I was wondering if anyone knew how I could achieve an animated watermark to go over the top of an image? see this link as an example: http://tattoojohnny.com/tattoo-design-gallery.asp?sku=LLF-00330 I want to achieve the same kind of thing on my site.. This is the link to one of the images for an example: http://tattoonest.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=74&products_id=213 I will really appreciate any help on this matter.
You have to do this in flash using a looped animation basically..I'd google flash watermark tutorials. If you have no flash experience this might be difficult for you. Good luck!
I'm one who is usually opposed to watermarks because I think they greatly cheapen the entire site, but in your case I don't even see the point. Before I explain the flash thing can we just sit down and have a chat about the idea of having watermarks, because I think you might not have thought about it well enough. Correct my if I'm wrong, but these tattoo designs will eventually be re-drawn by eye, at the hand of a skilled artist onto the skin of a person. A skilled artist. If I were to take your small watermarked image into my local ink shop do you think the skilled artists there could succeed in drawing the tattoo under your watermark on me? or do you think that having a watermark that is subtle enough that you can see the design, will stop artists from re-creating it? I think it's sad to have watermarks on your images, and as an uninterested 3rd party who has no particular attraction to tattoos I would be off your site as fast as I found it simply because of the watermarks. If you don't want people to take it, then don't put it online right? Now, all they have done on your competitors site is create a flash file with a looped animation on a top layer....then they load the image underneath it. Basically, you could take any script or flash image gallery and add the top layer. Check out SwiFR and failing that, look at Flashden.com and you should be able to find a Flash designer who can do this fairly cheap. Dont' attempt this yourself unless you already know Flash. I know Flash and I still would hire somebody because it's not my forté and not worth my time when it's such a simple task for a Flash guy. Hope this helps, and I seriously hope you reconsider having watermarks at all!
Thankyou for the reply, that is alot of help. At least i now know what the method is called. There is a stack of info on google so I will try and learn from the tutorials but if that fails then I guess I will have to hire a pro.