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Export with watermark

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Hello,

I am in the process of moving to CO Express from Lightroom.

I am used to exporting images to jpeg within LR and be able to add copyright watermark at export. I cannot see this option or find anything that relates to ecporting with watermark. This to me is fundamental and only hope I am missing something.

Replies very welcome.. 😄


Regards
Colin
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  • MrImpulsive
    Just looking at this myself.
    Go to the Output ICON, the cog-wheel, and under "Process Recipe" there is a Tab for Watermark.

    Regards

    Douglas
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  • SFA
    [quote="NN634983496550865042UL" wrote:
    Hello,

    I am in the process of moving to CO Express from Lightroom.

    I am used to exporting images to jpeg within LR and be able to add copyright watermark at export. I cannot see this option or find anything that relates to ecporting with watermark. This to me is fundamental and only hope I am missing something.

    Replies very welcome.. 😄


    Regards
    Colin


    I think you need CO Pro (not Express) to obtain the Watermarking functionality.

    The Help information certainly suggests that Watermarks are a Pro feature.

    Grant Perkins
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  • Permanently deleted user
    If this is true, and you can only watermark in pro, then I am not surprised why PhaseOne lose ground to Adobe LR. This is a fundamental requirement for any image processing application.

    Equation;

    LR £60 inc watermarking
    COPro£200...inc watermarking..

    LR No Brainer!

    Someone somewhere in PhaseOne really have got their head up their proverbial....

    Colin


    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="NN634983496550865042UL" wrote:
    Hello,

    I am in the process of moving to CO Express from Lightroom.

    I am used to exporting images to jpeg within LR and be able to add copyright watermark at export. I cannot see this option or find anything that relates to ecporting with watermark. This to me is fundamental and only hope I am missing something.

    Replies very welcome.. 😄


    Regards
    Colin


    I think you need CO Pro (not Express) to obtain the Watermarking functionality.

    The Help information certainly suggests that Watermarks are a Pro feature.

    Grant Perkins
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  • SFA
    [quote="NN634983496550865042UL" wrote:
    If this is true, and you can only watermark in pro, then I am not surprised why PhaseOne lose ground to Adobe LR. This is a fundamental requirement for any image processing application.

    Equation;

    LR £60 inc watermarking
    COPro£200...inc watermarking..

    LR No Brainer!

    Someone somewhere in PhaseOne really have got their head up their proverbial....

    Colin


    [quote="SFA" wrote:
    [quote="NN634983496550865042UL" wrote:
    Hello,

    I am in the process of moving to CO Express from Lightroom.

    I am used to exporting images to jpeg within LR and be able to add copyright watermark at export. I cannot see this option or find anything that relates to ecporting with watermark. This to me is fundamental and only hope I am missing something.

    Replies very welcome.. 😄


    Regards
    Colin


    I think you need CO Pro (not Express) to obtain the Watermarking functionality.

    The Help information certainly suggests that Watermarks are a Pro feature.

    Grant Perkins


    Hi Colin,

    That depends on what you want most from your software and how much you are prepared to pay for it. Bear in mind that LR, until Adobe chose to slash the price in half a year or so back, was listed at just under £200 iirc. Presumably Adobe feel they had enough financial muscle from all of their products to use LR as a loss leader at the time.

    I could be wrong but the way I see it is that Phase see the Express product as something that will attract mostly non-pro users by its low cost or Pro users who are only seeking the RAW conversion aspects before throwing the results into other production software from which they will produce their deliverable files. The two levels of product have to be differentiated somewhere by something. Would you ask Adobe why Elements does not have all the same functionality as the full version?

    LR full licence in the UK currently costs £102 from the Adobe web site. LR4 upgrade is showing as £60.57 with a little "tax not applicable" message. Not sure what that means. (I will note here that I have just upgraded C1 Pro form 6 to 7 for more or less the same cost plus VAT.)

    However from the front pages one is pointed to in the product information screens most of the links seems to present a Creative Cloud offering rather than an LR4 purchase link. Will LR5 be CC only I wonder? If so it could be interesting to see how the pricing and terms work out.

    I guess there is some information about LR5/CC/Standalone on the site somewhere but so far as my quick look around was concerned nothing obvious that clarified the situation came into view.

    Depending on the price LR on CC could be quite interesting. The ability to turn a cost on and off as required yet have the latest and greatest software available might be very attractive to some, especially if one's important photographic activity is sporadic or seasonal.

    The thing is though that the software costs, LR or C1, are a very small part of the photographic budget for most people unless they invest in a wide selection of tools for different purposes - full Creative Suite, loads of paid for plug-ins, specific applications for specific requirements and so on. Over the years I have bought a lot of stuff I have hardly ever used. In fact some I never even got around to installing. I can't get upset about a price difference that equates to a couple of memory cards or half a UK TV licence if the additional cost of the product variant provides the features I feel I need. There are probably half decent Watermarking programs available free on the 'net. I have one on my smart phone. (Never used of course!) Just make the output and then batch them with the watermark. Or if selective watermark positioning is required I'm sure it must be possible to find something that will do that too.

    My thoughts, for what they are worth.


    Grant Perkins
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Grant,

    I can't argue or disagree with your reply.

    I know, well I guess, that adobe will CC, paid monthly subscription, to ALL their products in time. Hence why I am keen to start using another product that I can use and get to grips with, that has, a much better RAW rendering process. Certainly in the one image LR struggled to bring out the shadows of a horse back lit by the sunset, CO did it with ease.

    I managed to watermark by exporting as PSD into lightroom then exporting it out again with my watermark and jpeg'd.

    No doubt, I will upgrade to Pro...just gotta persuade the wife, that my hobby could.......possibly......one day.......maybe.......pay for it 😉
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  • SFA
    [quote="NN634983496550865042UL" wrote:
    Grant,

    No doubt, I will upgrade to Pro...just gotta persuade the wife, that my hobby could.......possibly......one day.......maybe.......pay for it 😉


    Ah, yes. Well.

    As someone I sometimes communicate with will often say as he discusses buying and selling lenses and bodies, a deal that seems "broadly cash neutral" seems to be a convincing argument.

    So if, speculating a little, you were to compare, say, a full price (for cancel anytime flexibility) CC deal with a C1 Pro purchase that allows 2 flexible installations per licencee and, so far as far as I can tell, some quite sensible version upgrade deals on an approximately 2 year update cycle I would imagine there is not much in costs and there might be a small saving. Plus you are not forced to pay for upgrades you don't need (because you have not been able to persuade your wife that you really really do need a new body, lens, etc.)

    Moreover if one product can do what you might otherwise need 3 or 4 paid for products to achieve you should have some savings in the medium to long term.

    Plan D is simply not to mention it at all ... works for me.

    So far.

    😉

    Grant
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