this program is great...it has a photo shop approach, but only easier.

Yet another program here that will not run on Vista!!! I've been only visiting here for about two months and I've yet to find a program that I both want AND works in Vista. Why don't they post some programs that work in Vista???????????

Software requires .net framework. No mention of this on their web site. Have both 1.1 and 2.0 of .net frame work installed, however the software does not start. Error about incorrectly configured or missing items and to reinstall to resolve. Reinstallation does not resolve. Listing all the requirements is a must. As some can run it, and some can't, clear listings of what is required would help everyone.

No download version on web site. GAOTD visitors will be able to look at the software and try it out, everyone else will have to buy it; poor marketing scheme.

Doesn't work on Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS. :( I really wanted this one to work too.

I downloaded this earlier and just had the chance to test it out. I found it to be very quick to figure out how to use this program and it creates a good watermark on the image.

I like the ease of being able to select one, or more, image(s) to add watermarks to, and as an artist who enjoys sharing images of what I create, it is at least good to know that I have the option of easily adding a watermark to multiple images fast and easy. I have tried this with GIMP and find BIW to be a good easy way to go, I will be keeping it on my computer and give it a thumbs up.

Thanks GOTD

Didn't work, quickly uninstalled

Tried to install on Vista Ultimate 64-bit as did # 28 and got the same message.

Copied from #28 so you don't have to scroll up...
“An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.”

I did send the report to them so they can see what is happening.

Guess that means a thumb down,
Gary

Would of liked to have a watermarking program just to have it for pics I have on the Internet.

This is the third watermarking program I have downloaded from GAOTD. The other two are WinWatermark and Bytescout Watermarking. After working with all three of them, this one is okay, but my favorite is still Bytescout.

For the person who mentioned that with this one you can't see the whole picture, try the "stretch to fit" feature. The whole picture can then be seen, as it is in the screen shots.

confirm #17 - will not run on Vista 64 - too bad, I was looking forward to something like this.

Every time I try to run in I get an unable to contact giveaway of the day servers, try again later. Anyone else getting that?

Honestly, for me, this is kind of useless. I think that you can pretty much watermark images with any image editor available, free or not. For people who need to do batch watermarking, I think this is perfect for them, but for me, I just use PhotoShop (though in PhotoShop, it's not so much adding a watermark as it is just adding regular text).

I also do not like the huge ad on the GUI, really dislike that it isn't easier to use!!!, AND I have many pic folders, in different places in my pc, so the nonsense about having to have "My Pictures" be the only place it will fetch from is ridiculous! HOW OLD IS THIS program??? However, it does have no virus's or spyware, & if the ad for the other product was smaller, I wouldn't mind.

I am tired of the people who complain about complainers, & the original complainers too. Both of u make us read unnecessary bs. Please stop. (Yes, me too. ) lol:)

Why not use faststone it's free and can alot more..
http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

Someone suggested "Watermark Factory". I tried it & find it to be much more user friendly in that, the placement of your mark is 20x easier to do so thats what I'm going to go with. The latest version runs fine on Vista (32 bit) even though at their homepage it doesn't say so. It's cheap enough & once you've designed a watermark to your liking you can do an entire collection in just a few clicks.
Sorry but I was hoping for todays give away to be just a little more user friendly then it turned out to be & I'm not new to these type programs. Maybe I'm just not a patient man. It's been uninstalled in favor of one that took me all of 15 minutes to figure out.

#27 Seth-- where do you see $150.00???
You need glasses dude!!!
I see > The program is available for $24.99, but it will be free for our visitors as a time-limited offer.

Installed ok

Will not run under Windows XP 64bit
I would have really like to have had this app...crap.

Great software! Installed just fine on Vista. Thanks GOTD!
You people whine too much. If you do not have a use for the program then you do not need to comment.

Great software but it does not work on vista 64bit. Works fine on windows xp pro. Pretty user friendly.

Programs ok, not great but ok! Steve, #39, I'd recommend you take that Spyware Doctor detection with a grain of salt! It's wrong! I have Spy Sweeper, Malware Bites (Full Version) & ESET Smart Security. After reading your comment, I target scanned the download & program file with all 3 & it's completely clean.
Spyware Doctor comes from a crooked software company who uses an auto-renew policy to charge your credit card for renewal without your consent. Now that makes them crooks in my book! It's not a good app & reminds me of A-Squared! It has many false positives.

Does not start on Windows 2008... Attempt to write to some memory not allowed to write.

I uninstalled it:(

sounds great! can't wait to try it out. Thanks gaotd :)

The program seems to insist on a "My Picture" folder, which I don't have. Unless I create it, the program fails to load and I couldn't find any way to set another folder as default. I therefore deleted the program.

This app downloaded, installed & runs fine on my Vista Ultimate (32 bit) system. It's not the most user friendly image app I've ever seen but for anyone with some knowledge of this type software, It will do the trick & work fine.

Just don't be fooled into looking at, (even as a trial) their "Batch Image Processor". Its weak & big time over priced to say the least.

"Zoner Photo Studio 10" is where it's at if your looking to shell out cash for an app of that type & it's half the price. Also don't be suckered into their "get it free through "Trial Pay" BS either! Been there, done that & it's just not worth the headaches that accompany it either. The very best thing about that is "it uninstalls just as easy as it installs. But afterwards, you have to delete it's program file manually.

So what we get here today is just what it says & nothing more! If you have use for one of these & just a little smarts in this type software, it's worth the install. If not, don't bother! On a scale of 1 through 10, I'd rate todays give away a 5. Thats all it deserves.

Installed smoothly on both my xp and vista machines. BTW when I used the Batch Image Processor by this same developer, which was given away here a short while back as a GAOTD, that program did a very nice job processing batches of images. So when I saw this program today, I already expect it to be good because of my positive experience with the prior giveaway.

BinaryMark would like to sell you their Batch Image Processor. As a marketing technique, &/or just being nice they've packaged portions of that program separately, in this case the Batch Image Watermarker - the Resizer was available on GOTD not too long ago. This is an accepted biz practice, going back over a decade - maybe some folks remember the LE versions of Adobe Photoshop?

That's not to say you should or shouldn't object to the prominent ads for their Image Processor in the program's window, but more importantly, it hopefully tells you a bit of what to expect from their Image Watermarker... It's a feature limited utility that does it's job well (otherwise you wouldn't want to buy the full software package), but the overall design or interface maybe isn't as refined, hasn't had as much work put into it as say a program who's only ambition is to watermark images.

Installing the program - in my case without shell (Windows Explorer) integration - has almost zero impact on your system, and should perform well as a portable application, taking up 4.25 MB of space. IN my opinion it's well worth installing, even if all you use it for is tacking on holiday greetings to photos of the kids before you email them to friends & relatives.

Yay @19. Not everyone is an end user. I'm a graphic designer, and I check this site everyday. I've found some great things here. Thanks GOTD for this one. It's pretty cool.

The only question I have is....why??
For professional photographers? If anyone wants to use my
pics of drunken aunt mabel at christmas, I say go for it !!!

hi
just to notify you of some free alternative - I've been using freeware http://www.picture-shark.com for my semi-professional albums. it's really great.

This works pretty well for me (XP pro sp3) - I like the opacity controls and positioning it allows. The font selection is well done and the instant WYSIWYG works well. I think what makes it a keeper is the ability to use an image for the watermark - great if you want to use a logo. The little sales pitch nag at the bottom doesn't interfere but it did push the bottom of the page off the screen so it took me a while to figure out how to start the conversion (button at very bottom of app window).

I tried to use this on one of my pictures and it didn't allow me to adjust anything. If I want to have any control over where the watermark is or size of the watermark. To do any of this I need to buy their product.

I wouldn't suggest this program to anyone.

The program installed fine but every time I try to change the font it says its not a True Type font I chose (it is though) and the program closes on me. I'm running Vista Home premium so maybe that's the problem. Guess I will uninstall. Thought this would be great for my photos that I post online but guess not for me :((

This program installed fine on Windows Vista, worked like it said it would without any problems. The advert. to buy is too big, preview window too small.

Cannot resize window.

These are annoyances, but don't interfere with the program's functionality.

I'd give it 7 out of ten, and will likely have uses for it, as I have a non-commercial website with lots of photos. While it may not stop copyright violations, it may reduce them.

I am very disappointed at all of you who constantly complain about the software GAOTD offers. Many times they don't offer a program that will be useful or a game I don't like to play, BUT they can only offer software that the software companies give to them to offer FREE. If you're waiting to find a program from Adobe (Photoshop, PSE, or one of their other many programs, or Corel, or Microsoft, you have a long wait. Those companies don't offer their programs free to anybody. So, sit back and quit complaining about the programs that are offered to us. And thanks GOTD for all the programs you do offer us, whether they are useful to me or not.

I downloaded and installed this software and it does what is says, however, just like the last Binary Mark Software "Batch Image Resizer" I do not like the interface so I uninstalled it:

1) Not being able to resize the interface to something other than full screen is a joke;
2) The large AD for "Batch Image Processor" on the bottom 1/4th of the interface is very intrusive and NOT tastefully done.

Looking at the program screen shots on the companies website, It looks like the interface MIGHT have the ability to resize and the INTRUSIVE AD is gone.

Based on the versions offered here, I would not recommend Binary Mark Software.

Also, the company should have trial versions of there software for download so potential customers could try before they buy. I do not purchase software from companies who do not have trial versions available for download and testing before purchasing.

Immediately after the install was done I received a Trojan warning from Spyware Doctor. ??????????? GOTD want to comment on this? Thanks for the software, I do download occassionally.

ok.........been playing around with this program. I MUCH prefer the watermark factory and you cant resize the images with this one like I'd hoped. So, this program is "ok", but it will be a happy happy day over here when you repeat the other program again!

The program functions properly, and the skin has been properly calculated/laid-out to show all controls completely and to reset correctly the application is zoomed full screen. This is good.

However, because of the manner in which this application has been skinned, the individual panels inside the application window cannot be resized. This means that on a large image it is difficult to find the watermark on the preview because: a) the preview window is fixed in size (no panel splitters in evidence) and b) the only zoom out mode is "stretch to fit" which, on such a small preview, shows and incorrectly proportioned, too small proxy.

Further, there are TWO advertisements for the Batch product in the application window, one of which is shamelessly 20% of the window real estate. Inexcusable!

I suggest XnView as an alternative. Great browser/organizer with batch processing (including essentially the very same watermarking functionality) that is free with no advertising... for itself or any other product.

EXCELLENT!!!! I've been hoping for a repeat of Watermark Factory because I have that one on my other computer and LOVE it. Hopefully this one will be as easy to use! Thanks SO much!!! There are many many many uses to programs like these.......keep em comin!

I've had this for a couple years - great progam! I can watermark several of my pics for eBay, using my logo, at once. Easy to use.

For anyone that posts any pictures on the website or designs graphics even for fun... this would be an awesome tool to protect your copyrights so other people can't make money off them or claim them... Thanks!!!

My question is why bother with water marks when someone can use programs such as Image Mender or Inpaint (both previous giveaways) to remove them?

Needs .net if you don't want to install .net it will not work. Don't waste your time downloading it.

For those of you who can't imagine a use for this software -

Have you ever been to eBay? -- Watermarking ensures the buyer that the item they are buying is, at least, probably the item they're bidding on is the one they are looking at, and not just a "stock" picture taken from some other location.

Also, when you share your pics with friends/relatives, it's an easy way to show where the pic came from.

Another zero cause of frame stuff.

A great big THANK YOU to GOTD! This is a nifty little piece of software, I installed it with no problems on my Vista system and it works like a charm.
One of my uses is for my web site where I sell personalized candy wrappers. In the past I have had to add a personalization to each wrapper so the design couldn't be snagged by someone to print themselves. This will make my life a lot easier! Also as a realtor, it will come in handy for pics that are displayed online to identify as mine.
We all have different uses for different products. I, for one, am thrilled to have found this site (through a candy wrapping forum) and while many of the offerings don't fit my needs, it is certainly an education of some of the applications that are out there. I've also learned a few tricks from the comments and that's a good thing! Keep up the good work GOTD and ignore the naysayers!

Installed on Vista Ultimate 64-bit and attempted to run the program.

Received an error immediately - popup says "An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."

The popup would allow a bug report to be sent - but I canceled that.
I'll have to thumbs-down this particular software although it would have been of great use to me.

Wow! $150.00 to buy.. It does work as far as putting text on pic.. I really don't think anyone here has tried it..

I'm pretty sure that, "for personal use only" means that you can't use a give away for profit or to make money with a program you get here.
One of my many hobby's with my computer is working with & making desktop wallpapers but I have many that I got on line, free. I remove watermarks from those & then change, modify and create my own from parts of that base image. I also love to make Firefox splash screen images. I'm going to create my own website eventually, where all my wallpapers & Firefox splash screens will be made available to all free for download. Thus, this tool just might come in handy for me. I'm gonna give it a try.
Also, I firmly believe that some visitors have the wrong conception of the word "batch" when it comes to image software. You can do one at a time with any batch image program I've ever seen making "batch" nothing more then an option in the program.

This seems like something worthwhile to download and install to maybe use later. As I do take a lot of pictures with my camera and upload them to snapfish and the like to share on internet forums and stuff.

Its a pity the "System Requirements" doesn't mention that it needs .NET to be installed!

Luckily I have it but someone I recommended the program to didn't.