Once you have added the images to watermark and have created the watermarks, you can start the watermarking process by clicking the Start Watermarking button.

Upon clicking the Start watermarking button, Output Options window will appear where you can specify various options for saving the watermarked images.

Output Location

You can select a folder where watermarked images will be saved.

Note that uMark never overwrites the original images because a watermark once added cannot be removed without damaging the underlying image. So uMark always prompts you to save images in a separate folder.

Output Format

uMark lets you select the output type of the watermarked images. You can either choose for the same type as the source hence no type conversion will happen or you can specify JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG or TIFF format as output format.

If you are saving the image in the JPG format then you can specify the compression level or the quality of the image. Saving them with 100% will create huge sized images. We recommend saving the images with 80% quality. This won’t have any visible effect on the quality of the image but will save a lot in terms of the image size.

uMark can also rename the output images. By default output images will have same name as the input image, but you can choose to rename them and can also make use of some predefined macros.

Following renaming macros are available –

[O] – Original filename

[#] – Single digit counter (1,2,3,4….)

[##] – Two digit counter (01,02,03,04….)

[###] – Three digit counter (001,002,003,004….)

[####] – Four digit counter (0001,0002,0003,0004….)

[D] – Current Date (in mmddyyyy format)

[DD] – Current Date (in ddmmyyyy format)

The renaming option takes care of the file extension so you just need to specify the macro and custom text.

For example a renaming pattern of Sample_[##] will output the files as Sample_01.xxx, Sample_02.xxx, Sample_03.xxx etc.

Resize Watermarked Images

This option lets you create thumbnails of the output images or resize them as you may wish. There are two primary options available for resizing, proportionate and absolute. Proportionate resizing will resize the images in percentage terms i.e. 50%, 75% etc. Absolute resizing will resize the images as per the pixel values provided by user.

Don’t enlarge Smaller Images

When you check this text box, smaller images will not be enlarged. Say you specify images to be resized to 300X300 pixels and check this box, then all the images bigger than this value will be scaled down but smaller images will not be enlarged.

Preserve Aspect Ratio

If you wish to resize the images in proportion to their height and width then you need to select this option. If you have selected absolute resizing and haven’t checked this option then you must specify both height and width for the resized images. If this option is checked then you need to specify wither height or width for absolute resizing and the other value will be calculated automatically by uMark.

Set as Default

Use this option to save the chosen settings as default settings. If you set a settings as default, next time when you run uMark those settings will be selected automatically.