Ever have to do a simple task such as put a watermark on a picture? This can easily be done in Adobe Photoshop by inserting your image or text that you want to be your watermark over the original image and setting the transparency to whatever you wish. Now one image is simple and easy, but what if you have 500 images in separate folders at different sizes, resolutions and orientations? Now that can be time consuming. Recently I found an excellent way of speeding up this process.
First off, in Photoshop, you can record a certain set of actions, and save them to be repeated automatically later to a batch of files. What I did was record and save my actions for different pictures at different resolutions, so I had different presets for landscape and portrait orientations at different resolutions. Now that this is finished, how will I run these scripts on all of the pictures if they are in different folders and how will I be able run the scripts on specific images based on resolution and orientation? The answer is Bridge.
In Bridge, under the filters panel, there is an option to view the files in a folder and all of its subfolders, so by doing that you are able to view all of the images together without moving them. The filter panel also allows you to sort images by resolution, orientation and much more. So here is how this all comes together. Bridge allows you to perform a Photoshop batch to files you have selected in bridge. So, select the files you want to modify, and in Bridge so up to tools/photoshop/batch and select the action you recorded earlier. It’s that simple! Yes, I know it does take a bit of time to set up, but if you think you can put watermarks on 500 individual pictures manually then be my guest!