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Opinions on watermarks
a year ago
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Wanna hear my opinion when people do watermarks on their images? Hope this doesn't sound unpopular to some but remember, I am entitled to my own opinion on the matter.
I have nothing against watermarks on anywhere of the image as I do it too since I started this account but what really annoys me so much is people putting large watermarks all over their images as it ruins the atmosphere, it's not a problem if they show full view images behind their paywalls.
I can understand people really hate art thieves and don't want their art stolen but hear this: If you have your own unique art style and if someone uses it just remember your own art style is proof enough to know that the art is yours and people who uses your images are always their dumb moves and if they claim it, they don't have any proof of the tools they used or have any WIP files unless they credit you for the art but I'm not sure if people would still like that, so yeah always keep your WIP files and don't get too complainant. :P
How I watermark is putting the mark over the effects in the background so it's difficult to be removed and it won't have to be all over the image, keep in mind I do hand draw and always keep all my drawings in a box so at any event if someone steals my art and if they claim it? I have proof that it's really from me with showing the drawing and besides my unique style I draw is my identity so I don't think anybody would have any desire to steal my work, it makes me not worried but just in case, I have protocols to deal with this situation. XP
So yeah it's simple to put on watermarks on the corner of your image on the effects in the background that is hard to remove instead of large watermarks over your image, unless the images are adopts on offer which I find it fine to watermark over the image.
If you have any questions you wanna ask me about it feel free to do so and I will respond to the best of my ability when I can.
I have nothing against watermarks on anywhere of the image as I do it too since I started this account but what really annoys me so much is people putting large watermarks all over their images as it ruins the atmosphere, it's not a problem if they show full view images behind their paywalls.
I can understand people really hate art thieves and don't want their art stolen but hear this: If you have your own unique art style and if someone uses it just remember your own art style is proof enough to know that the art is yours and people who uses your images are always their dumb moves and if they claim it, they don't have any proof of the tools they used or have any WIP files unless they credit you for the art but I'm not sure if people would still like that, so yeah always keep your WIP files and don't get too complainant. :P
How I watermark is putting the mark over the effects in the background so it's difficult to be removed and it won't have to be all over the image, keep in mind I do hand draw and always keep all my drawings in a box so at any event if someone steals my art and if they claim it? I have proof that it's really from me with showing the drawing and besides my unique style I draw is my identity so I don't think anybody would have any desire to steal my work, it makes me not worried but just in case, I have protocols to deal with this situation. XP
So yeah it's simple to put on watermarks on the corner of your image on the effects in the background that is hard to remove instead of large watermarks over your image, unless the images are adopts on offer which I find it fine to watermark over the image.
If you have any questions you wanna ask me about it feel free to do so and I will respond to the best of my ability when I can.
Everyone has different opinions about it though.
I agree, the repeated watermarks make the image far less enjoyable to look at, especially when they're on top of characters.
I don't think it's necessary to put watermarks excessively and/or in the middle of the image, unless you have at least two of the following three things:
1. Your artwork has high quality/technicality.
2. You are popular on social media.
3. It's known that somebody has stolen your artwork before.
I do get what you mean when needing to watermark over image if you have a large fanbase, I wouldn't blame them if their art gets sent to the dark web, that's really be worse case scenario! I wish it wasn't the case so watermarks doesn't have to be over the image, I would say they are necessary if their images are explicit and don't want them being uploaded to a sicko website which I'm not going to mention, at least some people make their watermarks transparent which you can hardly see.
I only had one of my art uploaded onto another site without me knowing but the watermark was there and I was credited so it didn't really bother me much, at least they didn't tamper with it but it could have been worse.