Despite this rather unconventional form of watermarks, these watermarks can protect your work very well. Their varying colors are designed (but not proven to) make it harder for software to “see thru” the image.
If you are using these images frequently, I recommend that you keep it on your desktop
Credits @landon90 - First Image
Disobeyedcrab04 - Second Image (not tagged because he said you didn’t need to credit him, he won’t get a notification this way)
Honestly, I don’t mean to seem rude, but they’re kind of obstructive. I get that you don’t want people to steal your GFX, but I can barely see what you’ve made! In my humble opinion, it would be better of scribbling with a brush and setting the transparency to a somewhat low number with also adding your name to it. But great concept!
No offence, this comment is just for feedback. It’s just coloured squares copy and pasted in different colours. Most people put their names all over things for watermarks.
An interesting idea, however took much of the image obstructed to make it practical. Also, since there’s not indication that you made it, someone can easily claim it as their own.
I think you are all missing the point here. Transparency can be applied and your name can be overlaid. This allows you to show a client a preview of the commission before paying you to ensure a fair trade. The colored watermark makes it useless, but it can be transparent enough to get the quality and point across. Then they pay you, and you give them the non watermarked version. They don’t need to be pretty, they need to prevent art theft while you prove that you completed the commission.
I definitely like your creativity and unique way of pursuing this sort of topic, not something I can say for many people. But I personally would use a much simpler form, being the casual name/text watermark.
With some intermediate skills and a photo editing software like Photoshop, you can easily remove simple, transparent watermarks. The watermarks this post provides makes it much harder(and probably impossible without it looking distorted) to remove them.
With a couple of tools and the crazy new Content-Aware Fill, this will still be possible to remove on simpler graphics. When it becomes a very complex thumbnail, it becomes harder to cover up, but it still may be possible.
