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Professional Users: Watermarks
Custom watermarks

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.

Make into watermark photo tool

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.

Transparency slider

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.