Watermarking

I have another quick question. Should I consider watermarking? And if so where do I look? Thanks

You can add them with Photoshop, but I think the choice of if is a personal one. Good luck, soory I am no more help and I would love to see some of the images. Post them in the critique forum.....
Greg

Hi, there

This is one of the easy program that I use as Watermarking my D-photos.

http://www.easyimagetools.com/products/watermark/

Good luck,

C.L
MSP-MN

Food for thought- you could be facing what I am right now... I didn't watermark my images. Now I have found some people have active links to my images without any permission or credit given. I will break their links but now I face having to go back and watermark hundreds of images I have out on my website. This doesn't account for anyone that has already saved images of mine to their own computers without permission. I am just glad that they are not the full size images.

This may be a stupid question but what exactly is it that watermarking does to the image. the photoshop version that i have has some basic watermarking in it. What are the pros and cons?

I use a program by AISWatermark (google them). You can do about 50 in less than 15 seconds. Lots of features such as auto resize, watermark positioning, type faces etc.

are their any free programs you can download and use on a batch of photos?

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Originally Posted by Gidian9

This may be a stupid question but what exactly is it that watermarking does to the image. the photoshop version that i have has some basic watermarking in it. What are the pros and cons?

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pro: makes it if someone downloads your image, it gives clear ownership and is easy to prevent from copying at wal-mart. They won't copy watermarked images because they know it's illegal.

con: detracts from the image and if just done by an action can sometimes cover up important parts of a photo.

I watermark my images using a Photoshop action that adds a semi-transparent text layer to the image. I keep a clean high-res version & then run the action so it produces a watermarked low res version of about 500 pixels across that I can use on the web.

Marcand -

I looked at some of your gallery - I love how it's organized, by the way - and liked how you watermarked the center of the photo for web viewing. Makes them almost useless for unscrupulous potential 'users'. Good idea.

And now I want to go to Fiji.

I use IrFanview to create a simple watermark and then photoshark to do a batch overlay on all my pics I post online.

The only downside is that on certain public photo sites I take a lot of flack for having a copyright tag running through the middle of my pictures.

At the end of the day, someone can copy an online pic if they want to and can even remove a watermark if they know what they are doing. But I look at it like putting a lock on your bike. Sure someone can cut it; but its mere presence deters a lot of would-be thieves.

I am surprised how many people post their photos online w/ no copyright tag across them. To me, that is just inviting others to steal your work. In fact, I know that some low-budget magazines will often have people scour photo sharing sites and download untagged photos without permission.

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Originally Posted by txuj

Hi, there

This is one of the easy program that I use as Watermarking my D-photos.

http://www.easyimagetools.com/products/watermark/

Good luck,

C.L
MSP-MN

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Hi found this in the search thread and downloaded it seems ok need a bit of time to suss it out but looks hopefull

One of the reasons I made the switch to Gallery2 album software for my web phtos is that it allows for watermarking in a slightly different way, it overlays the watermark as a second image so if anyone tries to grab it, they get the watermark file rather than the image file. Because I only post small sizes, it's not much of an issue, and I usually just use a fully transparent .gif as the watermark (with tag data included) but for some shots that have high recognition value I have a semi transparent text/graphic overlay as well (Gallery also lets you decide which image sizes get which/any watermarking, and where on the photo to place it).