

Then I ran the image through topaz Gigapixel.

Nothing new here, but watermarks do not protect anything. Content aware fill did most of the heavy lifting. It took me less than 90 seconds to remove it completely from the image- at least well enough that no normal viewer would notice. Unfortunately, watermarks are very easy to remove. I think we would all assume our image is safe and sound.

The image was also posted quite small, 648x591 pixels. There was a very nice image posted here several days ago, but it had a large watermark across the entire image. I am fairly fluent in photoshop, but certainly not a guru. Something I think we can all learn from or at least be reminded of.
