Watermarking

[Anonymous No.420628]

What are some of the ways you watermark your original stuff?

[Anonymous No.420631]

I never watermark anything. If I would need to prove I'm the author of a piece I have the source files as authentication.
Besides who steals OC that is worth paying any attention whatsoever?

If someone decided to rip my stuff and make pornographic compilations of it and sold it underground I would but consider it a feather in my hat.

[Anonymous No.420634]

I don't watermark any of my art since this is a hobby to me. People have "stolen" my work and I don't care. Nobody gives a rats ass about the author.

[Anonymous No.420644]

>>420628
nobody wants to steal my stuffs :'(

[Anonymous No.420660]

>>420631
>I never watermark anything. If I would need to prove I'm the author of a piece I have the source files as authentication.

Agreed. Provenance is almost certainly your best protection.

And it's also been my experience that watermarking is often easier to remove than it was to implement.

[Anonymous No.420661]

>>420628
>I never watermark anything. If I would need to prove I'm the author of a piece I have the source files as authentication.

Agreed. Provenance is almost certainly your best protection.

And it's also been my experience that watermarking is often easier to remove than it was to implement, and I consider it a pretty fucking useless technology.

[Anonymous No.420676]

honestly when i browse a portfolio, i close the page as soon as i see one watermarked picture. it gives a feeling that the artist doesn't trust me to not steal his shit

[Anonymous No.420731]

>>420676
Or when you're browsing pictures and someone has made one of those gay ass overlays to cripple the built in save function so you need to print the screen and cut it out, or dive into the cache to save it.
People like that piss me off because they go the extra mile just to piss me off. Surely they know it can be defeated easly and that they're just messing with people.
If I come across a page like that I save the image out of spite and quickly closes the page without looking at the rest so I don't have to do it again if I would see something I liked.

[Anonymous No.420763]

>>420676
I have all of my images watermarked, but not because I'm afraid of somebody stealing my work. My reasoning is if somebody sees what they like, I want to give them a way to contact me and find more of my work. I couldn't care less about people trying to steal my work. It's easy enough to prove I'm the creator.

[Anonymous No.420764]

>>420763
To clarify, I'm talking about if somebody saves my work and post it somewhere else or shares it with somebody. I know I have a huge folder of CG I find interesting and prefer if they're watermarked so I can find the creator more easily.

[Anonymous No.420770]

>>420763
>>420764
Sounds like you're talking about putting a signature or web address visible on your image, that's not a watermark.
A watermark is a covert data set embedded into the image that none will be aware of just from looking at it.
You know like how money have watermarks that only become visible if you hold it to the light and scrutinize it to determine it's genuine.

[Anonymous No.420779]

>>420770
Oh, gotcha. Then yes, I completely understand the sentiment.

[Anonymous No.420780]

Fuck you. It's always those faggot "original character donut steal pls" pieces of shit. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.420821]

I put a small black bar at the bottom of my renders with my name and website. I do it more so people know where it came from for job opportunities rather than theft prevention.

Putting a watermark across your image is a kiss of death. It ruins the image and makes you look like some deviantart fag, "pls dnt steel! ;-;"

[Anonymous No.420824]

ITT: /3/ actually agrees on something.

Obviously, I do, too.

[Anonymous No.420831]

>>420824
I see "Up your" "Asshole" when they do this thumbs up and 'ok' hand gestures. :D

[Anonymous No.420840]

>>420821
>I do it more so people know where it came from for job opportunities rather than theft prevention.

This is the only reason I would ever watermark one of my images. I've come across several other images myself where I wished I knew the author, but there was no watermark in the image to tell me.

[Anonymous No.420852]

>>420821
>Putting a watermark across your image is a kiss of death. It ruins the image and makes you look like some deviantart fag, "pls dnt steel! ;-;"

So much this.

>>420840
Yeah, I know the feeling. That's why I put my logo, name, and contact info in a small obscure place in all of my renders. It's out of the way as to not get in the way of the art, and its only purpose is so I don't miss a work opportunity.

The day /3/ agreed on something... I never thought I'd see the day.

[Anonymous No.420916]

>>420821
I'm doing this now.

[Anonymous No.421594]

>>420770

There is both visible and invisible watermarking.

[Anonymous No.421597]

>>420661
dude... it takes FAR longer to remove a watermark than to make one...

your name/symbol/image you like
transparency, and put it somewhere on the image that wouldn't kill the image.
if you are being fucked with and people are going "well fuck you, i do what i want with your shit so fuck off" than you watermark it a bit more boldly somewhere it ruins the image for the people fucking with you.

if you do something commercially, and you want to give a sample (i'm talking stills and merch) you put out a low res version, possibly even a low LOW quality jpeg, watermark it fucking hard, and have select samples in a high res high quality of that image. the people who are ripping you off are deliberately trying to make a buck fast and leave quick.

always watermark anything you make and release with a small legible corner name/web site if you want people to find you and more of your shit, remember the watermark isnt there to ruin the image in that case, its so they can find more and when it eventually does get stolen or passed off as someone elses, its easier to find you.

>>420631
its about other people finding you more than it is a stamp of YO, I DID THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE

>>420731
any page i see like that is usually selling the work, or the work is part of a commercial piece. and sure it wont stop everyone from taking it, but it stops most people and thats the point.

>>421594
when you are talking about an image, this is usually the water mark people think of, granted the example is a stop fucking with me already extreme

>>420840
lets say you are a porn artist, and want to sell a set, but you need examples from the set to sell the set, heavy watermarking is one of the few ways to do this.