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Watermarking images
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I´m just looking for a bit of advice regarding watermarks for web publishing. I don´t like them, particularly, and don´t really know how truly useful they are. I have felt that a 72dpi image at 5X7, say, is good for the web and just about nothing else. But I also don´t relish having images used freely by just anyone, especially those who won´t even request permission, because I think it undermines our profession.
Digimarc, for example, sells you a yearly subscription from 79.95 to 499.99, and then there are the freeware watermarks. I also know that watermarks can be removed.
For me the problem is how to share our images without being completely open to all forms of piracy. Perhaps it´s a one or the other proposition.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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David Lauer
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Fri Aug 07 16:14:12 UTC 2009
Chihuahua,
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Is a personal choice. I found some images that was used in web sites that i try to contact without reply. So my politic is put a watermark in all i have on the web. There are several browsers that have this function like iview or photomechanic i think aperture and Lightroom too. If no you can make an action for vertical and horizontal shots to reduce the size of the photo and paste a layer with a opacity of 20 percent or less.
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If you post on SmugMug they have an option to add and remove watermarks as you wish. They also have an option to keep your files from being downloaded without permission. But I can’t confirm that this works as I have just started using smugmug and haven’t had much of an opportunity to have anything stolen yet.
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Hey imants, they still can steal us. But at less putting some watermark make some publicity :)
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Hernan, did you have pictures stolen from Digital Railroad or from files you sent directly?
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I suppose the photos i found with tineye was taken from some low res of my old archive in Digital Railroad, yes. In some cases there was taken from the website of the newspaper where i work, but in this cases they put the credit at less.
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………or one could take the whole caper as a compliment
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compliment? could be….could be an international crime ring too. who knows? folks being identified, catalogued, kidnapped, lobotomies, packaged and sold as livestock by drug cartels dealing in human trafficing, smuggled into the USA by the GOP. debriefed by Mike Steele and sent to the closest town hall or tea party demanding they want their country back.
…though most likely a compliment
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Why would they want their country back after it is dragged through all that,…….they should demand a new one…….. well atleast a reconditioned one
ps watermarks are the scourge of the darkroom but loved by the digital folk
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They are really living in a counterfeit country. The real country, which was watermarked, has been downloaded to a series of unspecified servers and is being cloned and re-sold to lobotomated, reconfigured cyborgs at tea parties. But don´t worry, our lawyers are on it.
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