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Date: September 17, 2026 11:47AM

A couple of image uploads have annoyed me lately. This was one of them, and there was a plus613 logo one a little while ago.

The watermark messed up the image.. like I think it has here.

Long story short, according to logs this was originally a transparent background .PNG file; the adding the watermark removes the transparency, and the way the watermark works is it picks the pixel colour in the middle of where the watermark will go, closest to it, and creates the watermark 'bar' of that colour; which works well on eg solid colours, or eg.. images with water in it or whatever, but can get things a bit wrong otherwise, but still better than slapping it in the middle of the image like it used to.

Anyway; because there's no colour nearby on a transparent image, it choses either white or black, like this one.

Long story short; this annoyed me so now I BELIEVE that I've fixed it so if an image with transparency (png, gif, webp) is uploaded, it will no longer destroy the transparency in the image itself, and will create a transparent watermark.

Tiny things annoy me sometimes. There's probably been a dozen of these uploaded, ever... but now at least the next one won't be broken