Watermarks continue to haunt me

gecko0

I created a copy of an image for the current mini-challenge, placed it in my "forum pics" gallery (no watermark applied to the gallery) and then embedded the pic in the contest:

contest post with watermark appearing:
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=1456313&postcount=58

original gallery (watermarked):
http://www.dynamicapertures.com/Travel/Chicago-IL/8423316_8qGma#996256875_2Mvb9

copied image from non-watermarked gallery:




Are others seeing the watermark on that too? I checked the link on the copy and in the original (watermarked) Chicago gallery on my site...it all looks ok. When I go to the link from outside my galleries, it is watermarked like in the post above.

Am I taking crazy pills? :huh

Sheaf

It's possible that the CDN still maintains the old, watermarked copy in your location. I don't see a watermark on it myself.

WinsomeWorks

I don't see any watermark on the one you posted, or on the contest post you linked. I only see the watermark on the original in the gallery. I don't know what you did to watermark/unwatermark it. But I learned something through a call from the Help desk a yr. or so ago. If you want to change a watermark, or absolutely completely get rid of a watermark on certain photos or in a gallery, you have to do it through the "Tools> watermarking" thing rather than just in the gallery settings. And you may have to do it more than once to be sure it's off all copies/ all sizes. There's some weird stuff that happens with watermarks. And this may not be your problem, but in case other people look at this, they should read the next paragraph. If you had just un-watermarked the photo for the contest or whatever, it may not have been un-watermarked on every size you needed.

I was finding old watermarks and some of the SMug default watermarks on some sizes of my photos here & there. I mean, for instance, the Help hero told me that if I'd changed my watermark (which I did), I'd be best off if I went into each gallery and un-watermark all photos (or all that I wanted un-watermarked or updated with the new one). THen hours later, I was supposed to go into each gallery again & delete again. Then I could finally put the new watermark on them a few hours after that.

gecko0

Thanks for the replies. It now appears to be cleared up, so probably a replication/timing issue across the various servers or something.

WW- I did use the specific watermarking process you mentioned (I learned the hard way several months ago as well on that...) and it's typically a bit messy doing so (as you said).