Tuesday, 22 December 2009
I was asked about an easy way of adding a watermark/copyright signature to images processed in GIMP by the lovely Kimangeline a couple of days ago and so I thought I’d add it as a ‘How To’.
The end result of which will give us something like below:
In order to make this fairly easy, we’re going to need a script to automate some of the process for us. I won’t go too much into scripts here for now but here’s what we need to do:
- Close GIMP down if you have it open.
- Go to This Webpage
- Download the watermark.scm file from the webpage (it’s near the top) and save it to the scripts folder in the GIMP area and within your ‘My Documents’ on your PC. Here’s the exact file path as it appears on my PC running Vista Ross/.gimp-2.6/scripts
Note:The file does not need to be unzipped, converted or changed in any way. It is a script file and simply needs to be copied and pasted from the internet to the correct folder on your PC
- Now start up GIMP and you should see a new menu selection on the main image window called Script-Fu. It should be residing between Filters and Windows.
- If all is well, when you click on Script-Fu it should drop down with My Scripts and in there should be watermark.
Using the script itself is pretty simple and self explanatory. You simply enter the text that you’d like to add, select your font, it’s size, it’s location and it’s opacity before clicking OK.
If everything has gone to plan, you should now have a watermarked image. Well done you! :))
