Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35126423-20180509205948/@comment-29727671-20191016153622

It's still there.. kinda. :D Some cards look good (almost perfect even), but others still have a slightly visible watermark.

Takara Tomy released Servant ZERO with the "SAMPLE" watermark put on a solid white background, a big mistake. I took it and use it as an overlay blended with "Division" mode on top of the other images, which actually "reverses" and erases the watermark. It looks worse on lighter cards, and some other cards have watermarks with slightly different opacity (interestingly, the newest Dissemble LRIGs are like that, but also some old cards). It isn't perfect, but it certainly looks better than normal. You can try it too in Photoshop or something and see for yourself.

The issue is that all images are .jpg which is a lossy format and artifacts get in the way, especially after resizing card images that were released in a bigger than standard resolution. TT did that for a set or two, but reverted back to the standard 250x349 resolution I use. They themselves seems to have exported various cards using different compression algorithms and the watermark itself might have been different between sets as well. It's more noticeable on keys too, even though I rotated the image, a lossless rotation can't be achieved in the standard width to height ratio the cards use, and another save after rotation also devalues the quality slightly. Maybe I should try rotating the watermark with code instead, but that isn't the main cause of mismatch.