{"id":895,"date":"2025-05-19T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/?p=895"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:14:21","slug":"watermark-not-removed-after-subscribing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/troubleshooting\/watermark-not-removed-after-subscribing\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermark not removed after subscribing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/troubleshooting\/watermark-not-removed-after-subscribing\/#Why_is_the_watermark_still_visible_after_I_subscribed\" >Why is the watermark still visible after I subscribed?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/troubleshooting\/watermark-not-removed-after-subscribing\/#Why_you_may_still_see_watermarks\" >Why you may still see watermarks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/troubleshooting\/watermark-not-removed-after-subscribing\/#How_to_speed_up_the_change\" >How to speed up the change<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.img.vision\/help\/troubleshooting\/watermark-not-removed-after-subscribing\/#What_about_marketplaces\" >What about marketplaces?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_the_watermark_still_visible_after_I_subscribed\"><\/span>Why is the watermark still visible after I subscribed?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On free accounts, all images are watermarked with the text <em>\u201cimage hosting by www.img.vision\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you subscribe, Img.vision automatically restores your original, unwatermarked images and updates our image delivery network. The image links themselves stay the same, we don\u2019t create new or dynamic links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_you_may_still_see_watermarks\"><\/span>Why you may still see watermarks<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you had previously opened an image in your browser <strong>before subscribing<\/strong>, your browser will have cached the watermarked version locally. After subscribing, the browser may continue to show this cached version instead of fetching the updated one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anyone who opens your image for the first time after you subscribed won\u2019t have this problem (since they never cached the watermarked version).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Over time (up to 24 hours), your browser and the browsers of people you share images with will automatically refresh and show the unwatermarked image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_speed_up_the_change\"><\/span>How to speed up the change<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t want to wait for caches to expire, you can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Rename the image in your Img.vision dashboard<\/strong> \u2192 this gives the image a new filename, ensuring browsers and marketplaces download it fresh.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Upload a renamed copy of the image<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also try refreshing your local browser cache with a hard reload (Windows: <code>CTRL+F5<\/code>, Mac: <code>CMD+SHIFT+R<\/code>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_about_marketplaces\"><\/span>What about marketplaces?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Marketplaces (like Walmart, Amazon, etc.) often cache product images you upload through bulk CSV or Excel files. If those images had watermarks at the time, the watermark will remain visible even after subscribing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To fix this, update your product listings with the renamed image files (upload a CSV sheet with renamed filenames). This forces the marketplace to fetch the new, unwatermarked versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the watermark still visible after I subscribed? On free accounts, all images are watermarked with the text \u201cimage hosting by www.img.vision\u201d. When you subscribe, Img.vision automatically restores your original, unwatermarked images and updates our image delivery network. The image links themselves stay the same, we don\u2019t create new or dynamic links. 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