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Apply Watermarks - for Images and Videos

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User Menu Settings > Custom Configuration > Digital Rights Management 


If Digital Rights Management is enabled (see below) and at least one watermark image file is uploaded, you can watermark your assets.

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You can set different watermarks for different Portals, Style Guides or to appear on files in the Main Library.
You can watermark individual files or multiple files at once.

Watermarks display on the preview of the file and stay even after they were downloaded. 

Note: For videos, only PNG files can be used as watermarks.


There is a setting which automatically inserts values from the Copyright fields as the Watermark if no Watermark is applied.


How to apply a Watermark to an asset

  1. Open the asset's Information Page. 
  2. Scroll to the Digital Rights Management section.
  3. Select the watermark you want to use from the drop-down list in the Watermark field.
    Once you have selected a watermark, the For (Image Location) field is displayed.

    Possible locations are the Main library and any Portals or Style Guides you have created.

    Note: All available Portals and Style Guides are listed, regardless of whether they currently contain the asset. If the asset is added to the selected Portal later, it is still watermarked.

  4. Select a location from the drop-down list and click Add.
    The selected combination of watermark and location is displayed.
  5. Define additional watermark location combinations, if necessary.
    You can use one watermark for multiple locations. However, it may be useful to use different watermarks for different locations (e.g. different Portals).
  6. Click the x-icon to remove a watermark from an asset.

How to add Watermarks in bulk 

Select the files you want to watermark.

  1. Click the Edit Metadata icon in the tool list.

    The Edit Content dialog is displayed.

  2. If necessary, scroll down to the Digital Rights Management section.
    Continue as described above under points 3 - 5.                

 

 

Please note:

  • Watermarks are only visible to Consumers and anonymous visitors of a public Portal and private Portal / Style Guide. The watermark shows on the preview screen of a file and when viewing the downloaded file. They are not visible on the files thumbnail overview.
  • See the following article on how to view what Consumer-level users are seeing (to test the preview of the watermark). If you are using a public Portal, you can also open the Portal in a private browser tab to check if the watermark will be displayed.
  • Watermarks will not appear for videos via mobile iOS & landscape view on your mobile device or in detailed view.

 

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