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 I have a gallery with 4 albums in it. Two or three albums were made with an earlier version of shozam. The fourth was recently added. I have watermarks that appear in the wrong place (were put there because I forgot to change the location before generating the gallery, I believe it's the default location). The other watermarks appear where I want them but shozam will not change the location or remove the watermarks from the two galleries. Any thoughts about this?

Shozam cannot process images if the "source" image is not available. So if your original images are no longer available at the location from which they were originally added, you will not be able to modify the watermark or compression settings.

 Thanks. I believe the source images were still there but not 100% sure. What I did to correct the problem was to remove the photos from the album and put them back in. I did lose all the detail information but that is OK. I had overcompressed the photos and they really didn't look very good. I may have deleted the source images (reduced in size on my HD). I resized and compressed with another program and then left shozam's compression at 100%. Photos look fine now. I will keep in mind about the source images. Does shozam give an error of any type if it can't find a source image?

Tom, Shozam will need to re-compress images whenever it process them. So if your images need to be scaled, you cannot get around the fact that the program will need to re-compress as well. Compression is part of the unavoidable process of saving a JPEG image and the image will need to be saved again after it is scaled. Setting image quality at 100% will make your images very large without a noticeable improvement to image quality.

I recommend you keep your original images at high quality and use about 80% quality setting in Shozam. You can test the trade-off between image quality and file size by generating a few test runs, evaluating images visually and right-click on the image to see the actual file size.

Program does not give a specific alert if it cannot find the original source images. We'll consider adding this to a "summary report" to be displayed on the left side in Step 5, after the gallery is generated.