Creating Safe and Effective Watermarks

Creating Safe and Effective Watermarks
Creating Safe and Effective Watermarks

Watermarking is a common method for enhancing copyright protection. By adding a watermark to your photos, most users won't be able to steal your photo. But did you know that watermarks can be undone? In this article, you'll learn how watermarks are removed and how to protect your images by adding watermarks that are difficult to remove.

Please be advised that we do not condone removing watermarks for the purpose of stealing or duplicating works by others. We will not reveal any advance watermark removal techniques.

Watermarking Mistakes

Adding a watermark will stop some from illegally using the image, but there are still many left who will take the time to remove the watermarks. Watermarking over a plain or simple background is unsafe against those with strong intentions to illegally use the image. Here's why:

Watermark Over a Plain Background

Watermark Over a Plain Background

Watermark Over a Simple Background

Watermark Over a Simple Background

Watermarks Can be Undone

Anyone with a strong background with advance image editors like Photoshop can remove watermarks. If they can duplicate your watermark, they can remove the watermark from your photo. We won't show you how to remove the watermarks, but we'll show you how safe different types of watermarks are and then we'll show you how to prevent advance watermark removals. For someone to remove the watermark techniques shown next requires that the user be able to accurately duplicate the watermark.

50% Opacity Watermark

50% Opacity Watermark

50% Opacity + Color Watermark

50% Opacity + Color Watermark

50% Opacity + Color + Overlay Watermark

Creating Safe and Effective Watermarks Photography Tutorial
50% Opacity + Color + Overlay Watermark

50% Opacity + Emboss

50% Opacity + Emboss

How to Create Safe Watermarks

Follow these guidelines to create safe watermarks that are difficult to remove.

Place the Watermark on a Busy Background

This method prevents the simplest watermark removal techniques; painting. It'll take more than Microsoft Paint to remove this watermark!

Use a Large Watermark

Use a large watermark that fills most of the image. This will make it difficult to remove the watermark suing the Clone Stamp or Healing Brush tool.

Large Watermark

Use at least 50% Opacity

The lower the opacity, the easier it is to remove the watermark and the less visible the artifacts will be. It is mostly better to use an opaque watermark rather over a small area than a translucent watermark over a large area.

Make the Watermark Hard to Duplicate

Some of the advance watermark removal techniques require duplicating the effect 100% accurately. To prevent this, make the watermark hard to duplicate by using unique fonts, type settings, and effect. Consider adding more than text, such as a logo or a unique shape

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One comment on “Creating Safe and Effective Watermarks”

  1. Thank you for the tips. Busy designing a watermark in photoshop and has no clue what I was doing, thinking of going with 60% opacity for some video tutorials I'm making. I've had people steal my videos and re-post on Youtube so watermarks is a must. The thing I don't like about watermarks is sometimes on videos it can interfere with what the user can see. So I put it in the corners to avoid that. Let's hope it's too much effort for someone to try to remove them :) Thanks again for the tips!

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