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Lightroom Classic - export UNcheck "Resize to fit" removes watermark from photo

New Here ,
Oct 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018

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I have Lightroom Classic - when exporting a photo, when I UNcheck "Resize to Fit" in order to get a maximum pixel resolution, it removes my active signature watermark from the photo.

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LEGEND ,
Oct 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018

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Works here on Lr8 and MacOS 10.13..6

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LEGEND ,
Oct 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018

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Initial troubleshooting:

1. Please do Help > System Info and copy the first ten lines here.

2. Are you using Windows File Explorer or another file browser to examine the exported photos' watermarks?  Which software?

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LEGEND ,
Oct 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018

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Not sure what you mean by Active Signature watermark. Is this a watermark you placed of the image prior to doing an export using some other program like Photoshop?

The only time you can place a watermark on an image in LR is during the Export process. You do that by checking the option check mark box in the Export dialog window.

Once you place a watermark on an image in LR when exporting you can't remove it.

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Oct 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018

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During the export process, I checked the watermark signature I wanted. If I

checked the "Resize to Fit" (which gives me a JPG <1mb), the exported image

has the watermark... but if I UNcheck the "Resize to Fit" to obtain a much

higher sized JPG (+/- 8mb), even though the watermark box is still

checked... the watermark does NOT export.

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Oct 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018

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Are you using the "simple copyright watermark" or a watermark generated using the "edit watermarks" feature. If Edit watermarks, are you using a graphical watermark or a text one?

For me the watermark feature works perfectly regardless of the export resize to fit checkbox. Only if you use a simple copyright watermark and you don't scale, you will get that a watermark that is so tiny that you can't see it in zoomed out view.

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I used the Edit watermarks feature, and TEXT. I'll check your "scale"

comment!

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LEGEND ,
Nov 01, 2018 Nov 01, 2018

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You may be tripping over a bug in some versions of LR.  If you answer my questions above, we can quickly determine that: Re: Lightroom Classic - export UNcheck "Resize to fit" removes watermark from photo

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New Here ,
Nov 02, 2018 Nov 02, 2018

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John,

Here's the first 10 lines from LR Help-System Info

Now my attempt to create the watermark signature is failing all the time.

Lightroom Classic version: 8.0

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en

Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition

Version: 10.0.17134

Application architecture: x64

System architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 12

Processor speed: 2.2 GHz

Built-in memory: 16121.1 MB

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Nov 02, 2018 Nov 02, 2018

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Your version and licensing show that you're not tripping over that older bug.

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New Here ,
Nov 02, 2018 Nov 02, 2018

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John,

I'll admit I'm not very tech savvy. My older "disc" version of LR on my PC

has NO trouble with watermarks. My new LR 8 Classic CC, on my new DELL XPS

15 laptop is the issue.

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LEGEND ,
Nov 02, 2018 Nov 02, 2018

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I don't know what's going on with your configuration.  Two more suggestions:

1. As a possible workaround, set the Export option Limit File Size To: 100,000K:

This worked around another watermark bug that was fixed in LR 7.2. 

2. Edit the watermark you're using and post a screenshot of its entire settings window. Resize the window tall enough to show all the settings:

Perhaps we can reproduce your problem.

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Community Expert ,
Oct 31, 2018 Oct 31, 2018

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If you are using a standard text watermark based on the copyright field it is probably there but really tiny and only visible when you zoom in.

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Try a different font, even if the one you are using used to work, oh, and check your watermark settings, has the font changed?

Lightroom: Watermark not always appearing on exported images | Photoshop Family Customer Community

and

Lightroom: Where did my Watermark go? | Rikk Flohr's Fleeting Glimpse Images

Ineresting, in that last link, author mentions that a OS update can foul up fonts that used to work.

Also, in that last link, possibility of deleting current saved watermark, and creating it over again, even with previous settings.

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