Most photo editors let you add text notations to your pictures, but if you don’t feel like fiddling with a complicated tool just to add some text, then use Digi-Annotator.

This simple photo app enables you to annotate photos in a very easy way. All you have to do is load a picture and use the program's context menu (by right clicking with your mouse) to add and edit any text string on the image. You can freely drag the text to any position on the picture, and also customize the text features: text font, size, color and other special effects. Also, Digi-Annotator includes a few basic editing tools to rotate, flip, sharpen or resample your photo.

On the downside, I found the program quite confusing to use. The only way to open an image is by dragging and dropping it on its interface. There are no standard menus or toolbars, only the context menu. And finally, I missed having a bit more options to customize my text: strokes, shadows, embossing and the likes.

With Digi-Annotator you can easily annotate any photo in just a few clicks, though I you want extended features you should look elsewhere.

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Watermark Master is a multifunctional video editor primarily intended for conversion of video and image files with adding any kinds of watermarks to them. Clear interface and the presence of Wizard make the program easy-to-operate even for people who do not possess any special knowledge.

The program possesses all necessary functions for editing of videos and images: a broad set of filters (including Deinterlace), 6 resampling algorithms, color adjustment feature, ability to flip, rotate, sharpen or soften image, ability to set timelines and many others. It also includes Grabber function (creation of thumbnails and image galleries of video files) and ability to process files as they are added to folder (so-called Watch Folder function).

The application enables creation of all imaginable kinds of watermarks: text, image, blur area, rectangle, video, animated GIF, creeping line and audio. Display time can be assigned for any kind of watermark. In the Preview area all watermarks can be displayed either taking or without taking their display time into account.

Watermark Master is optimized for batch processing (processing a great number of files per one pass). A folder with files can be added as source file. Files in the folder can be processed by mask here; subfolders recursive processing can be activated in case of need.

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Nowadays, people like to deliver their digital photos and pictures onto the Internet, and share them with their relatives, friends. Many enterprises resort to the Internet to demonstrate and promote their products.

However, duplication and dissemination of products'pictures are very easy, and many pictures are spread without authorization. In order to protect these pictures not to be used illegally, the pictures are watermarked before uploaded onto the Internet, which serves as an effective method.

Usually, we resort to specialized picture processing tool to complete the watermark work such as Photoshop. However, it's really too much work to do if you have a multitude of pictures to watermark, and it's also very inconvenient as you have to know some specialized knowledge. So, for your consideration, as a specialized batch add Watermarks software is designed for you - Batch Watermark Creator.

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Watermarks are a smart way to identify your pictures, add some copyright information to them and also discourage people from using them improperly.

With WinWatermark you can easily add those watermarks to your pictures before publishing them online. The program supports working with a single image as well as processing photos in batches. Watermarks can be either small graphics or text snippets, both of them with many customization options as for their transparency level, location on the picture, size and other elements.

Besides watermarks, WinWatermark also enables you to add a frame to your photos, again just with one picture or working with many of them at the same time. Frames also have a wide range of configuration options to make them look just the way you want.

WinWatermark can save resulting images in different graphic formats with adjustable quality values. Also, I specially liked the possibility to save watermarks for later use.

If you're looking for a complete watermark application with which to identify your pictures, WinWatermark is probably one of the best ones you can find.

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DropWatermark is an application that allows you to watermark your images quickly and easily. You just configure your watermark and then can create new watermarked images quickly. Your images will be ready to go on the internet and show off your talents.

• Configure your watermark
• Replace the image or make a new image
• Mark an image on an image
• Preview the image using interactive mode
• Include a border around your watermark
• Have your watermark scale to your images
• Rotate your images in interactive mode
• Mark entire folders at a time
• Insert EXIF/IPTC (meta) into watermarks
• Insert file data (such as file size) into watermarks
• Scale your images down
• Create thumbnails

Download DropWaterMark 4.0.4 in Softonic

Are you worried that your precious images are being copied from the internet. With 1-More Watermarker, you can insert text or an emblem to any part of your images. You can choose the intensity, font, color etc. as you wish, to mark your pictures with your identifying signature.

The batch process feature allows to effectively apply watermarks to large number of images. It can also be set to semi-automatic, allowing modifications on individual images. As regards control over watermarks, there can be few more obliging programs. You can set the exact positioning of watermarks (text or graphics) by setting the distance to the border from a chosen position. There's also a new method that's been added called "hidden text" which imprints notes into the graphic file although this is not available for JPEG due to compression.

If you're worried about the copyright of your images, then this is an excellent way to protect them.

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AiS Watermark Pictures Protector will help you protect your graphics, photographs, banners, and just about any other image you like from theft. All of your images will be useless to anyone who wants to download them because they will be marked with a watermark or copyright message.

You can add a logo, a trademark, copyright message or a text address to your web page, to distinguish them or add a personal signature to each one. The program supports BMP, GIF, animated GIF, JPG, PNG and several others. You can work with a single file or several at the same time so if you've got a lot of photos to protect, you can do so pretty easily. Just select the image you want to protect, designing the logo you want to include and save the output into a new file.

An easy to use solution for anyone who's been plagued by copyright issues or wants to keep their precious prints in their own domain.

Download AiS Watermark Pictures Protector 3.7.0 in Softonic

PhotoWatermark Professional combines power and ease of use. It uses a mixture of text, graphic and drawing objects of any complexity. Various styles of outline and angled text, gradient or texture fill, emboss, engrave, innershadow, 3D and photo framing render you professional class watermarks. It supports combinations of batch watermarking, converting, resizing, renaming, cropping, rotating, image enhancing, printing and framing.

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EXIF information is some special data that digital cameras store on every picture they take, such as camera model, date and time, time of exposure and other more technical details. Tools like Jpeg Exif Stamper take advantage of this information and use it to create watermarks on images.

The program is mainly intended to work with many files simultaneously, which may be the reason why we found it particularly uncomfortable to edit just one single picture. The interface is not very intuitive and when minimized, it doesn't appear on the taskbar, which makes it even more complicated.

In all, watermarks can be added in a fast and easy way when working with many files at the same time. Too bad you can only include date and time.

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ReaWatermark simplifies the process of creating and applying watermarks to multiple files in multiple folders. It supports a mixture of text, copyright symbols, graphics and drawing watermarks of any complexity. The multi-level transparency setting allows you to choose and preview how your watermark image or text will affect the protected image.

Take a look at what this program features:

• Batch converting
• Intuitive and easy-to-use interface
• Copyright and registered symbols support
• Easy prove your copyright with 100 transparency levels
• One step to process large number of photos of variable size and orientation in multiple folder

Download ReaWatermark 2.1 in Softonic

ImageProtect protect images by add text or image watermark. You can also convert images into Flash movie (SWF), or split a big image into pieces and then combine them by HTML code. Your images will never be reused by content thieves.

ImageProtect supports most image file formats (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF) and batch file import and processing, allowing you to encrypt more than 1,000 images on a single click.

This is what this program has to offer:

Protect images by adding a watermark

ImageProtect can add text or picture wartermark on your picture. Image Protect support tiled feature. Image watermark tiled over the picture. And you can put watermark to any position, Rotate watermark to any degree.

Split the image into pieces

When you split the image into pieces, direct linking to your images from another websites will be impossible thus protecting your website from bandwidth thieves. And if you split big images your page will also load faster.

Protect images by converting to SWF

ImageProtect can convert your images into SWF (Macromedia Flash movies). Images are stored in Flash Movies after protection so that visitors will be unable to save images by right clicking on them. This also prevents images being captured from web browser cache.

Download ImageProtect 1.1.2 in Softonic

Most of today's digital camera photos are saved in JPG files. The date and time at which a photo is taken are stored along with the image in so called EXIF format. Such date and time information can be viewed on a PC once the JPG files are transferred from the digital camera to the PC.

When you make a hardcopy of a digital photo by using a color printer or by sending it to a photo lab, the date and time do not get printed on the hardcopy photo. By using Magitime, the date and time are extracted from the JPG files and superimposed onto the photos. This way when a hardcopy is made from the JPG file, the date and/or time will show up on the photo.

MagiTime is designed to work for JPG photo files( the most popular digital camera output file format) only, it may work for EXIF conformed TIF photo files, but not for photo files of other formats.

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Visual Watermark is a watermarking tool for digital photo protection. It places very strong watermarks no one can remove. Your digital photos will be effectively protected from unauthorized use. It will be very useful for everyone who needs to protect digital pictures.

Protect your pictures. Protect you photos, drawings and other graphics from theft over the entire world. Place watermark on your pictures and previews with this watermarking tool so no one can thief your photos. Share your photos safely! You can protect your images with no worries about file format they are. Visual Watermark supports JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF and BMP!

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uMark is a nifty application for marking images and photos with a copyright text, your company logo or both. Watermarking means protecting the image with a copyright notice or a logo that denotes the origin of the image/photo. Such watermark prevents people from using your images and photos without your consent. If they use it they must use it with the your mark. This is where uMark comes in handy.

It allows you to watermark multiple images in one go. You can save the settings for later use so that you don't have to start all over again every time. uMark automates the task to improve your efficiency. Anybody who shares an image or a photo on the net will find it useful. Graphic designers who need to protect their artwork, individuals who share their family photos online or companies dealing in digital image content will also find an interest in uMark.

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Picture-shark is the first choice for people who want to "stamp" visible logos or text on their image files.Here are some of picture-shark's features:

• Choose transparent color, opacity, position and much more
• Use the "feather"-feature to make the edges between the stamp and the picture smarter
• WYSIWYG preview-mode for all settings
• Support for preserving jpeg-headers

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CopyRightLeft is an image manipulation program oriented toward creating Internet image files. This program will help you add a copyright bar on or under a picture. There is a batch mode to process several files at once. It can also create a list of the selected images in an HTML file.

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ImageXYZ v1.0.1 is a utility to watermark your copyrighted images using single or multi-line text with virtually any font installed on your system. You can specify the font properties (type, size, bold, italic, etc.) and choose the fore color and shadow color of the watermark. The brightness level of the watermark and shadow colors are adjustable as well. The watermark can be located anywhere on the image by using X and Y scrollbars.

The final image can be saved as a bitmap (.bmp), jpeg, (.jpg), tiff (.tiff) or png (.png) image or you can simply copy the image to the clipboard to be pasted into Microsoft Word or any other application capable of accepting pasted images. Image effects can be applied to the original image before and after watermarking. These effects include Rotating the image, flipping horizontally and vertically and applying Embossing, Smoothing, Sharpening, and Diffusing. The picture windows allow for panning of larger images.

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