Do you watermark?

I find it detracts from the image so rather put up images with 1000 pixels max on the wide side.
 
BigAl-sa said:
I find it detracts from the image so rather put up images with 1000 pixels max on the wide side.
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Which for online advertising, or even onscreen (thinking TV), should be plenty for anyone wanting to pilfer your work. :o

It's only print that need the big files and even then upscaling technology is apparently getting pretty good. . .
 
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gdiza said:
I don't really care who uses my images, so I wouldn't water mark.
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Then why have you copyrighted them all on flickr? You should rather make use of one of the creative commons licenses available.
Devill said:
Soon as my shots become worth stealing i will :o :p
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True but I wouldn't really like to see my stuff used to illustrate bad photography either :eek: :D
 
Wino said:
I like that, think I might do it as well.
How do you do that?
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It's added automagically when I export from Aperture but it would also be a simple photoshop action if you have that application at your disposal.

EDIT - the one I actually use isnt nearly so obtrusive - I just created that one for illustrative purposes.
 
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bwana said:
Then why have you copyrighted them all on flickr? You should rather make use of one of the creative commons licenses available.True but I wouldn't really like to see my stuff used to illustrate bad photography either :eek: :D
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Damn youz!

// Runs off to go watermark them :o
 
bwana, at work I take a lot of stuff off the web from various sites which we can't afford to buy (eg: vectors - they're expensive sometimes and I do a LOT of vector work every day. ive seen freaken fonts going for 200 dolla!)

I might take a vector, paint the (c) out and stuff, vectorise it, and clean it up a bit.

I can honestly say I will not even ATTEMPT to take that out - that (c) watermark is better than 90% of the sites out there. i'm not saying yours is impossible, but it's gonna take a while....

Good Job on the type of watermark mate. you got brains
 
:D hehe ... Nice watermark Bwana, I watermark most images and have been very tempted to implement a watermark just like yours for photos uploaded to Facebook.
 
Watermarking becomes a problem when it distracts your attention from the image and becomes the focal point of your attention instead.

The watermark in your pic Bwana, is a perfect example of watermarking taken to the extreme. I know you overdid the watermark in your pic as an illustration, but some images on the web actually use in-your-face watermarks similar to the one you posted.
When I opened the pic in your example, I was more focused on what was written in the watermark that in the image itself.
I know that people want to protect their artwork, but why bother uploading a pic on the net if you intend destroying your artwork anyway.

This one's a good example of watermarking taken to the extreme:
http://eater.com/uploads/2007_11_mayer.jpg
 
It depends on which sites I put my work. On Czech sites I almost always watermark my stuff. But as a rule of thumb I feel watermarking is gay and if you do watermark your work you actually think it is good enough to get stolen. Thats a bit vain.
 
Watermarking individual photos was getting a bit time consuming so I commissioned a mate to engrave (etch?) the watermark onto a UV filter.

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The filters are a little expensive but since I dont really use them for anything else I'm not too phased by it.

:P​
 
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