On free accounts your images are watermarked with “image hosting by www.img.vision”.
When you subscribe, Img.vision goes through all your images and replaces it with the original image without a watermark. It also forces our image delivery network to purge its cache for your images and cache the new image without the watermark.
The image link stays the same, we don’t have dynamic image links.
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Watermark stays present in your browser
If you’ve opened an image with a watermark in your browser before subscribing, your browser will cache that image with the watermark on your device.
When you subscribe, you might still see the watermark on your image, because your browser is not downloading the latest version from our image servers, but showing the cached version it previously saved locally.
We don’t use dynamic links so the image link stays the same. This can confuse browsers, since they don’t realize that the image has changed.
Anyone you share the images with that never saw the image with a watermark won’t have this issue since their browser has no cache of the image yet.
Solution? You can refresh your browser cache by opening the image in your browser, and opening the Img dashboard and forcing your browser to refresh its cache. You can do this with a keyboard shortcut: on Windows with CTRL+F5 or on Mac with CMD+SHIFT+R.
Watermark stays present on a marketplace
If you did a bulk product csv upload to a marketplace when the image still had a watermark, the marketplace may also cache cache the watermarked image. Subscribing won’t remove the watermark from the marketplace. You need to reupload your product images ie. with a product csv sheet.
With some marketplaces, reuploading the product csv might not help, as the marketplace might recognize the image link and stick to its cached image with watermark.
You can easily overcome this by adding an exta part to your image links in your product csv sheet:
If you have https://d.img.vision/drivename/photo.jpg, add ?cache-busting=yes to it so the link becomes: https://d.img.vision/drivename/photo.jpg?cache-busting=yes . The marketplace will then download the image again and not rely on its cache.
