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Invisible Watermarks
Published: 2004-06-12 01:05:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 99542; Favourites: 1041; Downloads: 57329
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Description
One of the ways to help preventing image theft is to add a watermark to your digital works.This is something you could do to help preventing the increasing image theft in the Internet.
Brief:
In this article you can see how you can add an invisible watermark to your photos, traceable only in IE browsers.
This article explains basic Adobeยฎ Photoshopยฎ tools and techniques to create invisible watermarks to your images, along with an example of a finished, watermarked picture.
The author of this article is ~ocsurfer .
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I don't think ~watermarks can fix this. It's a problem on deviantart; the "file not found' bug. You can read more about it on the status forum: [link]
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The image doesnt show up,both here and the download
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Errm... you might want to re-upload the image, because it's showing up as a red X...
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great tutorial...I'm featuring this in my journal
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a really super tutorial but i dont seem to get it to work either with white or balck text. Do you have to save the image as a particular file? (i saved it as jpg)
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I'm sorry to bother you...but mine didn't work. I think it has to do with how I saved it...obviously a Jpeg wouldn't work...so what could I save it as?
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hiya.. i saved mine as jpeg and it worked... one thing that isn't obvious from the tutorial is the text layer is on top of the pattern layer and it is the text layer that is set to exclusion
hope this helps
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OH! That makes a lot more sense! I had the pattern layer set to exclusion!
What exactly does the "exclusion" button do?
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also meant to say that i was useing paintshop pro 9.. so it may be different with other software or even different versions
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Definately a great thing to know how to do. Thank you
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Thanks for the tutorial. ^_^ I'll definatly need it! (I don't know why people would steal my art in the first place, but whatever. o_0)
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Thatโs because IE pulls a checkered selection coloured something over images, while other browsers pull a solid, but translucent one.
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People should note that this way of watermarking is noticable to a point* and they should be careful on pure whites because it darkens it and leaves a noise pattern.
*Its more noticable on flatscreens*
Of course its nice to see a tutorial on it. And I have been using this method for ages now. Infact my boyfriend refinded and made a program that automatically does two kinds of invisible watermarks for me at once, with the click of one button, and the strength is adjustable
Anyways thanks for sharing this with other artists
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This is a great tutorial! Thanks; I was trying to find one that explained the process in a simple way. 
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very nice! but i'm more into "share" not copyright...
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This is uber helpful, but I was wondering (and I bet you get questions like this much too much) but what type of file should I save it to? I normally save my images as PNGs because JPEGs are too blury. I hope I don't annoy you with my questioning, I bet you're buisy with comments and questions on this.
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I tried this just now, and I have only one question.
What color text should we be using for the watermark. I am using black text, but when I finish and highlight my image, it is very hard to read and some parts barely visible.
Anyway, thank you for such a wonderful tutorial.
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Terrible tutorial, badly written. Unclear. Do you want to send me the steps, because I've been trying to watermark an image for over an hour, following the steps exactly, and it doesn't work.
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That's really cool - I noticed that in mozilla firefox, the watermark doesn't pop up but in internet explorer, it does.
It highlights the images in with the same colour ---- that is kind of odd
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Thats because firefox highlights using a solid transparent color while IE uses a highlight that skips everyother pixel
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This is pretty ingenious. 
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The tutorial steps is a bit confusing.... I hope to see a more clarified and detailed tutorial on this method, it's certainly interesting.
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Wow! I learned something new! ^^ I'll keep this in mind the next time I use PS and finish a picture!
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Great tutorial, it really helped me out. But I'm confused on one thing: How do you rasterize the text layer? That's where I got stuck.
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what am i susposed to save the layered file as? am i supposed to merge layers? im lost there.
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Thanks a bunch duder! Here's to all those stealers who were thwarted by this tutorial!:
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how do you set the text layer to exclusion?? i can't seem to get it right too. ):
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This is very helpful, however the invisible watermark doesn't seem to work in browsers like Firefox. Is there a way to make the watermark show up on other browsers that aren't like IE?
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IE is the only browser that uses a highlighting system that skips everyother pixel. I am pretty sure all others use solid color transparencies.
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That explains it. Thanks for the info
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Wow! thats a great tutorial! Thanks so much for makeing it!
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Yea um, i tried this and it made the image look pixelated, no matter what ...on all LCD/Flatpannel displays...
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Wow, this is a wonderful tutorial!
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Itโs a pretty neat trick and a step in the right direction. What there needs to be is a technological advancement that allows an imbedded image that acts in a similar fashion.
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Awesome tutorial.
Just wanted to say that I used it today, and had no problems with it :]
Thanks!
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Hmm, good tutor. I have readen the first one too. I usally make so. But I would like this watermark method too, but I couldn't make it. @_x Could you tell me, what kind of colour the text must have? Maybe that's that I done wrong. I used black.
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