preference of techniques for inserting copyright notices

Hi all. Just curious how most folks deal with the repetitive and boring
task of inserting a copyright notice into a digital image while you're
processing it. Type it in by hand every time, or create a separate file
you paste in, or somethineg else?

Just curious. I do the type-it-in method myself, but I'm leaning
towards making a separate file.

Jim

 

J. F. Cornwall offered these thoughts for the group's
consideration of the matter at hand:

I'd like to know that myself! I add a copyright manually in EXIF
even though it is easily removed. I know I can add them later in
Exifer, but what I'd really like is a batch function to add
something to EXIF and perhaps to the face of the image after I've
finished a series.

The best I have now is a small Notepad file with the most used
special character symbols , my copyright notice, and some other
useful stuff. I copy whatever to the clipboard and paste into
wherever I need it to go. Pretty slow and very tedious.

 

Exifer can do that for you.
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/

Rutger

 

I talked about my approach to this in an article on my blog,
Single-Serving Photo:

http://www.singleservingphoto.com/2007/04/15/automated-workflow-i/

Basically I use a combination of ImageMagick, a previously-created GIF
image for the watermark, and a little bit of scripting magic to glue
it together. The code and examples in the article are for the Mac, but
they should be adaptable to the PC using something like Cygwin or
other similar trickery.

I have it to the point where watermarking doesn't even enter my mind
because it's all taken care of automatically at export time!

 

Thanks all.

Jim