A good reason to Watermark All your images on the Internet

"Nebraska Weather Photos Passed Off As Hurricane Katrina

Local Photographer Says Others Take Credit For His Work"

http://www.theomahachannel.com/weath...16/detail.html


PWW
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PWW (Paul Wayne Wilson)
Over 1,000 Photographs Online at,
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A good reason to Watermark All your images on the InternetDon't post in
HTML, it's rude.

Watermarking is useless. Unless you make it so intrusive noone wants to look
at your work anyway (and certainly won't buy it) it's not going to deter
anyone. They'll just crop or clone it out in a few minutes work.

Jeroen Wenting" jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl wrote:
Watermarking is useless.

It is absolutely not useless. But good business sense. My images are my
business. And I value my images.

Jeroen Wenting" jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl wrote:
Unless you make it so intrusive noone wants to look
at your work anyway (and certainly won't buy it)

Hmmm, I get a lot of people looking at my images on my websites. Hmmm, I get
a lot of people to buy and license my images from my watermarked images. So
that just shot down that theory.

Jeroen Wenting" jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl wrote:
it's not going to deter
anyone. They'll just crop or clone it out in a few minutes work.

To say watermarking will not "deter anyone" is just plain wrong. Most web
surfing people (who like to steal images off the internet and use them as
their own) don't have the expertise or the pro applications to Photoshop the
Watermark out of a image, let alone do a decent job of it. So right there
you have stopped many potential thieves.

Sure there are always some Photoshop knowledgeable thieves that might try
and "Clone Stamp" the watermark out. But even the Photoshop aware thieves
will have a problem getting a quality image even if they do spend a fair
amount of time on it. Plus, that is another reason not to put large size
images up online. That also makes it easier for the thieves to Photoshop the
watermark out.

I do photography for a living! Do you?
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PWW (Paul Wayne Wilson)
Over 1,000 Photographs Online at,
http://PhotoStockFile.com

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Jeroen Wenting jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl wrote:

Watermarking is useless. Unless you make it so intrusive noone wants to look
at your work anyway (and certainly won't buy it) it's not going to deter
anyone. They'll just crop or clone it out in a few minutes work.

Funny, the cropping and cloning I've found done to some of my
photos didn't stop the watermark from being detected.