I have been doing it in Photoshop in the past but I find it much easier to do in Lightroom because it's less time consuming. If you use Lightroom I would recommend the LR/Mogrify 2 plugin, it's a lot better than the inbuilt one.

I would also recommend Lightroom for managing and editing photos in general, if you have never needed Photoshop until now then Lightroom should be enough. Adobe are moving to a only subscription model for their software so it can get expensive if you don't use them regularly. I think Lightroom is the only software Adobe has that they still sell as a standalone software.

That's bad!  It's supposed to be open source, not a shareware...

I've added 4 other freewares to the list (see above).  <span class="bold">uMark</span> seems to be a good one.

I love the way you organise your posts, so much clarity and ease of reading, just like your reply to my birthday question thread :)

PS - Hi Sage :)

Thanks!  :-)

I agree. I love that you organized everything with so much information and it was very easy to follow and check out everything and you included so much and pictures!! . Thank you!!

I played around with making a batch file and that definitely can work. Though I will need to install Photoshop at work too. I am going to check out the others tomorrow.

Thank you everyone that took the time away from gaming/forums/life to help me with this. The time you are going to save me will be huge!!!


Hey Tarnicus -Yes I know work ended for the weekend hours ago and yet I am still messing around with work related stuff. =P I think I might need a work intervention. I will be checking in on our chat before bed.

You've done nothing but work since you started that job! Your new boss better give you at least one gold star for your efforts, preferably made from real gold :P

I would actually suggest learning how to program if you don't already know how. Python is a good first language to learn, as it is easy for beginners and has many useful libraries. (For the specific task you have, the Python Imagiing Library (PIL), or rather its friendly fork Pillow, will do just what you need.)

The advantage of writing the program is that, once it has been written, you can add the text to all new photos added to the website. If you need to change the text (and you have kept the unmodified photos), all you need to do is change the text in your program and run it again.

Learning to program will help a lot with repetitive tasks like this: Instead of doing it yourself, have the computer do it!

Edit: As a side note, I used Python to create my own avatar. The libraries I used were Numpy, Pillow and Cython. For what you need to do, Pillow is the only library you need, as it can handle adding text to images and saving them in the format of your choice. Then again, you may later need to automate some other repetitive task later.

Edit 2: Someone actually has written Python code to do just what you need.
https://gist.github.com/umrashrf/8616550

I have tons of images to watermark.I do this using this software called - Mass Watermark it can bulk watermark and resize pics.There are inbuilt text/logo placement options like top left,bottom right etc.Its very easy to use.Take a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKviwY-4tBY

here is the link to the software's site http://www.masswatermark.com/