How to watermark photos in php?

// Load the stamp and the photo to apply the watermark to
$stamp = imagecreatefrompng('stamp.png');
$im = imagecreatefromjpeg('photo.jpeg');// Set the margins for the stamp and get the height/width of the stamp image
$marge_right = 10;
$marge_bottom = 10;
$sx = imagesx($stamp);
$sy = imagesy($stamp);// Copy the stamp image onto our photo using the margin offsets and the photo 
// width to calculate positioning of the stamp. 
imagecopy($im, $stamp, imagesx($im) - $sx - $marge_right, imagesy($im) - $sy - $marge_bottom, 0, 0, imagesx($stamp), imagesy($stamp));// Output and free memory
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

I have a website where users may upload images...

I need to add my logo (watermark) to the images once they are uploaded.

How can I do so?

And it is important that the watermark is in a corner where it will be visible, for example I have seen websites which generates a watermark on the fly, and puts the mark wherever the background of the main image is "the same color" so the watermark sticks out if you know what I mean.

Anybody have a good tutorial or article about this? Or know of any function in php which I would need to find the position of the watermark?

Sandesh

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asked Feb 10, 2010 at 7:39

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A good example in the PHP manual:

// Load the stamp and the photo to apply the watermark to
$stamp = imagecreatefrompng('stamp.png');
$im = imagecreatefromjpeg('photo.jpeg');

// Set the margins for the stamp and get the height/width of the stamp image
$marge_right = 10;
$marge_bottom = 10;
$sx = imagesx($stamp);
$sy = imagesy($stamp);

// Copy the stamp image onto our photo using the margin offsets and the photo 
// width to calculate positioning of the stamp. 
imagecopy($im, $stamp, imagesx($im) - $sx - $marge_right, imagesy($im) - $sy - $marge_bottom, 0, 0, imagesx($stamp), imagesy($stamp));

// Output and free memory
header('Content-type: image/png');
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);

Josh

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answered Feb 10, 2010 at 7:41

XUE CanXUE Can

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use this function
the type of watermark image must be "png"

 function watermark_image($target, $wtrmrk_file, $newcopy) {
    $watermark = imagecreatefrompng($wtrmrk_file);
    imagealphablending($watermark, false);
    imagesavealpha($watermark, true);
    $img = imagecreatefromjpeg($target);
    $img_w = imagesx($img);
    $img_h = imagesy($img);
    $wtrmrk_w = imagesx($watermark);
    $wtrmrk_h = imagesy($watermark);
    $dst_x = ($img_w / 2) - ($wtrmrk_w / 2); // For centering the watermark on any image
    $dst_y = ($img_h / 2) - ($wtrmrk_h / 2); // For centering the watermark on any image
    imagecopy($img, $watermark, $dst_x, $dst_y, 0, 0, $wtrmrk_w, $wtrmrk_h);
    imagejpeg($img, $newcopy, 100);
    imagedestroy($img);
    imagedestroy($watermark);
}

watermark_image('image_name.jpg','watermark.png', 'new_image_name.jpg');

answered Nov 14, 2014 at 20:08

iraqi_love4everiraqi_love4ever

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Good Example of watermark image and positioned at the center

answered Dec 20, 2012 at 15:19

I found a much better solution which add a watermark dinamically through .htaccess, you can find the tutorial here:

Add watermark to images through htaccess

After uploading the custom .htaccess file, the watermark.php scrypt, and your watermark.png image, all the images in the folder and its subfolders will show the watermark, however, you will still keep the original file in the server.

Hope that helps someone the same that it helped to me.

answered Oct 11, 2012 at 16:13

Alberto S.Alberto S.

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ImageMagick works well for that. I've done it before. The whole business is a bit of a pain, though. Especially if you want fancy blending modes and the like.

answered Feb 10, 2010 at 7:51

Gabriel HurleyGabriel Hurley

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// Load the stamp and the photo to apply the watermark to

$stamp = imagecreatefrompng('stamp.png');
$im = imagecreatefromjpeg('photo.jpg');
$save_watermark_photo_address = 'watermark_photo.jpg';

// Set the margins for the stamp and get the height/width of the stamp image

$marge_right = 10;
$marge_bottom = 10;
$sx = imagesx($stamp);
$sy = imagesy($stamp);

// Copy the stamp image onto our photo using the margin offsets and the photo 
// width to calculate positioning of the stamp. 

imagecopy($im, $stamp, imagesx($im) - $sx - $marge_right, imagesy($im) - $sy - $marge_bottom, 0, 0, imagesx($stamp), imagesy($stamp));

// Output and free memory
// header('Content-type: image/png');

imagejpeg($im, $save_watermark_photo_address, 80); 
imagedestroy($im);

answered Jan 24, 2014 at 6:28

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