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luniara — Invisible Watermark Tutorial
Published: 2011-02-15 20:10:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 11802; Favourites: 378; Downloads: 328
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So, I've been seeing a lot of art theft around. After that, I see horrid watermarks being PLASTERED all over the person's work. You've seen it, I'm sure.500 million pastes of their logo all over the piece.
Multiple "(c) of...." in various directions.
Let me SAVE you from pissing people off with your ugly watermarks with THIS tutorial. Your work will be just as safe without such clutter for your viewers! I use this technique on most of my important work when I prefer to save the large resolutions for the public!
SO HERE IT IS!
Luniara's Invisible Watermark Tutorial!
Let me know if you have any questions or other ideas, I'll surely look into it!
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For tons of examples where I used this tutorial:
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Comments: 71
Duuuuude, awesome! I'm so going to try that when I get Photoshop on a computer again. Also, before I knew that pattern was to help protect your stuff, I thought it made the picture look neat and give it a comic book effect, lol
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Micro patterns are really a pain when you want to modify a pic.
That makes it perfect to protect from art thieves! Interesting.
That remember me of the special finish that they use on magazine. It creates the same kind of mini pattern and is really a pain with scanners.
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I steal your artwork regardless, and there's nary a thing you can do to stop me!
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I too hate the Fugly watermarks I've been seeing, however I understand why they are being done. This is a brilliant tutorial, thanks for posting.
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Hahah I do this on most of my artworks. I make a slightly visible one and then a truly invisible one.
On certain parts of some of my images I actually make a massive image-covering watermark that I apply at about 1 to 2% opacity. If you were to take the image into photoshop and adjust the Levels to extreme levels, the watermark will stand out clear as day. It's impossible to remove, too, without destroying the image itself. I haven't tested how well it works in print, though, (like if you were to take a photograph of the print and see if the printer is capable of reproducing the same results after you adjust the photo.)
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Thankies! I know a couple of people who'll like to use this, not to mention myself when I can finally load some of my chalk pastel onto here!
Heh. Probably won't be That popular, but I'm parnoid like that. XD
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I don't really get how this is a different result than a regular watermark that's just at a low opacity... I'm kinda missing the point of the pattern work...
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I don't get it either, honestly.
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(to explain it better, when you highlight the image in IE, the watermark stands out because of the halftones)
If the image was larger, you'd see it actually shows the image, just cut out from the text- thus the text stands out. I can't rly explain it, but IMO... I'd rather do this than putting text on a low opacity where certain colors won't look right.
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have you tried different blending modes, like overlay? Eh, whatever's workin for ya.
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I use many techniques, this is just one of them, b'y. To be honest- I don't really USE a watermark half the time anymore because I sneak my signature in important parts of the picture.
This is just one way, ya'know?
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Trust me, it's a different result.
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Oh this is great! I'm definitely going to start using this method. THANK YOU!
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SNEAKY. I can't even tell where it is unless I stare at it hard enough.
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Hahahaha I still use Internet Explorer... xD
But anyway, nice tutorial! I'm going to see if it works on the online image editor that I use because your technique looks very swanky and I like it a lot, not to mention the piece you used to demonstrate it.
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I just wish watermarks weren't necessary -
KILL DEM ART THIEVES WITH FIRE!
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many thanks on putting this together!
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And here I used to have to arrange my watermarks off to a corner so that they don't interfere with the piece. Thanks!
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This a very nice and subtle method of watermarking. I like it, than you for sharing! C:
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Great tutorial! 
That's definitely better than the humongous watermarks I've seen around!
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