in light of smaugust coming up, I’m gonna try a little twist on it: Deathclaugust. There’s more selection than the usual 31, but I’m gonna just random gen the day’s theme and go with that!
absolutely batshit insane to me that omegaverse porn is an effective data poisoning method against gpt-based products. predatory language models getting tripped up by wolf dick was not on my 2023 bingo card but here we are i guess.
This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.
I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.
I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.
Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.
Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.
Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:
All selected?
Good.
Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.
You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.
Either way, let's add some color to the text.
Once that's finished,
You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect
You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.
Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.
This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.
Hooray, you've finished your watermark!
Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.
You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.
From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.
If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.
And for lots of black, you have Linear Light
Either way, you're in business!
EDIT since this has escaped my usual circles, and folks aren't as familiar with my personal usage:
An example of one of my own finished pieces, with watermark, so you can see what I mean about 'relatively unobtrusive'-- I try to at least use them as framing devices, or let them work with the image somehow (or, at the very least, not actively against it).
I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still letting it serve its intended purpose.
There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!
Roxy I’m sorry to say that I first knew you from Reddit and only discovered your Tumblr because amogus euthanasia was on every tumblr and furry subreddit
“umm arts not a real job ://“ show me a stock. put a stock. into my hands. you cannot do that can you? but you know what i can do? i can draw you giant furry boobs and place that gentley into your palms. who of us is the truer man. who of us provides at the end of the day. look me in the eyes
sorry to be cringey but can we stop this idea that every furry is a sex hungry freak that likes bestiality and has really disturbing kinks. being a furry is just thinking anthropomorphic animals are interesting and cute. theres nothing inherently sexual about being a furry. just because someone says “im a furry” they arent necessarily confessing to you how they get horny for foxes with tits or diapers on dogs or something. so when u see someone make a fursona or draw an anthro animal, dont immediately think “they wanna fuck animals”. sometimes its just that….anthro animals….are fun to draw.
Also, furries are one of the best and most generous when it comes to supporting artists. When they commission an artist to draw something, they as a group tend to pay the best rates and be the most reliable.
Also furry communities are overwhelmingly queer - like statistically, I mean, just for example, the number of transgender furries is ten times higher than the general population, and like only 1 in 4 furries are straight.
Which is like? Firstly, not a surprise that something steeped in alter-ego resonates for queer people, especially trans people.
And secondly, also super not surprising that it’s a community that is massively oversexualized and denigrated as sexually deviant. Like, js it’s a tale as old as time to target an overlapping interest group as a guise to target a minority demographic.
And targeting sexual shaming at queer-dense populations, hah! HAH, I’m not surprised.
I’m not even goddamn kidding, seriously. A huge chunk of bullying directed at the furry community is just socially acceptable queerphobia.
this man is leveraging his presence in a niche community to advertise his tax services and you’re sat here with your thumb up your ass thinking this precludes advanced robotics somehow. we should all someday be so lucky as Tax Badger
“My doors are only closed to wall street” Tax Badger just went from cool dude to legend.
[Description: Top image, a profile page for Tax Badger, a self-described “Tax business for furries!” with a drawing of a badger dressed in a suit and looking very professional. Second image, from his twitter, someone in DMs asking “I know you do taxes for furries but do you do taxes for non-furry, furry-friendly NSFW content creators?” Tax Badger replies “Of course! Furries are my target client, but my doors are only closed to wall street.”]
NSFW artists are both highly in demand and highly ostracized, sometimes by the very same people who patron their work. They’ll have a few who genuinely support them up, but if hard issues hit, like say, an audit (TAXES), can you imagine a smut or hentai artist taking all of their paperwork and numbers to the local H&R? Sitting down and explaining their business expenses- some of which might include porn conventions, or printing and distributing 18+ adult content on their own dime. That sounds doable, right?
The JUDGEMENT ALONE would be exhausting, constantly defending yourself and your work when it’s actually in high demand, and that’s assuming you can even find someone willing to help. Any bullshit excuse could send you out the door.
Do not, EVER, turn your nose up at a professional offering their services to a niche group of people. Because one day, you may find yourself in a niche, suddenly in need of a pro hookup- for something that the average career person can get out of a quick google search (I totally had to delete the words ‘phone book’), but find nothing but slim pickings for your market.
I always love seeing this comic because it interprets Tumblr as a gigantic theater ruled by absolute chaos where sometimes somebody just stands up on their chair and shouts and we all pay attention
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