A free alternative Image Watermark Studio

This Giveaway is free. Don't complain.
The use is basic. What do you expect? It is given free to you.
It is meant for children and kind of home use fooling around with images just to see the "watermark" effect.

For (NOT FREE) serious, professional, enterprise level protection can you all please Google Digimarc.

http://www.digimarc.com/products/guardian/images

Digimarc® Guardian for Images embeds imperceptible, persistent Guardian IDs into digital image assets to communicate ownership and other information — wherever the images appear online.
The digital watermark resists any attempted changes through file copying, format changes, encryption and decryption, as well as image manipulations — editing, cropping, compression and decompression — all without affecting the visual quality of the image or the enjoyment of its viewers.

I used Vertus Play With Pictures on a watermark and BYE BYE watermark
so its a useless program like the rest.
But hey thanks for the Gift gotd

#15, Here is an options that allows to disable update alerts
http://www.softorbits.com/_temp/20140911-q1t-152kb.jpg
It is not in the program's options, sorry if this confused you.

@8 This is not true. The only option provided is language.

WHERE IS GIOVANNI? I guess if he's not here, I shouldn't be.

Any watermark can be removed, the developer's claim is only a sales pitch that it can not be removed, is not correct.
I used a simple watermark remover and it came out in 3 seconds.

I have at least three programs attached to other items that will remove these silly photo protection things. If you put it on the net anyone can use it.

#1 "Cannot/does not resize text watermarks relative to the size of image being watermarked."
Program has this feature, see the "Keep same size for all pictures" option for text watermark and the "xx% of Source image" for logo image watermarks.

#3 Karl, to create watermark that can not be removed, just make large semitrasparent watermark that overlaps important parts of the image (pizza).

#5 "It allways installs SoftOrbis Updater" - this is not a true, it seams that you mix up something.
Our software does not install any updateres. Each program just reminds you about new version, you can easisly turn this off in program's options.

Of the above suggested alternatives, only http://www.easysector.com/ appears to be a suitable alternate giveaway offer. The others are all pay to play... Where is Giovanni? (The best part of this web site.)

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This company have offered several products to us recently all of which do what they claim is a reasonable way.
Like most of the others this program would probably not be the choice of professionals but for people like me who use this sort of software occasionally they are perfectly adequate and free.
Having added a new computer to my home office recently I have downloaded this program and can confirm that it does what it says on the can!

GOTD Staff who may read this really need to look at the User Rating system.
When I first used GOTD it was a useful quick indicator-Now I totally ignore it as it seems to be troll driven. There is no way that people evaluating this software honestly could give 64 thumbs down to 14 thumbs up.
It is not just today,it seems to be the case every day.
It is much better to read what regular reviewers like 'Mr Pizza' Karl ,Tang and supper evaluator Giovanni make of the offering than the User Rating.
So GOTD staff please just take the user rating away as the constant negative ratings are damaging the credibility of your site and misleading potential downloaders.

Strictly personal usage. That is a huge limitation right there.

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1.2 Pro 64 bit system.

The registration thanks in the name of “Sketch Drawer”.

A Russian company with address&phone. We had had several software from this company.

It has some logic, that a company offering software like the GAOTD on July 30th:

Photo Stamp Remover is a photo correction utility that can remove watermarks, date stamps and other unwanted objects that appear on photographs.

as today:
Those who publish pictures on internet can also copyright photos using this watermark maker. By using this software, digital photos can be effectively protected from illegal use. This photo watermark utility places visible watermarks that cannot be removed.

We'll see...

I selected a picture (yes, a pizza), put in a watermark with "glow" and "shadow", transparency 75 and started.

This is the simple result:
http://www1.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=14453329

Nothing special, works as every "watermarker"...

I downloaded once again their "Photo Stamp Remover" and removed the stamp:

This is the result:
http://www1.xup.to/exec/ximg.php?fid=13108257

Well, the claim, that their watermarks "This photo watermark software places permanent watermarks that cannot be removed." is simply plain wrong. It can be removed with every "remove unwanted objects software" (good or bad depending on your skills). There are no tricks to make their visible watermarks with this software "unremovable".

Of course exists software with other ways to digitally sign a picture, but this is another story.

Uninstalled via reboot. I don't need this either.

Installed and registered on WIN7-64bit without any problems.

Works well in batch mode, it's compatible with all major image formats such as JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF. Support load/save personal logo or watermark. Transparent watermarks with customizable text and images. In short, you can keep this tool if you have and hold a need.

SOME SIMILAR ALTERNATIVES:
http://www.watermark-software.com/
http://www.digistar.in/digistar/
http://www.aoaophoto.com/
http://www.easysector.com/

Pros
a clean interface that lets you preview the output of your work
enable to create as many watermark samples as want
watermarks are also very easy to edit
work with various many file formats
can save watermarks and easily load them for future use.

Cons
Cannot/does not resize text watermarks relative to the size of image being watermarked.
Always has default images and watermarks loaded whenever user runs the program.

All in all, All in all, Batch Picture Protector is a nice, simple-to-use app, with a clean interface that can help you protect your pictures against unauthorized usage. The program is intuitive and should be easy to understand even by the less-experienced users.

Alternatives:
BlazePhoto @ http://www.discountandfree.net/discount/blaze-photo-editor
Aoao Watermark for Photo @ http://www.aoaophoto.com
TSR Watermark Image @ https://www.watermark-image.com