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mana-sputachu · 2 months

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Artshield

I was going to flop in bed and try to draw from there, but the sudden swarm of AI shit on another of my accounts fueled me with spite, so I'm writing this post NOW rather than tomorrow when I'll be more awake.

If you can't run Glaze/Nightshade because of the insane specs required for it, give a try to Artshield.

It's a web-based app that will let you load all the pics you want and protect them with a big, invisible watermark all over it. It also has a checker option to use after you've shielded your art, to be sure it worked.

Now, I'm terrible with math so I can't explain how it exactly work, but here's the explanation on their blog. If someone who's more math-savvy than me wants to add a simpler explanation to this post, please do!

While it can't poison AIs like Nightshade does, it's still a good solution if you can't run Glaze/Nightshade on your pc... like many of us, really. As I wrote on another post about Glaze, I have a pretty decent gaming pc that, while not being like high-end or anything (my GPU is a RTX 3060), suits my needs perfectly and runs all the games I'm interested in (Tekken 8's demo being the most recent thing).

Yet, in order to try Nightshade, I had to close all the apps I had running in the background, which were, in that moment, Opera and Discord. Only when I shut them down, it finally started. 10 minutes for the mid setting and the result was awful.

I tried WebGlaze (not Cara yet), and the results were also awful, given you can't control the strenght of the glazing much.

I understand it might be hard to develop this kind of technology, but I wish they would meet us halfway since the majority of people use old machines, laptops (a friend of mine tried running Glaze on hers and the fans started spinning like it was ready to fly) or even just tablets and phones, so those specs are hard to meet.

That's why I want to share Artshield, as a solution for those of you who can't run Glaze and Nightshade.

Artshield's only big limitation is that it won't work with white backgrounds, so try to add a color layer to your white background before shielding it. Same for B/W images.

Other tips I can suggest for trying to protect your works:

Post at the lowest resolution you can: I go for 72 DPI, keeping bigger sizes and high quality files only for Ko-Fi rewards and clients' files

Add a noise filter: I always do this because I like the paper-like, grainy feel it gives to my art, but I read once it might messes with AI's scrapers. While I don't know if this is still true, it's worth trying it

Don't forget a big visible watermark (aside from the Artshield one)!

Hope this will help other strugglin artists, I never see Artshield suggested around, especially in posts about Glaze and Nightshade, so I decided to write this one.

Go and shield your art!

#artshield #nightshade #glaze #protecting artworks #artists on tumblr #text post #text posts #useful #I hope

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aubryjoi · 2 months

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Let trans kids become trans adults 🩵🏳️‍⚧️🩷

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archerdepartures116 · 5 months

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apocolypse au cause i weirdly have an obsession with these

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sylverscourge · 8 months

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I was looking on the nimona fandom wiki and saw this concept art and I'm crying omg its so cute. Look at the cuteness, its overwhelming. I love these little characters so much sob

#nimona #nimona concept art #ballister boldheart #nimona 2023 #nimona movie #nimona official artwork #just admire bal's pure raw dad energy I beg of you #nim is just a baby protect them at all costs

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ihavesomejays · 14 days

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roll with it

the aventurine trailer???? so ill so ill so ill im on my knees he had one hand behind his back the whole time i'm shaking and sobbing and yes i am aware of that one random stroke on the bottom right but i drew this all on three layers so i can't fix it sorry folks

closeups below keep reading

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glitchedcosmos · 2 months

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Reminder that she protects and loves the trans community 🏳️‍⚧️ 🕷

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sennamaticart · 2 months

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Drawing Tiwa again! Figuring out her Doberman patterns.

#art tag #digital art #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #drawing #artwork #oc #original character #my art #doberman #anthro #anthropomorphic #furry #canine #the nightshade stuff makes my stuff look a bit crusty but im doing what i can to protect my work #tiwa

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rymoire · 2 months

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[FANART - BALDUR'S GATE 3] Gale ~ playing card concept

The series of illustrations inspired by Baldur's Gate 3 continues with my favorite dork of a wizard : Gale Dekarios !

Hope you like it !

-> "See more" for the details <-

Side of Wizardry : The symbol you can see is Mystra's star with its 8 ends representing the different forms of magic. I also added Tara, Gale's tressym, friend, confident and voice of reason so to speak. She is often forgotten in fanarts so I wanted to include her in this version !

Side of Godhood : The symbol is also Mystra's star, this time broken and covered by the Crown of Karsus, the artifact which leads Gale to ascension. Here is him as the God of Ambition !

Mystra, the Goddess of Magic : Anyone who played with Gale in their party knows of the Lady of Mysteries and her importance in his personal quest. Therefore I added her in two versions : one clearly link to his choice to remain mortal and continue his life as a wizard, and another showing Gale rejection of her as he embrace immortality.

AND THE ORB (in the middle) ! The cause of most of his personal turmoil.

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noxribles · 9 months

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a little cruise adventure hc <3 (left to right)

from this little panel

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stranded-ziggy · 2 months

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Tumblr can still be scraped even if you opt out of this particular scraping, your stuff's not safe.

Glaze and nightshade are the best way to go, even for memes.

Don't let these dickwads use our creativity for their benefit.

And yeah, if you support AI you're a dickwad, fuck you, unfollow me.

#the idea of the internet being full of free stuff was fun but #ultimately we need to recognize and appreciate our right to own and protect our own creations #especially when they're being thrown into the exploitation machine #poison your images with nightshade #fight back #AI #ai generated #ai artwork #nightshade #glaze #anti ai #fuck ai art #fuck ai everything

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cookieruma29 · 4 months

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About your backstabber page, deserved. Even if Gregory didn't do it, still kind deserved.

Heheh. Yes, he singed total eclipse of the heart and killed his grandma and making Cassie join the mimic.

#but not really since this is Gregory from a au that is protected by the golden duo by being ggy #and have been trying to find her and the disappearance of the children in the newspaper trying to find answers #fnaf #fnaf gregory #my artwork #animatic #wanda ask #wanda answers #vengeful evan au #shouldn’t have killed Mrs afton smh

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suspicious-bread56 · 1 year

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Metrocop and his lovely pet

#art #combine #half life #hl #my artwork #metrocop #civil protection #bullsquid #Hl2 #Half-Life #Half-Life 2 #Half life 2 #sketch #sketches

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qiqinal · 4 months

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Hi Tumblr angst

I hate it too, this is what I think what happened after Hellish Roar, I know he's strong but not as strong as Sir.

#garten of banban #i sobbed when banban just sacrificed himself to protect us #banban #gobb #digital art #fanart #hellish banban #sir dadadoo #angst #my art #artists on tumblr #art #artwork

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that-sweet-jester · 1 year

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Damn those minecraft men making me obsses over them and their silly little roleplay still.

#protect at all costs #qsmp #qsmp fanart #wilbur soot #philza #wilbur soot fanart #philza fanart #fan art #mcyt #my art #qsmp tallulah #qsmp chayanne #sbi #sbi fanart #kinda?#mcyt fanart #artwork

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mossyvida · 5 months

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my ‘trans lives deserve to flourish and thrive’ prints

#queer artist #small artist #block printing #handmade #lgbtqia #trans artist #protect trans lives #linocut #linocut print #queer artwork

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mad-girlslove-song · 1 month

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the shittiest human art will always be leagues better than the best ai "art". a child's finger paintings and macaroni crafts will always be better than a computer's subpar attempt at recreating the starry night. your stick figures and smiley faces will always surpass an algorithm's bastardized boticelli painting. the most mediocre hallmark movie will always be better than whatever bullshit sora churns out. the most cringeworthy "i'm 14 and this is deep" notes app poetry will always be better than whatever chatgpt can come up with. always

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