FW Real Estate – Documentation
Watermark
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Property photography gets taken. Portals scrape it, competitors reuse it, and a listing you paid a photographer for ends up advertising somebody else's agency. A watermark does not prevent that — it makes it obvious, which is most of the point.
Use Cases
- Protecting commissioned photography. Every reuse carries a visible cost for whoever borrows it.
- Passive branding. Your agency name travels with every image that is shared or re-posted.
- Portal feeds. Images syndicated to third-party portals still say where they came from.
Settings
Open Configuration → Add-ons → Watermark to configure the stamp.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Type | Text or Image. |
| Text | The line of text to stamp, for example © Your Agency. |
| Image path | An absolute server path to a PNG file when Type is set to Image. Use a PNG with transparency. |
| Position | Top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right, or centre. |
| Opacity | 0–100. |
Leaving the Text field empty (when Type is Text) or the Image path empty (when Type is Image) disables the stamp without turning the add-on off.
Important Notes
- The stamp is permanent. It is burned into the stored image on upload, not overlaid at display time. Changing any setting affects new uploads only. Removing a watermark from photos already uploaded means uploading those photos again.
- Get the settings right before a bulk import. Because the stamp cannot be undone after the fact, configuring and testing on a single image before importing a large batch will save significant rework.
- Opacity is the whole craft. Too faint and the mark is cropped out in seconds; too strong and it spoils the photograph you paid for, which costs more in lost enquiries than the theft ever would. Somewhere around a third opacity is usually where the stamp stops being ignorable and starts being tolerable.
- A corner is safer than the centre. Centre position survives cropping best but ruins the image most. On a property photo, a bottom corner is the standard compromise.
To install this addon, open the Add-ons panel inside FW Real Estate. See Getting Started → Add-ons for details on free addons, paid addons, and site verification.
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