Though you could make something like this completely in ImageMagick if you desired.

You’ll probably want to create your watermark using a graphics editing program with a GUI. I have gone for a grey background at 50% opacity with white text at 100% opacity on top. The style of your watermark is obviously completely up to you. With the background the watermark is easily visible no matter what colour background the image has. Below you can see an example showing plain text watermarks in white and black versus a watermark incorporating a background. Further, what if the watermark is positioned over an area of a photo that contains both light and dark areas – only parts of the watermark would be visible.įor this reason, it makes sense to me to use a watermark with a background. A white watermark will show up well in a dark photo, but will be hidden in a bright photo. Designing your watermarkĪssuming that you’re going to be automatically applying the watermark to photos, it is important to think about the tones being used in the watermark. But maybe I will cover that aspect in a future article.įirst let’s take a look at adding a watermark that covers up part of the image, the standard style watermark that you’ll see on photos. I won’t go into detail on the image resizing in this article, as I have a feeling the article will already be quite long. I use it on my photography website so I can upload original size photos, then the images can automatically be resized and have a watermark added. ImageMagick is a command line program, which is perfect for this job as that means it can scripted. In this article I’ll share a couple of ways to use ImageMagick to add a watermark to a photo.

Display pic in linux imagemagick