Creating a simple Watermark in PS

I am trying to create a simple watermark over a folder full of JPGs. But I need the FILE NAME to be the watermark. (The end result will be a CS2 PDF Presentation, and PDF Presentation changes the files names to PAGE NUMBERS. Thus I lose the file name of each image.

I have tried WEB GALLERY>Security/Watermark, but it does not seem to actually apply the FILE NAME watermark. I have read multiple questions on Adobe Forum about this problem too.

Does anyone know how to do this? I just want the JPG file name overprinted in white over the top of each image.

Thank you.

[NorbertBissinger]

This Script will do it.
Select the script fully and do a Edit-Copy to put it on the Clip Board. Do not alter the line structure.
Open Note Pad and past it into Note Pad.
Select for "Save As Type" All Files. Give it a Name: File Name would be OK
Now. and this is important. After the file name type .js (no space between Filename.
Just like this: File Name.js.
Save in: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Presets\Scripts. Photoshop must be CS or CS2 or 7 with a download of the scripting Plug In.
Photoshop musat be closed to do this.
You can change the Color and the size of the Text just overwrite the parameters. I have R255, G255,B255 which is white, and 20 for the size.
You can write an action and then Batch. Come back if you want to know how.
The script will be on the next post because it might not fit in this one.

[NorbertBissinger]

// this script is a variation of the script addTimeStamp.js that is installed with PS7


if ( documents.length > 0 )
{
var originalRulerUnits = preferences.rulerUnits;
preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PERCENT;

try
{
var docRef = activeDocument;

// Now create a text layer at the front
var myLayerRef = docRef.artLayers.add();
myLayerRef.kind = LayerKind.TEXT;
myLayerRef.name = "Filename";

var myTextRef = myLayerRef.textItem;

di=(docRef.name).indexOf(".");

// fname = file name only
fname = (docRef.name).substr(0, di);

myTextRef.contents = fname;

// Set font size in Points
myTextRef.size =20;

//Set font - use GetFontName.js to get exact name

myTextRef.font = "Arial";

//Set text colour in RGB values

var newColor = new SolidColor();
newColor.rgb.red = 255;
newColor.rgb.green = 255;
newColor.rgb.blue = 255;
myTextRef.color = newColor;


// off set the text to be in the bottom left corner - percentages from left first, then from top.
myTextRef.position = new Array( 2, 99);
}
catch( e )
{
// An error occurred. Restore ruler units, then propagate the error back
// to the user
preferences.rulerUnits = originalRulerUnits;
throw e;
}

// Everything went Ok. Restore ruler units
preferences.rulerUnits = originalRulerUnits;
}
else
{
alert( "You must have a document open to add the filename!" );
}

[JoeMikos]

"drop watermark" from lajdesignsw.com and it's rather idiot proof. I know cuz i use it!

sweeeeeet


joe
p.s. norbert WTF is that! we're photographers...speak english or atleast fstops [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[NorbertBissinger]

This is way behond F stops. It is like the Circle of the least confusion which is seldom understood.
This is Photographic talk.
Putting the file name and other info directly on a picture is very often required and only a Script can do that.
One can do this for hundreds of images automatically while one takes more pictures or goes to lunch.

Here is a sample:
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...tZvcdkpODuGv50

Norbert and Joe,

Thanks. I'll try it in the morning. In a dream world, there would be a Script or Action that would add, say, an eighth of an inch, or twenty pixels, or whatever, in white, of Canvas Area, below each image, and then would type in the FILE NAME in that white area, so that the FileName did not invade and mess with the actual picture. Nothing nastier looking than a watermark.

Thank you.

PS. Why does that feature not work in CS2? The Web Gallery>Security>Watermark feature. The action runs, but no file name appears on top of the image. Is it a bug?

[NorbertBissinger]

No problem at all to do this.
Give a few minutes and I will post a sample.