Protect your images in style.
Pro subscribers can display their images on SmugMug, big and beautiful, and place custom watermarks to protect them.
No worries, watermarks will not appear on prints ordered through SmugMug.
I want one!
First: make a JPEG, GIF or PNG image of your watermark. (PNGs with transparency are the new hotness.) Here's a step-by-step tutorial.
Add your watermark image to a SmugMug gallery (an unlisted one, if you like). You may need to use the standard, olde faithful uploader.
Choose Make into Watermark from the Photo Tools Menu.
You'll see a place to name it and select its placement on your images. Use the (ever-so-cool) slider to set its transparency.
Go crazy. Create as many exotic watermarks as you'd like. Edit & delete watermarks in your Control Panel under the Pros tab.
Tip: Move your watermarks to an unlisted gallery called "Watermarks."
Ok, how to apply them?
Do it automagically: Make it easy and let SmugMug watermark your photos as they're added. Go to Customize Gallery, choose yes for watermarking, and choose which watermark you'd like applied.
Add or remove anytime, in bulk: Choose watermarking from the Photo Tools Menu. Then select thumbnails, choose add or remove, and click watermark.
Gotcha: Block access to your originals. We don't watermark originals because we use them to make prints.
Gotcha: We do not watermark photos whose longest side is equal to or less than 800 pixels because a display copy and the original are the same image.
Managing watermarks
After you create a custom watermark, you'll find you can tweak or delete watermarks in your Control Panel. Click the Control Panel button on your SmugMug homepage and look for the Pros tab.
Changes will only affect photos you watermark in the future, not photos you've already watermarked. If you want the changes to take effect on those photos, you'll need to apply the updated watermark to them.
Gotcha: We use your watermarking image every time you apply that watermark to your photos, so please don't delete it or hide it.