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[Pythonfriend]

Sadly watermarks are becoming increasinly necessary these days if you don't want scammers using your pictures to rip people off. There are ways they can be made more subtle though.

there are so many pictures without watermarks out there that scammers would just pick one of these hundreds of thousands of pictures. making your own 50 or so pictures so ugly that they dont enlarge the pool of pictures scammers can use from 100000 to 100050 is like shooting yourself in the foot. its a real disadvantage for you, but i dont see a benefit for you or anyone else.

if you want a watermark, go for an invisible one. for example, if you change the last bit of the color code from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1, there is no visual difference because the color difference for individual pixels will be too subtle to be seen. thats 1 bit per pixel that you can hide all across the image without changing its appearance at all. there is lots of different technology out there that hides code, invisible to the human eye, in the pixels of an image. the german youtube channel sempervideo has a bunch of tutorials.

and if you dont like the appearance of your current logo, putting it all across the image in huge size is still worse than just putting it in a corner.