ByteScout Watermarking SDK – VB.NET – Add Simple Watermark

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How to add simple watermark for hello_world_vb in VB.NET using ByteScout Watermarking SDK

Tutorial: how to add simple watermark for hello_world_vb in VB.NET

Every ByteScout tool contains example VB.NET source codes that you can find here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. ByteScout Watermarking SDK helps with hello_world_vb in VB.NET. ByteScout Watermarking SDK is the software development kit that helps to quickly implement adding of watermarks on top of PNG, JPG, BMP images as well as on multipaged TIFF files. You may select ready to use presets or create your own preset with semitransparent logo images, text lines with adjustable font size, family, color, rotation.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Watermarking SDK for VB.NET plus the instruction and the code below will help to learn how to add simple watermark. Sample code in VB.NET is all you need. Copy-paste it to your the code editor, then add a reference to ByteScout Watermarking SDK and you are ready to try it! Further enhancement of the code will make it more vigorous.

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Module1.vb

      Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports Bytescout.Watermarking
Imports Bytescout.Watermarking.Presets


Module Module1

    Sub Main()
	' Create new watermarker
        Dim waterMarker As New Watermarker()
	' Create new preset
        Dim preset As New TextFitsPage()
	' Create new string
        Dim inputFilePath As String
	' Create new string
        Dim outputFilePath As String

        ' Set input file path
        inputFilePath = "my_sample_image.jpg"
        ' Set output file path
        outputFilePath = "my_sample_output.jpg"

        ' Initialize library
        waterMarker.InitLibrary("demo", "demo")

        ' Add image to apply watermarks to
        waterMarker.AddInputFile(inputFilePath, outputFilePath)

        ' Set preset text
        preset.Text = "Bytescout Watermarking"

        ' Add watermark to watermarker
        waterMarker.AddWatermark(preset)

        ' Set output directory
        waterMarker.OutputOptions.OutputDirectory = "."

        ' Apply watermarks
        waterMarker.Execute()

        ' Open generated image file in default image viewer installed in Windows
        Process.Start(outputFilePath)

    End Sub

End Module