Is the text on the new watermark bigger? It just seems that much more intrusive on 1680x1050

Great job on the udate. I run both Linux and windows xp on both of my computers. So I don't know what the water line looks like on the windows seven taskbar, but I know on linux I have no problem. The wallpaper looks great. Keep up the good work. I am now at 8K plus wallpapers, and yours are among my very best. Keep up the good work.



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=/ I don't get the watermark at all since my monitor's resolution isn't exactly standard. I use 2048x1152, so I download the 2560x1600 renders and resize/crop them to 16:9 and bam, no watermark. =/ Although, I do get the watermark on my secondary monitor which is at 1680x1050, and I actually enjoy advertising when I post my desktop... Might be too much to ask but maybe add 2048x1152 renders? =)

Hey Ryan. I have afterglow up on a 46" 1080p TV with Win 7 RC. Normally your watermark is visible. However, due to the size of the screen and the resolution, I am using the "125%" option which makes text, icons and the start bar bigger--hiding your watermark.

well i took a picture of my 30" so Ryan and others could have a idea of how big this watermark is relating the older watermark...





Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!





it is a bit bigger then the old one.. still due to the shadow "effect" this new watermark has to be a bit bigger so the shadow effect can be seen.



still think Ryan could try his signature on the pic instead =) just to see how it looks!

Maybe a little smaller? The watermark now appears twice the size as previous on my Apple 23" Cinema Display (which still works!).

in my previous post below in the first line i meant:



"Ryan CAN'T remove it's watermark!"



sorry for the typo! =)

Ryan can remove it's watermark!



is like Ferrari or Porsche selling cars without their logo or name on it!



it's a competitive world and everything needs a mark!



Ryan ever thought in just instead of "digitalblpasphemy.com"

you should just sign them with your own name?



yeah like Picasso or Van Goth!

just leave a visible thin stylish signature on your awesome work!



"Ryan Bliss"



the only thing against it is that people would know the artist but not the website!

but then again if someone googles your name it goes directly to digitalblasphemy!



think about it.. is not hard to try your own signature! :)

Don't get me wrong man, I understand the need for the watermark. It's just a personal preference that I like it off. I'm way too anal with my desktop lol. I even make my own icons. I like it to be JUST so. Here's a pic of it:



http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/4295/desktoppye.jpg



Beyond anal. I'm all about uniformity and symmetry, and the watermark throws it out of whack for me. But I absolutely understand the need for it. I just wanted to know if anybody else removed it before putting the wallpaper on their desktop, that's all.

I like the watermark. It is how you sign your artwork, and to me it seems natural for the artist's signature to be on the work that any artist creates, whether it's by traditional means such as paints or pencils or whether it's by digital means, like you do. Even sculptors usually put a mark on the base of their statues somewhere. And you deserve credit for your pictures. They are so beautiful.



I like the new watermark better than the old one. It's smoother and more polished, and seems to integrate with the picture better than your old-style watermark. But, to be honest, I probably wouldn't have noticed the changes if you hadn't pointed them out. I couldn't even tell the difference at first without switching back and forth from an old pic to this one. :-) (I'm on a MacBook Pro with 1440x900 res, using 1900x1200 and using the "fill screen" option in desktop preferences, and the watermark position is the same height above the screen bottom (measuring at the top of the letters) on both the old one and the new one, if that gives you any useful information.)



Does the easier procedure for applying the new watermark mean that you might have time now to go back and do high-res postings of some of your older works that haven't received the high-res treatment yet? (Fingers crossed!)

I still have XP with a dual screen setup. The taskbar only appears in the left hand monitor, so the watermark is always there. No problems.

I also don't mind the watermark, I see it as the artist signature ;)



I really liked the old one, big enough to read and know it was their but not so big to intrude on the image. Also placment was perfect, about 5-10 pixels above the task bar. This new one, while bigger, is ok looking but the enboss is too deep (But thats just MHO). It is also too low, the 'g, p, & y' drop behind the taskbar on my machine. Running Vista64 at 1680x1050



Thanks again for the great work!

Folks, once you get used to having your taskbar at the top you'll HATE machines with them on the bottom.



After all, default is boring right? DRAG IT TO THE TOP!!



;)

I could use an edit button here :-)



There is a text in the lower tight corner: digitalblasphemy.com - is that the "watermark" yoou are talking about? It doesn't seem to have changed recently.

Just to be sure that it was not a scaling issue, I tried afterglow2k911680. Still no discernible watermark.

A couple of simple corrections:

My main monitor uses 1680x1050 ofc. The other one is set to 1280*1024

I set afterglow2k9a1920 as my wallpaper, but I don't see any watermark. Same with afterglow2k911920.



I use Vista and my screen is 1650x1050. My taskbar is on the left side of the screen and not set to autohide. Where is that watermark supposed to appear?



I have another monitor running 1600x1200, showing part of the wallpaper.

The new watermark looks good but there is a slight problem on mine the wording is too low. The lettering is "sitting" on the taskbar so that the bottom part is cut off. ie the 'p' looks like a small 'D' and the 'y' looks like a 'v'.

I'm running Vista at 1280x1024.

I will not autohide my taskbar. I have several system tray and taskbar items that blink when there are new bits to view. If they're on autohide, I have to keep waving my mouse at them to check if there's new bits to view or not, which either wastes my time waving my mouse when nothing's there, or I forget and therefore miss when new stuff is viewable.

It may work for you, but it doesn't work for all.

I'm running KDE 4.3 with a 1680x1050 resolution, and while the new text looks good, it gets cut at the bottom, when using the default panel sizes.

Just a recommendation for people. You can hide your taskbar so it doesn't show until you mouse over the area. That's what I use, then you can have the whole screen as just the image without seeing the bar or worrying about the watermark.

Sits right above my task bar. It is a little larger than the others with just the faintest cut off of the p and y's tales in the word blasphemy but any higher and it'd get into my line of sight and be a little more arresting than it is.



Maybe I'm weird, but I always thought of the watermark like the flourished signature of an old master.



*I* want people to know what I have on my laptop.



Besides, Ryan's art pulls my eye away from that lower right hand corner, like it's suppose to, and I barely notice it. It's not like he's got it embedded in the image right smack-daub in the middle of all the saturated color and story telling. Now that, would be annoying.



Ryan, don't get any ideas. ;)

I don't personally dislike the watermark, I just find its size is a bit too ... eye catching.



Also, the fact that it's large AND half-way cutoff, makes it... well, all the more eyecatchingly annoying. haha :)



I do appreciate that it needs to be there, but on such a small screen, it's about as long as the entire utility portion of the taskbar with 8 apps going! :(



Oh well. Lived with it forever, it's not a biggie. I couldn't really care less if it stayed that way, since I always seem to forget about its existence anyway. :)

I'm glad I saw this because I was wondering why it was weird. I remove it at home but at work it was half into the toolbar and distorted (I keep the toolbar transparent). The resolution on that monitor is 1280x1024.



I hate the watermark but totally understand the need for it. I've never understood someone trying to pass off your work as their own. I saw one of your creations that was slightly re-colored a long time ago on deviant art that some guy was trying to claim was his. I totally called the guy on it. just wrong.

Keep the watermark dude. I pay for quality artwork and you deserve to have people see where it's from. If it's annoys some then that's their issue and they need to at least check where their head is and take a whiff. On top of that, When I worked as a photo developer, I came across 2 occasions where your artwork was printed..luckily I saw these, and I shredded them. I even got into an argument with the dude over one image because he tried to say he created it. All he did was crop the watermark out. The computer system still had it on there so I called him on his bluff then told him to piss off. Pretty funny that the image he printed was the same one I had as my background(the original Fluorescence)..Keep the watermark.

No offense, but I photoshop the watermark out of mine before I put it on my desktop. I've always felt it was very annoying to have a beautiful image broken up by what amounts to an advertising. I know it's totally necessary for you to put it on there, that's why I never really mentioned it before. But it's definitely annoying to pay for something and then still have a watermark splashed on it. Anybody else feel this way?

I'm currently running Windows 7 using the default settings on the taskbar. About 1/2 of the watermark is cutoff. My resolution is 1900x1200.

The watermark is a bit large for my liking.



Also, I'm running Windows7 with the taskbar set to use Small Icons (so it's about 4/5ths of the size of the normal taskbar.



The watermark is about half way... I can see only the upper half of all of the letters.



So... it's about half way too low and a bit too large. :)



I use 1366x768 (your new wallpaper format).

"Windows Classic" I guess it's called.

/spam spam spam! :P

If it matters, I am using the non-skinned look with the old square, boring boxes instead of the pretty, shiny, rounded XP or higher theme look.

i have vista ultimate 64-bit.



i run my display always at 2560x1600 and the new watermark is fine just where it is!

tho i think it is just a bit to big... just a tiny bit ..to big :) but all is fine in terms of screen positioning.

I am running 1680x1050, widescreen.

Hi Ryan,



I like the new version just fine.

I have the same problem as Kellzilla, the very bottom of the letters are cut off. I have Vista and running my monitor at 1280 x 1024.



I don't know how it is on Windows 7, but with Vista it seems it needs to be bumped up a little. The old watermark was at definitely at the perfect height above the taskbar.



It could be that because the font is bigger on the new one that is why it's getting cut off. But that's just my two cents.

The Beveled and Glossy watermark on the new afterglaow as well with all others jsust about sits right about my taskbar. abosolutely perfect. I can see the whole thing without it being covered up. Although I have my taskbar set on autohide So most of the time it wouldn't matter.



Screen Res: 1920 x 1200 widescreen

I'm not a huge fan of the bevel and emboss, but I'll get used to it.

My taskbar covers up the tails on the 'g', 'p' and 'y', though. Needs to bump up a few more pixels.