What is appropriate watermarking?

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DKMPhoto

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480sparky said:
There IS one way to prevent people on the internet from stealing your photos. Guaranteed. 100%.









Don't post any.

As for suing someone for using your image without your consent or payment, that's easy to prove. It's called your Copyright Registration.
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Checkmate! lol
 
wev

wev

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Don Kuykendall said:
There are ones here that you can do that too. They are marked under the name as "Image Editing" YES

The ones that are "Image Editing" NO you should not be able to download by right click.
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Which doesn't really have any force, since a right click isn't even necessary -- you can simply drag them to the desktop. I just did several here, all NO's. I understand the effort, but it is not a good idea to lead people to think there is some sort of safe guard where none exists.
 
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DraganDL

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480sparky said:
There IS one way to prevent people on the internet from stealing your photos. Guaranteed. 100%.
Don't post any.

As for suing someone for using your image without your consent or payment, that's easy to prove. It's called your Copyright Registration.
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"Don't post any". Yeah, that is my point - if you post it, you post IT (you don't post something ELSE than that). And if you DO NOT post it, you don't have anything to protect from stealing...:cool:
 
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Sharin

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Your original question asked: "When should I use watermarking?" I think the answer depends on where you are posting the image and who your client base is.
For instance: I've read other photographers say they've posted resized and discretely watermarked images on their websites and/or FB and still had them lifted. It seems that some people don't care if the images they print are of poor quality.

I would suggest that your best option might be to create a few Actions that will resize and watermark your images for various sharing sites. That way you can resize for Nikonites without a watermark (if you choose), but use another size *with* watermark on Flickr, or FB, etc.

HTH a little,
 
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DKMPhoto

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Sharin said:
Your original question asked: "When should I use watermarking?" I think the answer depends on where you are posting the image and who your client base is.
For instance: I've read other photographers say they've posted resized and discretely watermarked images on their websites and/or FB and still had them lifted. It seems that some people don't care if the images they print are of poor quality.

I would suggest that your best option might be to create a few Actions that will resize and watermark your images for various sharing sites. That way you can resize for Nikonites without a watermark (if you choose), but use another size *with* watermark on Flickr, or FB, etc.

HTH a little,
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I went to the app store and downloaded a little program that'll watermark in batches. I do like how clean the watermark is now. Here is an example.

Audi1.jpg

It's really discrete.. and makes the over all look cleaner.
 
Marcel

Marcel

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I use photoshop to watermark my web pictures. The way i see it, it's just like an artist would sign his work. I try to make it almost disappear or be in live with the character of the image. You can see my daily 365 posts to see what I do.
 
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DraganDL

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Take this photo (portrait) of a girl for example: probably the most inappropriate area to place a watermark would be the part of the subject's body, just like here (hand, in this case). As if it was an additional tattoo... Or a surgically modded scar:rolleyes:.
 
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