How hard would it be to implement a watermarking option into EtoGal? I have had some people saving my portfolio work, and I'm sure its only a matter of time until it starts popping up on another persons website.
I have the ImageMagick code figured out, I just don't know the best way to implement it into the gallery.
I had this in mind:
$ convert my-watermark.jpg -fill '#E8E8E8' miff:- | composite -compose bumpmap -gravity center - my_pic.jpg my_watermarked_pic.jpg
Thanks,
Matt
Watermark all pictures?
Started by
BSDeality
, Nov 15 2006 10:12 PM
4 replies to this topic
#2
mikef
-
- Member
-
- 1,551 posts
Loves Etomite Forums!
Posted 15 November 2006 - 10:46 PM
Not a solution I'd use, as it adds new dependencies on the server. (Probably wouldn't work on a Windows server for a start!) If I was to do it, I'd try to use the GD library from PHP.
I don't have time to do anything major on the code at present, as i'm working on some new sites for customers which need the time I have to spare on this sort of thing, and may need other changes to the EtoGal core.
It may get done sometime!
(Working out the gd library manipulations probably isn't that hard; its sorting out when to do it, putting the selection code into the administration code and forms, what to do about images that are already there, does the unmodified image need to be kept ... and testing it all on a range of environments)
I don't have time to do anything major on the code at present, as i'm working on some new sites for customers which need the time I have to spare on this sort of thing, and may need other changes to the EtoGal core.
It may get done sometime!
(Working out the gd library manipulations probably isn't that hard; its sorting out when to do it, putting the selection code into the administration code and forms, what to do about images that are already there, does the unmodified image need to be kept ... and testing it all on a range of environments)
#3
Dean
-
- Admin
-
- 4,787 posts
Loves Etomite Forums!
Posted 15 November 2006 - 10:53 PM
Personally, if you are worried about people ripping your images, then watermark them on your pc before uploading - that way, they never have a chance to get their hands on the un-watermarked versions, which having a script do it on the fly would potentially still allow them to access...
food for though
food for though
#4
BSDeality
-
- Member
- 17 posts
Etomite Forum Newbie
Posted 15 November 2006 - 10:58 PM
I had forgotten about windoze servers. I had unix in mind, and most hosting companys would have ImageMagick installed, I know mine does.
Personally I would only be interested in storing watermarked images in my gallery.
Temporarily I will just use a script to search through each directory and pipe in the above code.
Personally I would only be interested in storing watermarked images in my gallery.
Temporarily I will just use a script to search through each directory and pipe in the above code.
#5
mikef
-
- Member
-
- 1,551 posts
Loves Etomite Forums!
Posted 15 November 2006 - 11:09 PM
'proper' hosts probably do, but i have one site implemented on an ISP webspace which is very limited (and i think one of the other hosts I know is in use doesn't have much pre-installed but would probably add it, for a fee). I don't think i'm likely to forget Windows servers after the time i wasted on one this summer, trying to get Etomite running!I had forgotten about windoze servers. I had unix in mind, and most hosting companys would have ImageMagick installed, I know mine does.
Personally I would only be interested in storing watermarked images in my gallery.
Temporarily I will just use a script to search through each directory and pipe in the above code.
EtoGal gets used for different things, and while I think most would either always want watermarks, or never, if someone wanted to add a shop selling the images (for example) they'd want both available.
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
