FastMark

With the ease of sharing ideas and art pieces online also comes the risk of having your craft stolen and embedded or social media posts without your consent. For such situations, a lightweight utility known as FastMark can be of great use, providing users with simple watermarks that can attest the genuineness of your documents and digital artworks through the implementation of copyright overlays.

Once downloaded, double-clicking the program’s included executable provides users with a quick shortcut in the operating system’s “Send to” category of the context menu for starting up the watermarking process straight away when clicking on a file, thus bypassing the need for a static, always active interface to make use of its core function, and making it easier for those with mouse-focused workflows to speed up the interaction. Alternatively, items can also be dragged and dropped into the executable itself if the user wishes to keep the context menu unaltered.

When initialized, the app summons a compact pop-up window where users can input their company name or their own initials meant to be plastered across the file’s canvas, while also being able to pick the resulting item’s format, which may come in handy if certain users wish to retain the original element’s extension for compatibility purposes. The watermark application is swift and creates a separate file instead of replacing the target one, in order to let users try a multitude of overlays before settling on a particular one.

Moreover, given its portable format, the program can be easily added to on-the-go USB flash drive-powered setups for those who tend to switch between their work and personal devices without having to worry about synchronizing specific application settings over the cloud. Finally, since its source code is openly available, those with programming experience can make suggestions or fork the repository to create custom versions featuring changes that fit their preferences.

Whether you wish to share sample copies of your artwork online without being afraid of malignant individuals stealing your craft, or you want to monetize your essays while providing customers with a preview page of the introduction chapter, FastMark may be the right tool for your use case, given its fast-paced application pattern and support for both image and PDF documents.