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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
translation icon : 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

stamp
vswatermark
73 1.0

A mark made by pressing or printing to show official approval

is embedded digitally and used to deter copying or trace use
marker
vswatermark
71 2.0

A sign or symbol that shows who something belongs to

is embedded in media to deter copying and track usage
marking
vswatermark
69 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
earmark
vswatermark
4 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

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.