Watermarks Randomly Appear in Develop Mode

[TianaLee]

I was working on some images for a few models I worked with - I was in the middle of editing photos (hadnt closed Lightroom, hadn't selected anything differently with watermarks) and out of nowhere the watermarks I most recently exported the images with appeared on the photos in Develop mode. Some are also cropped funny or are enlarged in the viewing screen but normal in the smaller window in the upper left corner- I can't fix the way it's viewed no matter what "zoom" option I choose ("fit" ratio, etc. Now when I initially exported them was over a month ago and I had re-edited a few images within that time-frame as well as exported them with different watermarks and never had a problem.

Anyone experience this or have a solution? I am on a deadline and freaking out a bit.

[F. McLion]

Which exact version of LR?

Which OS?

Did you try to turn off the GPU acceleration? Adobe Lightroom GPU Troubleshooting and FAQ

[TianaLee]

CC 2015 [1014445] Version 6.3 [9600]

Microsoft Windows 10

I did try turning it off with the article you linked and I restarted and found no change.

[Just Shoot Me]

You are running a very old version of LR. Update it to the .10 update from here.

Manually download and install.

Download Photoshop Lightroom

[TianaLee]

Thank you! I updated, unfortunately the iamges still have the permanent watermark but now Lightroom works much faster

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

If you are seeing the watermark on photos in the Lr library (Grid or Loupe view) then you are looking at photos that you exported (with a watermark) AND imported into the catalog. (This could have happened with the option in the export dialog to "Add to this catalog" )

I suspect that you will now have two versions of your photos in the Catalog- One is the 'Original' and the other is the 'Export version'. So you will need some searching to find the 'original' versions.