Not good at all very slow & as already stated by Neale(13) "On Windows 7 Ultimate, x64, it produces an ‘unhandled exception’ error as soon as I click [Apply Water Mark]. I can click [Continue] but the watermark is not applied."
Thanks to GAOTD for letting me try it!

This does not seem to work in windows 7. I get some kind of runtime error.

WinXP SP3 trouble installing.

I like to install in folders where I want to , monthly folders and keep things tidy. This progs install gives the option to browse , c drive, double click to open , then hangs . It hanged this morning and hanged this evening. So I gave up and let it install where it wanted to , and not where I had wanted it to. It then installed ok, but activation boot and several tries later GAOTD would not register it and nag screen came up. Eventually it registered.

Tried prog first by placing text on an image. Could not see any option to change font colour so first attempt the white text was not visible against the white sky. Several clicks all over the picture moved the text and changing font size immediately worked.
Saves as a png file. My default graphics would then not open the file.

Then opened up in infraview and it says jpeg wrongly saved as png extension do you want to rename to jpeg. Yes I do, hooray .
Why cant this prog save to jpeg instead of png?

Next tried inserting picture as a water mark, but I could not see any way of resizing the pic inserted . When I moved the pic around the window screen went white as if it was going to crash, so suspect it is a memory hog as well.

Unless there are hidden features I have not discovered yet , I would not rate this as a water mark tool as there are other tools out there.

If you want easy double exposure effects , with one photo completely superimposed over the other, and easy to vary opacity , this tool is good and for that reason a keeper .

ok,this looks good at face value,BUT...when you use it....slow down your brain cause this program takes my hp d530 and slows it down to a crawl like an old 486,remember those? im running windows xp pro sp3.usually the programs are very good that are here but im going to pass on this one.photoscape free does the same thing and runs much faster.not keeping this one.oh ya thanks to GOTD a couple of weeks back for PROCESS LASSO. what a difference in speed and load times on my system.

@9

There are some individuals who are in the craft industry and post projects which use a company's copyrighted image to their blogs. By adding a watermark, if someone were to "copy" the picture to their computer, they cannot remove the watermark; can merely crop it out of the picture, losing a portion of the image. A well-placed watermark can prevent a person from stealing the other person's work and trying to profit from it.

How do you make this portable? Please tell!

On Windows 7 Ultimate, x64, it produces an 'unhandled exception' error as soon as I click [Apply Water Mark]. I can click [Continue] but the watermark is not applied.

@8 Gareth
"When i click and drag the image or text onto the image to make the watermark it seems like the text wants to run away, it runs of the screen i dont know why :|"

I found this too, and then discovered I was to click only, rather than click and drag the text. This is why one of the points I raised was the lack of help included with the package.

What is the point in watermarking, can easily be eliminated.

@ 6

I agree with you but its usful for people starting this kind of thing that dont have half a millon to spend on photoshop.

I dont need this software today becuase it is useless to me, because i have photoshop and fireworks CS5 and they can do LOADS more!

But i have downloaded and tested it here is my opionon (i cant spell leave me alone :|)

Installs great on Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
Showdow has to go.... change it to Shadow please!
When i click and drag the image or text onto the image to make the watermark it seems like the text wants to run away, it runs of the screen i dont know why :|

All in All its a well made program!

Thanks GAOTD

Also considering that commercial dealings is the only situation where you really need to watermark your image, the "strictly personal use" clause kind of defeats the purpose.

While I really do appreciate this software, it seems sorta... useless? If you're that worried about watermarking your images, chances are your a photographer or design artist, and chances are that if you are one of those, you have Photoshop, GIMP, or Aperture. You can easily just type up a text layer, change the opacity, and rotate it. It's that simple, plus, it's integrated right into your workflow!

But hey, what do I know? I'm just the 10 Ton gorilla in the room.

For those that missed this, or want more, the software Paint .Net can do this and more, and is free. Learning curve is somewhat high as compaired todays offer. However, worth taking a look at.

no image resizer included.

Easy to use, but it lacks features, so I'm disapointed.

Installed and activated fine in Windows XP SP3

Opens a variety of image formats, but appears to only save in .PNG.

I particularly like the option to click to place watermark, rather than the usual placing of it by either a set location in the image or using slider controls to move the position, although this option does appear in the Batch Process mode.

The option to screen capture into the application is a nice addition, although I did have problems with some of the modes (maybe that's just me though :D). Despite being fairly easy to use it would have been good to have had some form of help included with the application.

After watermarking a test image and saving the original .JPG as .PNG I opened it in IrfanView and was presented with a warning that the file "is a JPG with incorrect file extension".

To the developwer: can you change "Shodow" in the text Effects for the correct spelling, "Shadow".