Watermarking the HI images

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Kazeryu

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As mentioned here, watermarking the HI site's images to discourage/prevent fraud is being considered. I'm hoping Yangdu will give us the go-ahead on this one!

All right, I'm still working on a few samples of different methods for watermarking -- I'll have those up in a bit.

For now, a font needs to be picked for the text in the watermark. I've done up a little sample watermark with 13 different fonts which I think could work out for HI. Here they are: --Scroll down, there is a fourteenth option below--

Final choice is Yangdu's, of course. :)

One last note: I know the curve of the text isn't perfectly lined up on every single one -- It's not worth the effort of tweaking each one to perfection just for evaluation purposes. Whatever ends up being picked will get the full nit-pick/gripe treatment.
 
1, 4 or 11. You want unobtrusive readibility.

BTW, I know this is a lot of work, so thanks for volunteering.

A good deed.



Mike
Ad Astra
 
That 14 is very cool! Thanks, man! After seeing our pics on other websites, a little protection would certainly be welcome.

Chris
 
I like #14 the best.

Andy
 
The uncial in #2 is nice. Very similar alphabets were used in the early Roman empire.

I also like #12. The long ascenders remind me of the Carolingian alphabet adopted by emperor Charlemange, although there are some obvious differences between the old emperor's alphabet and this one.

#9 works for me too.

Is the "-" between "Himalayan" and "Imports" needed?
 
make the text larger on #14 and that will be my favorite.
 
nasty - once a watermark is applied, you can't just strip off the text using mspaint. It will require a fair amount of effort and experience using clone, push, and soften brushes to remove the text without leaving an obvious smear. Most scam artists will just look for easier targets rather than exerting this effort.
 
I like #2, #3, and #12. #14 is nice but I think it would look better if the line above the text didn't extend across the space between words.

Thanks for putting in the effort, Kazeryu. This is what I love about the HI forums.

-Tycho-
 
I got a bit distracted last night by the pineapple incident and my GRS arriving. I hope to have those samples up sometime tonight.
 
Thank you so very much for your suggestion of water marking the HI site's images so they can not be used by others. Legally, they cannot be used by others even now, but this would certainly be more of a deterent so yes, you have my permission to do so. My sincere thanks.
 
Just a thought.

The knife world is not a zero sum game. Any interest that developes market for Khuks can only benifit HI. Thus if some small timer swipes a few images and manages to sell a few khuks those buyers will eventually find HI as well.

As a counter measure it would almost serve Yangdu and HI to contact those offenders and offer assistance in developing the product.

The more interest, people, business and businesses we can draw to the knife world in general and the Khuk world specifcally the more HI and Yangdu benifit.

More over there could be postive market responce to magnamus gestures and to behavior that embraces open market ideas.

Just a thought....
 
bigjim said:
Just a thought.

The knife world is not a zero sum game. Any interest that developes market for Khuks can only benifit HI. Thus if some small timer swipes a few images and manages to sell a few khuks those buyers will eventually find HI as well.

As a counter measure it would almost serve Yangdu and HI to contact those offenders and offer assistance in developing the product.
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While I appreciate and applaud your sentiment, I can't agree with you. Getting scammed by some 'Nepal House' is more likely to shrink the market than develop it. Someone who gets scammed by some 'nepalese bent knife merchant' is likely to badmouth the whole experience to their friends, generating distrust on the whole topic.

Also, anybody who steals pics and markets them as their own products is clearly not on the level. Someone who is willing to cheat their customers outright is not likely to change their ways. I suspect they would accept any material support we offered them and then disappear like the wind.

That's my two cents. I wished the world wasn't like that, but it seems that we're stuck with things the way they are.
 
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