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Any tips on how best to watermark?
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Hi folks.
Does anyone have any experience/tips on how best to watermark my painting/illustration images, please?
I've seen differing examples, such as in one place on the image (with one name), or in several repeated places across the image, or as a diagonal line of text/name etc...
so I'm wondering whether there is experience of the pros and cons and whether there is a 'best-practise' approach that will do the job well.
It obviously wants to be subtle/translucent, and just strong enough to discourage any copying/reusing.
(I create low resolution versions for my social feeds, so I'm not concerned there, but this is for a website I'm building for myself, and I want to use better resolution images, for those moments when you click on to see a better/larger version)
Thanks in advance
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Most of the appropriate software for editing photos has a facility to watermark - they vary in their degrees of intrusiveness; I tend not to use them; not that I'm indifferent to my work being stolen, but so far as I know it hasn't yet happened to me: I'd be a bit keener to explore the options if it had. I'm sure someone on here knows the best means of doing it, even if no one else has yet noticed your question.
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Thanks Robert and Marjorie.
I'm okay with the process/software when making the watermarks, but it's more thoughts on the 'visual' decisions/best-practise (location, size, frequency/density, angle etc) that I would like some help with, if anyone has any thoughts. Thank you all.
(PS I searched the forum for 'watermarks' and two older threads came up, but there was no discussion within them over the aesthetics side of the topic. )