, or just select a different recipe.

    Richard
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  • Rikhy Ray
    Just duplicate the " with watermark" recipe and remove watermark in the "kind" tab, so you can have both options. That`s the way I do it - according to what i need selecting the recipe before export
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  • SFA
    You can also set the watermark OPACITY to 0 for normal use of a process recipe and simply increase it to your preferred level when you want to use it.

    Given that iit is an overlay with some intelligent application of the scaling applied tere may be a processing overhead for this approach but if there is I have not noticed anything obvious with my files.

    HTH.


    Grant
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="RichardT" wrote:
    To stop the watermark being displayed in Capture One, either set the watermark Kind back to 'None' in the recipe you changed, or just select a different recipe.

    [quote="electrotimba" wrote:
    Just duplicate the " with watermark" recipe and remove watermark in the "kind" tab, so you can have both options. That`s the way I do it - according to what i need selecting the recipe before export

    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    You can also set the watermark OPACITY to 0 for normal use of a process recipe and simply increase it to your preferred level when you want to use it.

    Thanks for these suggestions - I've tried them all and they all 'work'. However, what I might do is set up an 'empty' recipe, if that is possible, or at least one that has no watermark, that I can always default or revert back to.

    However, I thought recipes are applied only to images selected in the browser. I had only selected one image, but all the images in the folder show the watermark. Is that a bug?

    I know I need to get Lightroom thinking out of my head but, when I export an image in LR, it never goes and places watermarks over other images in my catalogue - just on the the exported image file(s). The way Capture One appears to go about applying watermarks is doing my head in!
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  • SFA
    [quote="W.W. Webster" wrote:
    [quote="RichardT" wrote:
    The way Capture One appears to go about applying watermarks is doing my head in!


    It's not applying them via the edit files - it is just displaying them to you in real time. A sort of overlay if you will.

    If and when you process/export the image the watermark will be applied to the resulting file.

    The reason it display them over all files is simply to save time since most often people are likely to be producing batches so seeing how the watermark, as defined in the active recipe, works for each image is a likely requirement. It would be frustrating to have to wait for each one to be recalculated (as it's an overlay) every time one changed the selected image.

    And yes, you may find great benefit from going with the C1 flow rather than fighting it to make it something else! I was fortunate in that I had previously drifted away from LR to another application some time before I tried C1 and that application and Capture One had (and still have) many similarities of operation with which I am comfortable. I somehow doubt I would be entirely happy with LR if I tried it now.


    HTH.


    Grant
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