How to Remove a Watermark LIKE A JERK

[@aaronrutten]

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[@aaronrutten]

That's a great tip. I sometimes hide my initials in my artwork, but if it's hidden, then it's not really protecting anything.

[@Samlol23_drrich]

I have the perfect solution to art theft. Nobody would ever even try to steal my artwork. Because it SUCKS. There you go. Problem solved. Great video

[@valiyar7541]

samlol23: makes a joke Abhishek: whats a joke? is it a potato

[@benjamingrambs4540]

I bet your artwork is fantastic and at least 10x better than you think it is

[@Samlol23_drrich]

@@benjamingrambs4540 well I give it a ZERO out of ten. So 10x that..............

[@GothicGreen]

Great yet disturbing video Aaron. Thank you.

[@aaronrutten]

You're welcome, Robert Summers.

[@JoakimTeixeira]

Hmmm... Very interesting Aaron. I was going to start posting my art, this helped me a lot.

[@aaronrutten]

Glad it was helpful.

[@LuminaNinetales]

Omg thank u, it's so useful to know how to protect your art

[@celestecelestial90]

I'm here to remove my own watermark. I put a watermark on a photo, then accidentally deleted the phot without the watermark and now I can't use my own photo in my other design work. LOL I would never remove someone else's watermark to steal their work.

[@brunauni0846]

Now i'm going to put a lot of almost invisible, but still a little bit visible signatures in hidden places

[@AquaUu]

BrunaUni08 but then no one will see it

[@VictorGamerLOL]

and i need the watermark off my school photo. they want me to pay 17.5£ for a digital photo. And you are telling me to do not be a jerk, those guys are jerks for making it expensive they deserve it

[@aaronrutten]

While I can agree that it's lame to have to pay for something you feel is overpriced, you should also consider the point of view of the person who is providing you with a service. The photographer needs to make money to keep his job, so there are reasons why they charge for digital copies. I personally get annoyed too when I have to pay for digital copies, but I also have done photography work, so I understand why and respect that pricing structure.

[@VictorGamerLOL]

@@aaronrutten, it's not a photographer. It's an *_ENTIRE COMPANY_* that has a website and everything else

[@ryantulloch7835]

I really hope no one actually uses this technique because photo theft is a thing, and when you steal photos from other people, removing their watermarks, its wrong. As a photographer, I know how this feels. Dont be jerks. We photographers go through a lot of work to produce really nice pictures. If you want really nice pictures, go spend a couple days on it like we do

[@aaronrutten]

I agree!

[@lore_nza]

i use it to remove watermarks from the mind maps i make in the trial version of a pc program lol

[@JadeAnnabelArt]

I still use watermarks but also to bring people to my art blog. Other than that I only upload jpeg. PNG files go on my patreon without a watermark.

[@Lloerau]

Thank you for creating such a serious video! I thought watermarking did a better job to protect artwork, to be honest:/

[@rupertkempley1610]

Thanks Aaron promise not to use this knowledge for nefarious purposes regards from DEVON UK

[@KankaWasTaken]

even though I knew the first methods the last one is a pretty neat idea and also pretty effective! Thanks for that

[@aaronrutten]

You're welcome!

[@jilliancrawford7577]

Dumb question, but do people really publish their watermarks online? By this, I guess I'm asking if they publish it raw like a transparent .png. If so, why? Couldn't that allow people to stamp your watermark on th9nhs you didn't draw like troll art to ruin someone's reputation?

[@aaronrutten]

It's not that artists publish their watermarks, it's that artists often use their logo as a watermark. They aren't publishing their logos per se, but when you upload your logo to be displayed as part of your website, the individual logo file can be downloaded easily. Even if the logo/watermark isn't available online, it's not terribly difficult to recreate one by tracing over it in a vector application. You can get transparent PNGS of just about any famous logo if you search online. I'm sure most of them were replicated by a third party. I've not heard of anyone using another artist's logo to be a troll, but it could be a possibility. I would imagine that the consequences of impersonation could be pretty harsh. Plus anyone who is even remotely famous has their own account, so if the artwork were posted by a different username, it would be obvious that it were a fake. The original source image could easily be reverse-image searched to figure out who the original author was.

[@tectoramia-sz1lu]

I just don't see the point in using watermarks. I've never bothered .

[@yanyanyan25]

How about creating a checkered black and white logo and use it as a watermark? then never upload the that checkered logo anywhere. if they darken the lighter part of the watermark, the dark parts will become darker.

[@nahalitet11111111111]

The big watermark can be seen on the blacks of the body of the dragon though. For a fast fix it is okay, but you can definitely do a better job on making it flawlessly... EDIT: A better tip I would suggest is to leave a very small watermark somewhere in the picture, where it is noticeable only if you zoom a lot. My father uses this method and honestly, there is no way to tell, unless you know where exactly the watermark is positioned

[@esaugalindo4733]

I have a dark logo but when you put it on your pictures or artwork it’s a light in color depends on the picture can they still steal your work

[@elnath1978]

How about publishing a picture half in black and white tones?

[@Davidevgen]

not even uploading it small is safe. there a tool called walfu2x that effectively increases resolution of a drawing and improves compression and detail nearly perfectly. just saying.

[@natsukikanzaki]

😢

[@Davidevgen]

@Centopeia Informativa its not a lie. look it up yourself.

[@renatorosa402]

Do you have a classic super nintendo? hehehe

[@LovelyDollsAndToys]

Love the title and the content :D

[@Mitgardxxl]

Cool work. Lovely.

[@aklaspilotas]

So if you were to make a watermark with inconsistent opacity it woult be unremovable.

[@IanBemolator]

Great video! At first I was triggered, but then I was enlightened haha!

[@twinglocks1575]

Ian Bemolator why were U triggered?????????

[@turkeygobblegod]

Twin Glocks Art theft

[@Soulsphere001]

I was thinking about using blending modes to remove watermarks. Also, you could probably create a script that could find and recreate a watermark. Or you might even be able to use the RGB layers or even the curves tool to make the watermark more visible and recreate it yourself. There's really no way to stop people from stealing art, no matter what, but you can make it easy to prove that someone stole it. The best way to protect your art is by adding in things that only you know about. Little consistent designs in your art, for instance, that people won't notice. That way you can always point to one of those designs to prove that the art is yours.

[@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418]

But nobody buys art work or prints anyway. Nobody buys things these days.

[@aaronrutten]

True

[@cfgdr3]

@@aaronrutten A few of us buy prints. But only if it's something we really like. We still need to support the artists/creators or they just might stop sharing/creating.

[@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418]

@Centopeia Informativa like once a customer pays for the artwork, it erases from the internet completely and nobody else can find it. Thats the only way to get around the problem of easy digital reproduction.

[@soroashsultan6406]

Nice video How can I do this in videos?😕

[@aaronrutten]

Same process, but add 1,000 hours

[@soroashsultan6406]

@@aaronrutten sed lyf😭

[@strawberryflavouredcloroxb1565]

i always forget to put watermarks on my art...

[@zgamez129]

Alternative Title: "How to steal a picture"

[@aaronrutten]

Or "how not to get your picture stolen"

[@LionArtStudio]

Hey Aaron, have you seenThomas Churchwells videos directly slamming you? I don’t know he even has a channel little less followers, maybe you can have him banned for the crap he’s posting......

[@LionArtStudio]

Aaron Rutten yeah fair enough, I've come across him before in the community.....Not a nice person, to say the least.

[@LionArtStudio]

Aaron Rutten yeah, you are probably right...... just wanted to give you a heads up.

[@aaronrutten]

Much appreciated!

[@KIMMsTV]

Thank you, it helped me a lot.

[@aaronrutten]

You're welcome!

[@Jacob-ib4zx]

Turning your digital art into an NFT is the best way to secure it online

[@howdybois7472]

The fbi wants to know your current location

[@aaronrutten]

Impersonating a federal agent is a crime

[@howdybois7472]

I was just kidding lmao

[@40watt53]

isnt this illegal

[@aaronrutten]

What's illegal is using copyrighted work without permission. As stated in this video, I encourage people not to misuse the work of others.

[@lastlombaxx]

THANKS TO YOU SOME PPLS ART İS GETTİNG STOLEN THANK YOU YOU CRİMİNAL

[@aaronrutten]

Actually, the point of this video is to prevent artists from getting their work stolen by raising awareness about how easy it is to remove watermarks. If you bothered to watch the video, you'd see that I'm offering solutions to art theft, not condoning it. I even call out people for stealing art.

[@jacobmccloskey171]

Thanks man

[@aaronrutten]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@sunniivaarts4328]

How to steal art .-.

[@aaronrutten]

Only if you completely miss the point. Actually, it's how to protect art.

[@sunniivaarts4328]

It's just what you expect when you see the thumbnail, I watched the whole video

[@Bryster51]

Not very ethical Aaron. Just showing folks creative ways of protecting ones work online would be good enough. Showing how to remove watermarks educate.

[@aaronrutten]

There are dozens of tutorials out there already, so it really doesn't matter does it?

[@Bryster51]

Aaron Rutten This is true, but why add another source of this info. You already enlightened a responder about not knowing one method. Its sad to go with that style of thinking. "Here, let me show you the different ways in how to break into a car, but dont do it as its not legal" Same principal. Those principals, and ethics are so lost these days.

[@aaronrutten]

We can agree to disagree. I think most people are going to understand the value of this video because it shows that watermarks are completely ineffective. I'm saving people the hassle of finding that out the hard way. My video also points out, in the very beginning, that it's just as useless to remove a watermark because the copyright holder can easily reverse-image search to find violators.

[@Bryster51]

Aaron Rutten Agreed, watched the whole thing. Keep up your good work!

[@aaronrutten]

Thanks!