Block Your Photos From Being Printed From Facebook

Browncoat

Senior Member
Thanks for the info, I blocked them all. However, I have a feeling that keeping up with this is going to be difficult as more and more begin to pop up. This is one of the things that irritates me about Facebook. All of these (and a lot of other things) should be blocked automatically unless I give them permission to access my stuff. Their security and privacy standards are pretty low.
 

Eduard

Super Mod
Staff member
Super Mod
Size them properly, and you shouldn't have an issue. I always make the size no larger than 600 px on the long side, with a 72 dpi resolution. They can print a 2" (on the long side) image with 300dpi, or possibly a 3" (long side) image with around 200 dpi resolution. Watermark it as well - there really isn't anyone who's going to go to that trouble unless they REALLY REALLY want your image.
 

Browncoat

Senior Member
Ya, and probably the best news is that Facebook's image compression really sucks. Photos lose a lot of quality when you post to your albums, so hopefully no one would want them anyway LOL.
 

Eduard

Super Mod
Staff member
Super Mod
Size them properly, and you shouldn't have an issue. I always make the size no larger than 600 px on the long side, with a 72 dpi resolution. They can print a 2" (on the long side) image with 300dpi, or possibly a 3" (long side) image with around 200 dpi resolution. Watermark it as well - there really isn't anyone who's going to go to that trouble unless they REALLY REALLY want your image.

GREAT advice! I wound up finding someone using an image of mine from last year's photowalk on a commercial website with TinEye. (I had just heard of it and randomly tried an image.) I settled with them and filed it away as a lesson learned.
 

ohkphoto

Snow White
Good Morning, all, and thank you for the information. It just confirms my "suspicions" about facebook. I do not post my photos on facebook becuase of their policy. If I want to share my photos, I post them on my blog (that has a content protector) and have recently been checking out flickr --they have a license option where you can indicate that the photos are copyrighted. You have no recourse with facebook if someone prints or copies your photos --you basically sign away your rights to anything you post there.

Helene
 

ohkphoto

Snow White
Oh, and I forgot to add, with Lightroom 3 (3.2), the publishing service for flickr works great (the facebook on, fortunately, still has bugs!)
 

Eduard

Super Mod
Staff member
Super Mod
What about putting watermarks right across your pics posted on FB?

Watermarks are always an option but I've rarely seen them used on FB. I think limiting size and resolution is the best defense if you decide to upload to FB.
 
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