what's up guys ryan here thank you for
joining me for a new video in this one
i want to talk about how we can make it
harder for people to rip off
our original artwork on redbubble i'm
going to explain to you
how watermarking and download protection
works and then i'm going to show you how
you can enable it on all of your artwork
on redbubble this is especially
important
to make it harder for people to rip off
our original work because that's
becoming
more and more of a common occurrence
sadly
with print on demand lately so and i
don't know if it's ever going away but
at least if we do what i'm gonna show
you in this video
we can make it harder on the people that
are doing it so i'm gonna go jump on my
computer and we can get started
thanks again for joining me guys this is
gonna be a good video that's gonna
provide a lot of value because
for every time you don't get ripped off
meaning someone doesn't clone your
design
that should ultimately result in more
sales at least if it's a design that
people are buying so real quick before
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all right let's talk watermarking on
redbubble so if you didn't know what
watermarking was
first let me show you and then let me
explain afterwards so what i've got here
is i zoomed in on that image of the
unicorn riding a t-rex
and you see those little like x and plus
sign
uh weird like light gray i don't even
know what to call them other than
watermarks but the plus signs and the
rotated plus signs
those are watermarks added by redbubble
the purpose of adding them
is to literally protect your design from
somebody just
right-clicking it and saving it and then
re-uploading it as their own
um it's not that watermarks can't be
removed i'm just saying
they can they can be removed like a
skilled graphic designer even like a
mildly skilled graphic designer
can still remove them but at least
you're making somebody's life harder
if you add watermarks to your work
now let me read to you from the
redbubble blog exactly what watermarks
are
according to them so watermarks were
first introduced in italy in
1282. that is a long time ago that is
700 and some years ago damn i didn't
even know that since their inception
watermarks
have been used on currency stamps and
any document where counterfeiting
was to be discouraged on redbubble we
offer you many options for using
watermarks and have just added a new
edition
the tiled watermark featuring the
redbubble logo now this
is dated 2018 so that's not new anymore
i don't even think that's an option
anymore
why watermarks are important there are
many reasons why creators enable
watermarks although nothing is 100
guarantee
both watermarks and download protection
help to discourage
would-be thieves from stealing your art
all right so in order to enable
watermarks you're going to want to click
the icon in the top right corner to open
up your navigation and then go to your
dashboard
from here on the left hand side of your
dashboard you're going to want to click
where it says
protect your work now
i'm going to show you what it looks like
with all of the different options by
default
you should have no watermark selected
now this is just a random design that i
chose off of redbubble i've been doing
the unicorns lately so i decided to pick
another one
and this is just the straight up graphic
as it was uploaded to redbubble
there's no watermarks on this and one
thing about redbubble that's different
about
them versus their competitors is they
tend to render
they never rendered the original graphic
that a an artist
like you and i upload they'll never
render the exact original graphic in
really high resolution but they do
render it on page at a pretty high
resolution which makes it a
prime like website for people to go to
steal designs so that's why we do want a
watermark
now if we select the second option which
says place a small watermark in the
corner of my images
this is from the redbubble blog example
which is a pretty terrible one but
in the bottom right corner it'll say
your display name
which may look something like this now
in this example they didn't actually
have any part of their design
in the bottom right corner so it looks
pretty good but it's also not stopping
any thief of a design from stealing it
this looks to me more like hey i'm an
artist and i'm signing my work
now the third option place a large
watermark in the center of my images
this one
is going to do more to deter people from
stealing your work
now this is the ugly example from the
redbubble blog
and here is a real world example from
another unicorn and princess or
something like that going on
it looks like a hand-drawn design
actually but you can see they've got the
watermark right there in the middle now
if someone wanted to steal this design
they're going to have their hands full
with removing that watermark so this is
actually a pretty good example of how
you may deter somebody but
my preferred method is to do the fourth
option
place a tiled watermark across my images
when you do this
you get the full watermark going across
the
i mean basically what it said across the
entire image you get those little
plus signs and the rotated plus signs
that become x's
they're light gray so they don't detract
too much from the overall design
like in my mind i don't envision this
really hurting
your conversion rate too much like if
anything probably less than a percentage
like some customers i mean it just is
what it is some people will get confused
by this
and not understand why it's there it's
just the world we live in
um most people i think understand what
watermarks are i mean they have been
around for almost 800 years
as we just learned and yeah i mean i
think it's a good idea especially if
you're
this sugar high uh shop which i really
love their designs by the way they're
really good
um they're protecting their work their
original artwork and you gotta respect
that
also as we mentioned the redbubble blog
said that it was new back in 2018 you
could watermark with the redbubble logo
now i don't see an option for this in
2020 so i'm assuming they replaced it
with the uh the plus and the
x's signs because they are a little bit
less intrusive
and a redbubble customer who's shopping
on there for the first time or that
clicked a link to redbubble from google
and has no clue what redbubble really is
they just want to buy a t-shirt with
that
with that design they may be very
confused by these redbubble logo
watermarks which is maybe why they might
have done away with it
all right and then also download
protection so
if you want to prevent people from
simply taking their mouse
right clicking and going to save image
as basically the easiest way anybody
could ever steal an image
you should have the download protection
checkbox
checked now in doing this it's not the
ultimate deterrent from
stopping people from downloading because
as a web developer i do know that
anytime you see an
image or a graphic on screen that means
that the asset the file
has been downloaded by the the person
that requested the page
you know web pages are actually just
code that renders
it's basically compiled in a web browser
i don't know i need to stop getting all
technical but
uh you can trust me i'm gonna get
technical for two seconds actually so
um i tried to right click the uh the
sugar high graphic here
and i did not have the option actually
no i did it says save as
maybe i'm wrong maybe they don't have
download protection enabled maybe it was
because on this one specifically
it still has the 2018 redbubble
watermarks so i could be wrong there
all right but actually i know they do
have the enabled
it said save as but maybe that's saving
the whole web page but now i'm
questioning everything
either way i'm pretty sure they do have
download protection on because when you
right click
i don't think you can save the image i
think normally it'll say
save image if you right right-click an
image so
when you have the download protection
enabled you can actually go into the
source code and there's just a little
bit of html
that's overlaid transparent on top of
the image but
behind the scenes the actual raw source
file not the it's not the actual raw
source file
but a scaled down version of it
is still there but here the purpose of
me sharing this i'm going to get to in a
second
there is a reason so even though we can
still grab the file
when you do watermarks so even if you're
a web developer
like me and you know how to get the
source file like the actual url
when you pull it in to a different tab
so now you're just looking at the image
file
you see that the watermarks are actually
in the image this is important because
you could have done watermarking a
separate way you know as a web developer
like i could just overlay the watermarks
as a separate
transparent file above the uh the
graphic itself
you know there's different ways to go
about this but redbubble is doing it the
right
way they are re-rendering
each image with the watermarks on top of
it
on their servers when we enable the
watermark option
which by the way if you enable
watermarks for your redbubble stuff and
you experience a delay
that may be why that would actually make
sense so this is actually again from the
blog
not seeing the tiled watermark enabled
on your designs they say ensure you've
updated the changes in your account
settings and click save changes
try clearing your cache or refreshing
the page so you can hit ctrl
f5 or mac is probably command f5 for a
hard refresh
you can also go incognito by the way to
clear your cache but
when i did it on mine it took about it
took probably 10 to 15 minutes
and i have a lot of uploads like a lot
uh you don't have as much as me probably
but
i have to like over 10 000 but
ultimately it did get done
and they eventually appeared and i
didn't have to clear my cache i didn't
have to go incognito
it just takes time which makes sense
because they're re-rendering every
graphic with the watermarks on the
server side so
they're doing it the right way that's
why i gave it the thumbs up emoji on the
left hand side just wanted to let you
guys know
how it worked how to enable it go take
care of it
this will prevent the likelihood it's
not that it's gonna guarantee stop
people from ripping off your designs but
it's gonna prevent the likelihood of it
happening
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