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💻 Ownership mark 📄 Faint paper design 🌊 High water mark 🖼️ To mark for copyright
watermark

watermark

5 4.2
A visible or hidden mark in a digital file that shows ownership
  • noun
  • /ˈwɔːtərˌmɑrk/
  • Specialized
: marca de agua digital
  • I've been looking for a decent watermark tool, and I use Windows Live Writer quite a bit.
  • digital watermark
  • include a watermark
  • read watermarks

And in fact, Open AI now has a hidden watermark that says this image is made by AI.

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Examples

  • Also, is there a free program that you can use to put a watermark on your photos?

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  • Fortunately, the picture still had your watermark, and I found you.

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  • Enter text that you want to use as the watermark for your photo.

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  • And in fact, Open AI now has a hidden watermark that says this image is made by AI.

    Film Courage

  • Are those possibly watermarks on your image of the document?

  • And now all my wallpapers have a lovely copyright watermark on them.

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  • So he examines the files and pulls off the digital watermark, which tells you what computer it was created on.

    Burn After Reading (2008)

  • To further blend your watermark text into your background, try adjusting the blending mode as well.

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  • Professional photographers who steal others' work purposely paste their own watermark on it and pass it off as their own.

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  • The video included a watermark on the bottom bearing the Twitter handle.

Synonyms

marker
vswatermark
89 2.0

A sign or symbol that shows who something belongs to

is embedded in media to deter copying and track usage
stamp
vswatermark
74 1.0

A mark made by pressing or printing to show official approval

is embedded digitally and used to deter copying or trace use
earmark
vswatermark
5 5.6

A clear feature that helps you recognize someone or something

is an embedded identifier in media used to show ownership or trace use
marking
vswatermark
4 3.0

A pattern or sign on something that helps you tell it apart

is an embedded identifier for media that can track usage and deter copying

Surface Forms

watermark singular
watermarks plural

Morphology

watermark = water + mark (opaque) = water + mark

Although the compound structure is real, the digital-media sense is a specialized metaphorical extension and is not predictable from the literal meanings of 'water' and 'mark'.

Etymology

The digital watermark borrows its name from the paper idea and means a visible or hidden 'mark' put into an image, audio, or video to show who owns it or to stop copying. It is called a watermark because, like the paper version, it travels with the file to prove origin or ownership.