Today’s giveaway looks like a pretty decent watermarking tool...
Supports for BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG and TIFF formats, can add text or a logo as a watermark in batch processing, with the ability to customize the font formatting options for text etc...

As Shawn said yes there are tons of free stuff online....

Yes it's true...but why never mention a damn one??

The real question is: what does this GAOTD do more than the following FREE ALTERNATIVES which can in the end justify its price (30 bucks)?

http://www.easy-watermark-studio.com/en/lite-version
http://www.customdworks.com/phHelper.aspx
http://www.cooltweak.com/?lng=en-GB
http://www.bordermaker.nl/en/features
http://www.gphotoshow.com/exif-iptc-watermarker.php
http://www.lujosoft.net/_content/_utilities/WatermarkPro.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/Visual-Watermark-Free.shtml

FREE ONLINE SERVICES:
http://www.watermark-images.com
http://picmarkr.com

Just to mention the best ones I'm aware of...

Waiting for your feedback!!

giovanni  –  13 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+97)

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Pros
*Allows users to add text and/or image watermarks
*Supports batch processing
*Supports JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF images
*You have the option to leave output image format the same as input image format (i.e. no conversion)
*Easy to use and works fast

Cons
*Does not automatically resize watermarks relative to input image size
*Requires .NET Framework 3.5 or higher
*Always starts full screen (annoying!)

Free Alternatives
7 free watermark programs for Windows

Final Verdict
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Ashraf  –  13 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+76)

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I have version 1.3 from an earlier giveaway. I thought I would give this a try to see how the process went. That turned out to be a bad choice. Despite the requirement listing of "Net Framework 3.5 or higher", the installer attempted to install Net Framework 4.0. No questions asked, it just started the install process. Now there is nothing wrong with Net Framework in itself but the installer should have examined my system and seen that my XP SP2 system can not handle Net Framework 4.0. Thank goodness I had my Wondershare Time Freeze activated. After a reboot, my computer seems OK.

So I will have to pass on this off and be happy with my version 1.3. Thank you for your great work GOTD team. As for the publisher, Uconomix Technologies, I will withhold my thank yous due to the rudeness of the installer.

dadams  –  13 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+67)

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Ashraf;

Thank you so very much for your educated and valuable review of this product. Your point about the standard sized watermark was so right on: a watermark that is appropriate on a photo of 200 by 300 pixels would appear like a microdot on a photo of 1200 by 1600. If you have a mix of variious sized photos you can't run them as a batch.

I look forward to your input every day. I don't always agree with your review but I always value it and appreciate your knowledge and experience. Please keep up your good work.

Thanks,

Marty Cordova

Marty  –  13 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+26)

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Thanks for the comments everyone. I am the developer of uMark.

Thanks for the review Ashraf. We are going to add the support for auto sizing watermarks in the next version because some people want it and some want their watermarks to be of fixed size.

As for ability to remove watermarks, yes, no watermark is un-removable. It's just part of the image and a Photoshop pro can remove it. If someone is determined to use your photo he will use it. Adding a watermark just makes the process time consuming. A thief will pass over a watermarked photo in favor of an unmarked one.

Also if you think watermarking is only for professional photographers, think again. Software like uMark is essentially about adding a piece of text or image on a photo so you can do much more with it. Here are 7 uses of a watermark software that we could think of - http://bit.ly/15JO6wW

As for requirement of .Net framework. That comes pre-installed with Vista, 7 and 8. Windows XP is a 13 year old OS. We have to move on. At least MS is still supporting .Net framework for XP.

Yash  –  13 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+23)

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