Adding a watermark is probably the best way to protect your online photos. It wont' stop people from using them, but at least they'll have your name on them wherever they go.

You can easily apply watermarks to your photos with Fast Watermark. The program doesn't require installation, so just unzip the contents of the file into any folder and you're good to go. Fast Watermark's interface has two main areas: one to design the watermark in itself and the other one to select the pictures you want to apply it to. The whole process is really easy and shouldn't take you more than a couple of minutes.

That said, the truth is that Fast Watermarks lacks certain options you find in other similar applications: for example, you can only use text (and not graphics). Also, there is no support for transparency effects or shadows. Finally, I didn't like the wat Fast Watermark handles images: it doesn't have a zoom tool and doesn't resize images properly either.

Fast Watermark is a quick, simple tool that enables you to add a watermark to your photos, but lacks some advanced tools you find in similar programs.

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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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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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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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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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