Watermarks in iWeb?

I bring my photo albums from iPhoto onto my iWeb website.
Putting a watermark on Photoshop is time-consuming, and i have no use for pictures with watermarks on my own computer...
Of course I'm concerned that pirates will steal my pictures for commercial purposes, not for print obviously, but for web content...
I don't think iweb can put watermarks on my pictures automatically, does anybody have a suggestion? ( hint to the iLife developpers, please include this function in your next version, there are many photographers out there that could use a "insert watermark" function in their galleries)
Thanks in advance for advice and solutions
Max
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Max:
There are 3rd party applications for watermarking that is essentially drag and drop. iWatermark is one. I've only played with it in the demo mode a bit as I've used Photoshop CS3 and iView MediaPro when I've needed to watermark images . Being an amateur don't have much need to worry.
As long as your images are the size iWeb produces for the photo page, 800 x 600 x 72 dpi, there's very little there to make a high quality print. At most, using 180 dpi, they could get good a 4 x 3 print.
Since you're a professional photographer have you considered a higher end image management application, a DAM (ditital asset management application)? I'm referring to iView MediaPro which is now Microsoft Expression Media. It can do so much more with metadata, i.e. writing it back to the files, renaming of the files and exporting files at a given size and dpi with a watermark. It's my primary image management application and I use iPhoto just for books, calendars, cards, etc. I can group the photos in iVMP and the select, drag and drop into the open iWeb window. Just a though.

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