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luniara β Invisible Watermark Tutorial
Published: 2011-02-15 20:10:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 11636; Favourites: 377; Downloads: 323
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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!
Like MOST tutorials, FULL VIEW or Download to actually be able to read it.
For tons of examples where I used this tutorial:
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Well, way back when I first made the tutorial - when you would highlight the image, the watermark would stand out very prominently because of the halftone patterns. It would ruin a print job because of the pattern as well.Β
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Is there a way to do something like this in Gimp or MS paint ? I don't have photoshopΒ Β
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Adobe offers a free copy of Adobe CS2 if you go to their website. I've never tried Gimp and since you can not use layers in MS paint, I doubt you can do it.
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Alright thank you replyingΒ Β I'll try if I canΒ
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How about drawings with transparent backgrounds?
and... when I low the opaticy the text looks even more distracting in my case... what am I doing wrong?
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Ouh...that's an interesting question. That may be a bit more difficult given the transparency, but perhaps just try selecting the picture ITSELF and only applying the watermark to the character,object, etc. rather than the entire image. So, say you are going to add the watermark, before you do this, merge the layers of the image and ctrl click the layer to select ONLY the character or item that is on that layer and apply the watermark that way?
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ahh I might try! Thank you ~~
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Thank you for uploading this. It really helped me a lot and now I can protect my art from thieves.
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You should. creativerepository.com/wp-contβ¦
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Are you not using Photoshop?
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I have photosop elements 11
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Ahhh..see, that is why.
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i liked this very much owo
not trying to be rude, but that looks pretty easy to photoshop out...e.e but i shall adjust!
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Not rude at all. It's actually a half tone pattern placed all over the canvas. SO if you try photoshopping it out... you're getting an inconsistent pattern and swatch.Β
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Hello. Can you please help me? I'm stuck at step 4 I tried but it's not coming out like yours.
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I can try! At what step does it start to look wrong?
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Thank you!
At Step 4 I can't make it change from the black to the transparent. I'm confused at this part.
"With the bucket tool selected, we are going to change the fill settings from 'foreground' to 'pattern' and then select the pattern we made..."
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I will do the process and take screenshots for you.
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Ok! Thank you so much!
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It wont work for me and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. ;c No matter how many of these I try.
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Love this! I was wanting to start putting watermarks on my pics, and making on like this would be perfect!
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Or you can do that. The invisible watermark actually hinders reproduction and makes dots appear all over it- ruining their print job.
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Thanks! Hope it's useful to you
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It is! I've already used it twice. Thanks again~! :3
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Great tutorial! I used this tutorial and I like it! Anything that helps against art thieves, but dosen't ruin the art with ugly watermarks gets a thumbs up from me
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Thank you so much for this tutorial! It's so easy and yet so effective
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I had a person erase my signature from a picture I did not too long ago and she ruined it for everyone because I started signing where the pic would be ruined if it were removed. Your tut just saved my life <3
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YOU are awesome! On every horribly self-defaced masterpiece, that I see on DA, I will make it my mission in life for the artists to see your true path of preserving ART, yet allowing them from preventing Scumbag thieves from stealing their hard work.
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I'll have to try this... i've been lazy about my watermarks, but I know without one it can be easily TAKEN!
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You know, actually... I actually really LIKE the look of the pixelatedy effect this gives the final image O_O
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Me too! 
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That's an awesome and really helpful tutorial 
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Great! Hopefully this will save some pieces from some of the horrendous watermarks I've seen about lately. xD
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