Originally posted by Nicolas06 To be honest Ian Stuart Forsyth, your watermark ruin the image for me. I see only that... I get you want to protect your photos, but if it too aggressive, it make the photo far less pleasant (for me) to look at.
I also think that basically, with a bit of processing, a thief could likely entirely remove it, because it is transparent: the original image is still there anyway.
A lesson from the deviant
Back some time ago I had went online to the Canada photo club a long time member and ask a few there what would be the best crop for entering a photography of a Great horned owl shot in 2005 to Nature photography magazine ( I was contributor for several years) . Along with several crops I also provide a large copy for people to crop as what they felt as better composition and valued their wisdom.
One of the members pointed me to the direction of someone selling that very image on Deviant Art site a few weeks later. The seller of the image profusely argued that the photograph was taken by him and that it was his work even after I submitted work uploaded ( to stock photos years before )with variations taken of the owl on the same stump in the same light, years before his posting at DA. After a heated exchange I contacted DA to takedown the images.
At this time I several thing going in the fire, one of the important was people interested in some beach photograph that were going to be used in a hamlet brochure. I directed them to I stock for as they had the rights to the images for sales. Another was the submission to the NPM ( the owl photo)that usually takes 6 months to get anything published. I get a notification that my I stock account was frozen because of depute with ownership of several of my photos. Now this imposed a rather large problem as the beach photographs are sold via this account and tied up this until things got straightened out and which never did until after the deadline of the needed beach photo. I have no proof that it was the Divaint Art member that logged the complaint but I find it odd that the images in question were that of the owl.
There are a few people out there that even when caught a lie will argue to the death to hold onto their made up online persona, it’s not hard to find them.
False Aligations: Open Talk Forum: Digital Photography Review
“Before you go and accuse with false alligations, check your facts. I have every negative, slide and raw image file of everything I own and shot.” Studio Hera Bell
It’s not the theft of the images that bothers me but rather how they will be used ( others taking credit)
Now this imposes a problem I can upload images to the web in small resolutions to help combat it, but this really defeats the purpose of photographing for me. Or I can upload large images with watermarks save me some future aggravation and share my work.