CSV import and water mark

Hi again,

I want to create products from images with my watermark, and each product has 5 varients, with one of those varients being a downloadable version of the image.

I have done this by creating products from an image - and then attaching the downloadable file. Actually through performance issues I have uploaded a small version and replaced it with the full sized version using ftp like you suggested in previous posts.

Now I want to do this using a csv file because the manual process is a bit much.

What I do is:
Create the products from an image using a template that has an arbitrary file attached to the appropriate varient. The resulting products have image + watermark.
I export the products to create the csv file
I replace the name of the varient file with the final image file names
I delete all the products and generate everything again from the csv file and the same template, this time minus the file attached to the varient.

All goes perfectly and my files are attached to the varients in the right way. There is no preview for the image, what I get is the standard bar code image.

When I place the images in the upload folder root the preview image appears but without the water mark.

How do I get the watermark to present when using this method.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Nicolas,

See you are very busy. I have found a quick and easy way to embed my watermark in my preview images in my graphic software so dont spend a lot of time finding a solution for this. If there is a quick and easy solution in Hika I would like to hear about it but its not important now.

Thank you -it works just fine like it is so there is no real reason to implement it as part of the CSV method.

What I would dearly love though is if I could create a product from a folder as follows:

Load my files (the high resolution photos) to the root folder as it is now

Select the template

System detects the varients in the template and displays them as a checkbox list or drop menu with ...

the instruction select the varient to which I want my file attached.

Make thumbnails at various sizes from the file that are attached as the product image (with water mark).

You already make thumbnails from the images so it could be feasible.