Watermark your digital assets watermarking
Adobe Experience Manager Assets lets you add a digital watermark to assets that helps users verify the authenticity and copyright ownership of the assets. Experience Manager Assets supports text to be used as a watermark on PNG and JPEG files.
To be able to apply watermark on assets, add the watermarking step in the DAM Update Asset workflow.
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Access the Experience Manager user interface, and go to Tools > Workflow > Models.
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From the Workflow Models page, select the DAM Update Asset workflow and click Edit.
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From the side panel, drag the Add Watermark step to the DAM Update Asset workflow.
Figure: Drag the Add Watermark step and add to the DAM Update Asset workflow.
note note NOTE Place the Add Watermark step anywhere before the Process Thumbnail step. -
Open the Add Watermark step to display its properties.
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In the Arguments tab, specify valid values in the various fields, including text, font type, size, color, position, orientation, and so on. To confirm the changes, click Done.
Figure: Provide the arguments in the add watermark step in Assets.
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Save the DAM Update Asset workflow with the watermark step.
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From the Assets user interface, upload a sample asset. The watermark appears with the font size, color, and so on, at the position you configured in the above steps.
To watermark PDF documents programmatically or with dynamic information, consider using Experience Manager Document Services offering.
Tips and limitations tips-limitations
- Only text-based watermarks are supported. Images are not used as watermarks, even though you can upload images when creating the Add Watermark Process.
- Only PNG and JPEG files are supported to be watermarked. Other asset formats are not watermarked.