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dullard

dullard

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My first attempt at a thread went nowhere. Ignore the first 17 posts in this thread.

*** Spoilers are in here, so if you want to play the game, do not read further. ***

But this thread isn't about this game. I just want to know how these images are made.











How do you make this? (Save the image and then open it with some imaging software.) It is white text on white background that appears when you change contrast, turn to a black and white image, etc. Can that white on white trick be done with black text on the image at the same time?

How do you make this? Only some letters hide when highlighted.

How do you make this? Increase gamma and text appears out of a black blob.

How do you make this? Highlight it for text to appear.

Finally, how do you make this? Posterize it for text to appear.
 
mail a copy of the thing to yourself. or buy out an ad in a small town newspaper featuring just the drawing and the company's name.
 
Originally posted by: dullard
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Your name wouldn't happen to be Simon would it? 😛
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No. I don't get the reference either. Could you fill me in?
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doh! sorry dullard - Simon was an SNL character played by Mike Myers. If you ever see the clips, you will understand the "drawrings" reference.

😉

 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
Hire a lawyer. Copyright protection laws are on your side my friend.
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They are already either (a) named on a federal lawsuit, or (b) are in negotiations with us to stay off of the lawsuit. I'm just thinking of the future, how to make it easier to prove the origin rather than digging through years of paperwork to find the original date that we had it and then trying to find a notorized copy of it.

All the pictures are already copyrighted and the material they cover are patented (actually the picture that was most widely copied was a figure from one of our patents). But that doesn't stop anyone from copying them. Imagine the horror on a university regent as he/she opens the website and highlights a picture to see that the picture is plagarized. That is a lot better than us paying laywers thousands of dollars in an attempt to sue for damages which are hard to put in dollar form.
 
This bugs me a lot. Why do people think they can just use any image they want? They just steal everything. There are plenty of ways to get images free/cheap.
 
hmm...that first pic in the game is probably a pretty good idea...there are watermarking programs out there I believe that do that kind of stuff but better, where the letters look like they are imbosed into the picture. Maybe you could also hide a very small logo or some kind of mark hidden in the picture?
 
Originally posted by: dullard
At work, we have some drawings which other companies (including a well-known university) have copied and claimed was their own work. One drawing in particular has appeared on websites, seminars, grant applications, etc. all without permission. I am currently creating another document which I assume will also be plagiarized. This document will be accessable to a few people outside of our company in both printed and computer form. I keep thinking that there has to be some simple things that can be done to help prove that the images are our own.

I'm thinking of tricks like in this fun game. Sorry if I just wasted several of your hours going through that game, answers are posted in another thread here.

So far, I know I want to put very near white text all over the white background that says property of XYZ. Thus anyone with an electronic copy and puts it on a website will be easy to spot.

I would like to do that ultra small printing like on a check signature line for the hardcopies(which is text that looks like a line). However, I can't think of any consumer technology that can print that.

I also thought of light grey specks that appear like background color on a hardcopy but when photocopied clearly say Property of XYZ. Do you know how to do that?

Any other ideas?
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Put a digital watermark in?

 
Why can't you just include "property of ... reproduction prohibited" text in the image area?

You could talk to your printer and see if you can't come up with a paper that can be watermarked/microprinted (by a company that does that) and will still offer a suitable substrate for your purposes, but that's almost as ineffective as a digital watermark - which is to say, totally useless except for after-the-fact legal action.

For online image distribution, you may want to consider embedding a low-res image in flash, and allowing a partial area to be zoomed in on. It would keep all but the most dedicated person from reproducing it. Of course, if it's only a small graphic to begin with, that won't matter.

As for print copies, your options include low contrast printing (dark red on black), metallic foil woven into the paper, or light-reactive dye.

IOW, unless you like blowing money on gadgets that don't really do the job they claim to, you are pretty much SOL.


and I couldn't get past 3. I never could do those stupid 3-D things.
 
Originally posted by: myusername
Why can't you just include "property of ... reproduction prohibited" text in the image area?

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and I couldn't get past 3. I never could do those stupid 3-D things.
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It is pretty easy to open up paint and remove the "property of..." text. The people who have done this in the past have done very minor modifications like that. I'm looking for things that people without much tecnical skills just wouldn't notice to begin with (we aren't dealing with masterminds here).

As for the printer, it will be us - with a laser or an inkjet and standard paper. No way that we have the cash for things like outsourcing the printing or including foil woven into the paper. Dark red on black sounds interesting and might be printable with an inkjet.

Flash and Microsoft Word don't sound compatable. Are they?

As for #3, it is: o.htm
Originally posted by: simms
How do you do this game???
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Play the game by deleting everything past the last slash in the address bar. Then type in the picture puzzle answer that you discover.
Originally posted by: RyanSengara
Put a digital watermark in?
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Any easy way to do that?
 
Originally posted by: myusername
post a sample of the type of image you are working with. You say word, btw - why are you using word instead of acrobat?
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I just opened google and did a search for sketch. Here was the first thing I saw: sketch. We aren't acutally working on ears or anything related to ears. But that sketch is typical to how ours look.

(1) $$$
(2) Ease of use, distribution, etc.
(3) Acrobat has so many flaws, although it is getting better, it is far from acceptable. For example, when these documents started, you couldn't use color and we had to use color.
(4) Acrobat is not group work friendly.
(5) I'd hate to have to buy adobe products so I can take my work home. I guess that is lumped into reason #1.
(6) Government/journal requirements.
(7) The list goes on and on why not to use acrobat.
 
Hmm. Well if your images are large enough (lines are at least 6 pixels in width) you could have your artist substitute very small text for some of the main lines in the drawing. If the image you linked to is typical, that won't work though.

I'm not sure how Word handles missing fonts (or whether they are embedded in the doc) but you might try using a nonstandard font to type "you stole this you fucking thief" that displays only "________________________________" until it is highlighted and the font is changed to a standard one. Then you could use the line to underline the image title. Of course, you would have to verify the functionality of this in Word, create a custom font (or search for one that is public domain 😉 ), and come up with a caption that would be slightly less likely to upset a legitimate customer who stumbled upon it ...

And regardless of whether they are trying to defeat it or not, as soon as someone extracts the image from the .doc, that functionality disappears.
 
My first attempt at a thread went nowhere. Ignore the first 17 posts in this thread.

*** Spoilers are in here, so if you want to play the game, do not read further. ***

But this thread isn't about this game. I just want to know how these images are made.











How do you make this? (Save the image and then open it with some imaging software.) It is white text on white background that appears when you change contrast, turn to a black and white image, etc. Can that white on white trick be done with black text on the image at the same time?

How do you make this? Only some letters hide when highlighted.

How do you make this? Increase gamma and text appears out of a black blob.

How do you make this? Highlight it for text to appear.

Finally, how do you make this? Posterize it for text to appear.
 
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