watermark got watermarked

After disabling, did all watermarks disappear? Or is the double watermark still on the watermark image?

This should not happen. Can you try disabling the watermark for the watermark image? https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/add-watermark/screenshots/

I had to clear cache plugin and cloudflare and all watermarks disappeared. except the watermark image that still has a watermark on it in the library.
I checked on the images in the directory they are clean

This is odd. Are you sure the watermark image is correct? Can you try uploading it again?

I clicked on add the watermark it went to the library and added it and when the page returned the watermark was watermarked.
I went to remove watermark on that image and the logo image and it was gone
How do I add the image to the do not watermark box , image_name.ext, nextimage.ext ?

This field is intended for use with regular expressions. Those images may never be watermarked. This is required because some plugins add their images to the upload directory (captchas, …).

To exclude two files you can use:

.*\/(image_name.ext|nextimage.ext)

You can also add more complex patterns to exclude all png files containing “nowatermark”

.*nowatermark.*\.png

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Need to revisit this I reinstalled plugin due to another one I switched to stopped working and want to work with this one since I think its better, but the exclude list is confusing me.
I have 2 images besides the ^wpcf7.* in the excludes box
this is what I have is it correct

^wpcf7.*|WM-e1461617855105.png|nycspotnewsphotoLogo11.png

What are the full paths you want to exclude?

This one should work:

^(wpcf7.*|.*WM-e1461617855105.png|.*nycspotnewsphotoLogo11.png)

Thank You so Much that worked Perfectly