Happy that your photos are safe online hidden behind aggressive watermarking? Maybe it’s time to reconsider. New Google research shows that a lot of watermarks, including those used by major stock websites, can be easily removed automatically by computers.
But there’s a way to prevent it. Using clever AI algorithms, it’s possible for a computer […]. petapixel.com
AI images generated on OpenAI's DALL-E 3 will now have a watermark added to them from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). [Read More]
Adobe and a host of other companies have unveiled a new symbol that can be tagged onto content that establishes an image's provenance. [Read More]
It's no secret that photographers are scared about watermarking and that it's often been seen as a faux pas for lots of us out there. But watermarking is something that I've always found to be essential not only for protection of your images, but also for branding.
Lots of photographer who need to export their images with watermarks don't really know how to do that in Capture One Pro 11. This will clear up the confusion. You see, Capture One used to have the watermarking feature built into the most common way to export images, which is by going to file, then export, then variants.
Imatag is a new service that uses invisible watermarks to protect photographs from copyright infringement. With the development of AI technology that can easily remove physical watermarks, more covert solutions could be a solution for photographers looking to identify and prove ownership of copied images online.
Here’s a simple way to create a digital watermark using your signature that you can use as a Photoshop brush. This 5-minute video from Colin Smith of photoshopCAFE shows you the steps needed using just a paper, pencil, and a smartphone.
Google recently published a paper showing how easy it is for a computer to detect an identical watermark from a large collection of photos and then cleanly remove that watermark from each photo. Shutterstock has responded to Google’s AI by developing a new randomized watermark that counters it.