Why does my new watermark look so terrible?

duds

Ok, so I just uploaded some images to use as watermarks. Everything went fine, and they looked AOK on the preview screen:



But when I actually applied them to a sample gallery, they looked pretty pixelated and terrible:



Any thoughts? What did I do wrong?
Thanks in advance for the help....

Andy

Can we get a link to your watermark please?

gtluke

Mine look terrible too. Mine was uploaded as a nice clean .png and when it's a watermark it's really bad looking.

duds

Thanks for replying, Andy.

Sure. The link to the watermark is here:

http://mattdudleyphotography.smugmug.com/photos/612947668_vnhHC-L.png

gtluke

hmm wait, I think mine is actually a crappy .gif, whoops

duds

Yeah, my first thought was that my image was not high enough quality... but looking at it again, I think it is. Right?

I don't see why it would look strange on my site, but not on the "watermark setup" screen.

Still hoping for an answer, or suggestion...

Thanks...

duds

bump

No matter what I do, I can't seem to fix this. I've tried a million different watermarks of different sizes with different resolutions... and they all look fine when I'm "creating a watermark" but they look pretty poor when I actually apply them to an image.

Anyone have any thoughts? Hoping for some brilliance..

Thanks...

PS - This is the latest watermark that I'm using: http://mattdudleyphotography.smugmug.com/photos/632165576_zMkU7-X3.png