I’ve been looking at a lot of watermarks designs, though I already made watermark for 2023, but I’m gonna remake it or at least redesign it. Though I did manage to create a stamp watermark in krita easily.
Questions I have to ask my self for remaking watermark, is it readable/recognizable at least. Cause if the watermark isn’t readable it not exactly helpful.
a few watermark tutorial resources below though not krita relate, I still find them helpful
I’m not very fond of watermarks, even though I understand the reasons why one might want to put a watermark, and I’ve been guilty of doing so myself in the past. I think it takes away too much from the original image, especially the kind shown in the twitter thread you linked, and anyone with enough time and motivation can remove it anyway. Sure, it makes the threshold for stealing art higher, but at the cost of making your art less enjoyable to everyone else.
To me, a good watermark should make the original author of the artwork easy to find, without covering important parts or grabbing attention. I appreciate seeing the artist’s name in a corner of the artwork in case I want to find more, Loish, for instance, is a great example of this.
Like you, I can understand why it’s used but usually when I see a watermark on an artwork (to be more precise: a watermark that pollute too much artwork) I just ignore the artwork; I want to appreciate quality of artwork, not the quality of watermark.
I use watermarks on my work. I like to choose a decorative but legible font and I use 2 layers, both with an opposite mode (Addition, Subtract, or Multiply, Divide) which will make them seem to disappear. Then I adjust the position and opacity of both until I like it (drop shadow effect.) Depending on the artwork, I’ll change things and not do the drop shadow.
Yeah that the issue with making that big of a watermarks huh? making it less enjoyable for both artist and everyone else, I keep thinking how there’s comics/artwork I love but I can’t find the artist because their watermark wasn’t on it. Though reverse image engine exist it just take longer then typing up the name.
that is quite interesting technique, I might try that.
