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Nov 23.2005

[URL=http://bokehman.com/watermark]Article on watermarking images.[/URL] Any opinions greatfully accepted.

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@SheldonNov 23.2005 — Ah i like it, Nice easy to understand and a good idea!
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 23.2005 — Whargh! that's a *scary* face!
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@rincewind456Nov 23.2005 — Great but what's it supposed to do!

If it's to stop anyone from stealing your images, then it is a complete failure.

Here's your image without the watermark.

That took about ten seconds to crack.

[upl-file uuid=2ac751cb-a4b7-4983-bc2d-2f1b89ea8633 size=83kB]bokeh_Image.png[/upl-file]
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@NogDogNov 23.2005 — Great but what's it supposed to do!

If it's to stop anyone from stealing your images, then it is a complete failure.

Here's your image without the watermark.

That took about ten seconds to crack.[/QUOTE]
I believe for the demo he's not actually using a watermarked image, but using CSS to overlay the copyright image over the main background image.

It might help to avoid confusion to just use an actually watermarked image - or maybe one without and one with the watermark, sort of a before and after?
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 23.2005 — Great but what's it supposed to do!

If it's to stop anyone from stealing your images, then it is a complete failure.

Here's your image without the watermark.

That took about ten seconds to crack.[/QUOTE]

As NogDog said, i don't believe the image is suppose to show the watermarked image, but how it would look if it was watermarked (when you roll over)
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@bokehauthorNov 23.2005 — If it's to stop anyone from stealing your images, then it is a complete failure.[/QUOTE]That is a before and after demo. The unwatermarked image is shown first and then onmouseover the whole image is swapped to the image that has been watermarked by the GD library. Nogdog is right when he says it seems as if the copyright notice is overlaid over the source image but in reality it is not true, the whole image is being swopped.

Did anyone else have trouble understanding this is a before and after demonstration?

This system may not stop people stealing your images (what system could) but it does discourage people from linking to them remotely.
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYNov 23.2005 — maybe you should add a caption with "before-after" under the image, or as the image title
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