There have been many past inquiries about Digimarc for Images supporting 64-bit versions of Adobe Photoshop. I'm happy to announce that with the release of Photoshop CS5 for Mac and Windows, Digimarc for Images will automatically be included in both the 32 and 64-bit versions. And yes, this does include our newly improved Chroma watermarking technology as well.

CS5 users take note: Please do not try to install any Digimarc plug-ins from CS4 or earlier as they will be incompatible with CS5 and affect your usage of our service.

I also want to mention that if you need 64-bit support on CS4 for Windows, we'll make it available in the next few weeks. Please contact our customer support for this version of the plug-in.

Over the next few weeks I'm going to revisit some older posts and refresh them. My goal is to tie them together so an overview of workflow solutions are provided to make watermarking images easier for you.

When I used to work on designing identity documents we talked about layers of security, because no single solution can do it all. RFID chips, specialty printing inks, substrates and special design features needed to be combined to offer certain levels of security. Additionally, I will toss in some discussions about free image protection solutions. I have to give some credit to Scott Kelby's post where he mentions a lot of available solutions he likes, including a very nice review of Digimarc for Images. I don't want to review other commercial applications, but will discuss some of the free solutions he mentions like metadata and how to incorporate these into your workflow.

If there's an image protection solution you'd like to discuss, let me know. Let's see if we can figure out the best combination of solutions for your time and money.