Keeping our name in the picture
A replacement food photograph led to a batch watermark audit, then a menu-layout correction so the marks stayed visible on small screens.
Looking back to 21 September, I sent the agent a new photograph for our Teochew Png Kuih page. It already carried our kitchen’s watermark. I asked it to replace the old picture and check the rest of the food photographs on the website, adding the mark where it was missing. The earlier diary about choosing dish photographs covered a different job. This time we were checking whether our name stayed with the pictures we displayed.
The agent made a list of fifty-three image assets. Twenty-one already had watermarks and were kept. One was replaced with the photograph I supplied. Twenty-two food and preparation photographs needed a mark added. The remaining nine were seven branded sharing cards and two ingredient-packaging pictures, which were recorded separately and left unchanged. A batch check still needed decisions about which images belonged in the batch.
I approved using a local program to place the text on the photographs. It added our kitchen’s name without generating replacement food. The image dimensions stayed the same, and the audit recorded the original and resulting file hashes. Saving a new JPEG or WebP involves compression, so the result was not a promise that every pixel elsewhere in the saved file would be identical.
There was another part to the job: how the website displayed those photographs. A menu tile could crop an edge of a picture, including a watermark that was present in the file. The agent changed those tiles to show the whole image within the available space, then checked the mobile layout. Adding the mark and keeping it visible on the page had to be checked together.
The change was merged that evening. The agent then downloaded the live images and compared them with the committed files, and reopened the live Teochew Png Kuih page. That gave us a record of what was actually served after the change, rather than relying on the edited files alone. It was a check of that release, not a guarantee about every future picture.
What I found useful was the way one replacement photograph became a complete, bounded maintenance job: list the images, keep the marks already there, add the missing ones and inspect the display. I had asked for the wider check and approved the method. The agent followed it through across the files and the website. Our small name in the corner stayed part of the picture.
