Watermarking your Miva Merchant product images is an important part of image protection, marketing, and branding. Remember how watermarking used to take a lot of time? Not anymore.
Features
- set and forget: can automatically take are of all watermarking behind the scenes
- watermark any image in your store or on your site
- watermarks can be text, graphic overlay, or both
- text overlay settings include tokens, position, colors/opacity, and more.
- preview and test your watermarks without affecting images
- creates backup images for easy restoration
- protect images that should not be watermarked based on product code or filename
- option to automatically watermark images as they are added to products
- works with image machine and legacy images
- option to update non-watermarked images in store
- can display images with watermarks without marking the image
- Scot's Blogger and CMS can use it to protect blog post images.
Watermarking
There are a lot of reasons to watermark your images in Miva Merchant and this module will do it for you.
Copyright and Theft Protection
Your Miva store images are probably the result someone putting a lot of time into making them look great and simply put, you don't want people to steal them.
Next thing you know, a blogger comes along and decides to use one of your product images without giving you credit for it.
Marketing and Branding
If your Miva Merchant product images are watermarked and someone uses them for a blog or shares them, that means you get free marketing. If someone likes what they see in the image, they can more easily track you down and purchase products.
Watermark Options
Watermark gives you the option of adding a text watermark to your product or other images, a graphic overlay watermark, or both.
Use a graphic overlay for your logo and siganture, and a text watermark for the copyright and site designation. All bases covered.
Behind the Scenes - Set and Forget
It doesn't matter if your Miva Merchant store has one image or 10,000 images. Watermark can take care of it behind the scenes without getting in the way of people buying products.
Watermark Testing
You don't turn Watermark on until you want to. That means you can test your watermarks as much as you want.
The testing experience is simple and watermark previews are non-destructive: no product images get harmed in the process.
Product Image Backups and Restore
Watermark automatically backs up your images so it's easy to restore an image that has been watermarked.
Protect Images
In addition to restoring original images, you have options to protect images from being watermarked. This is useful if you see a product image that doesn't need to be watermarked or isn't suitable for a watermark.
Other Utilities
Watermark images by inputting a list of images or a directory where images are stored. Perfect for those who want more control and want to watermark more than just product images.
Product Utilities
You can watermark a product's images from the product edit screen. Watermark, protect, and restore and all right there, and you can visually see the original and watermarked images to make sure they look good.
Final Thoughts
You simply can't go wrong watermarking your Miva Merchant images. There are a lot of services online to do it, most of them charge a fee, and yes, they get the job done. However when you have Watermark in your store, everything is at your fingertips and you never have to remember to watermark and image again and that time can be spent making more sales.
