We first set up the watermark settings that we require using the Image Watermark GUI, and save the settings to a file. The contents of the file could look something like this:
Looking at the [Input settings] section of the settings file, we can see that we are processing all jpeg images found in the 'e:\photos\' folder.
If we had wanted to process images from more than 1 folder, we could simple add more lines e.g.
Image Watermark would then pick up all jpeg images found in the 'E:\Photos\', 'G:\Photos\FromDavid\' and 'G:\Photos\FromPeter\' folders.
Next, we have the [Output settings] section, which shows us that all the processed images will be saved in the 'E:\Photos\processed\' folder. The [Image watermark] section contains the watermark settings.
Finally, the [Post processing settings] section shows us that we will move all the original images to the 'E:\Photos\processed\original' folder once they have been processed successfully. We do this so that we do not repeatedly process the same images every time Image Watermark runs.
Once we are satisfied with the settings, we should perform a test run using the command line interface:
As everything looks fine, we can then set up a scheduled to run daily. We could do this using Windows Scheduler.
