Chrissay 0 #1 December 24, 2004 Howdy all, I am working on a website and am about to start putting photos up on it, but I would like to watermark them in a way so that people cannot take them without permission. I haven't researched it too much so far, I did find this service http://www.digimarc.com/watermark/ but am wondering if there are any other services out there? It does look like this company offers a 'free downloand' plug-in for Photoshop, but I haven't had a chance to research it yet to be sure it is actually 'free' So I am just wondering what you are all doing out there for watermarking (if you can't tell, I am pretty new at all of this!) thanks Chrissy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
videointhesky 0 #2 December 24, 2004 Below is a link on how to make a Water Mark for PhotoShop ,Corel Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/copyrightprotection/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #3 December 28, 2004 Unfortunately, people will always be able to take the images - if they can see it on the web page, they have it. You can do stunts to make this more difficult for many users, but ultimately you lose. Watermarking just establishes that it is your image, but if Skyride can steal entire web sites of content and images, you may have the similar problem of enforcing property rights. Overlaying "PROOF" or "by Chrissy" onto a small byte size jpeg is pretty effective if your intent is to sell images. It's especially hard to remove diagonal text overlays unless it's on top of blue sky. But it detracts. Stealing my 750x500 40k jpegs won't get people very far. For me it's always been about keeping file sizes reasonable, but I think maybe it's time to let more bytes fly as broadband becomes typical. No one with a modem is perusing my images anyway. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chrissay 0 #4 December 28, 2004 Thanks for the info and you bring up some great points. I was hoping to be able to inbed something within the image. For example, I have come across cool photos before that I want to make the wallpaper on my computer. When I tried to save the photo, it broke it into like 9 different squares that prevented me from saving the photo. I guess I was thinking along the lines of that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #5 December 28, 2004 Yeah, I've seen those splicers - that effectively stops the easy use of copying out of the browser cache, and if they want to save the combined images as a jpeg, they suffer a bad round of degredation. But I believe an image capture program would do just fine, so not sure it's worth your effort. Guess that depends on how much work you'd have to do to implement it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #6 December 28, 2004 Those splicers produce html code which can be difficult to work into your own code if you have anything else then a "standard" photo page (ie don't use javascripts for pop-ups or something). A spliced picture will still be vulnerable to a simple print-screen. I'm having the same problem, and sometimes I find pics of mine on other sites. But the fact that they CAN grab those pics themselves saves me a bunch of work, since a couple of friends that are allowed to, can do the work themselves.... And the quality is so low, everybody else is welcome to them, if they just want to print them at home or save them as a background. My problems lately have mostly been because people are using original photo's I once gave them for something they shouldn't for instance our version of USPA had a competition where you could send in winter pictures for their xmas card. The 2 prize winner pictures were both made by me The one that won was made by me but I was paid for it, so other then that I would have liked to see my name on it too, that was ok. The other one was NOT. The guy that sent it in will not get the prize for it, but neither will I I'm against anything that is a lot of extra work for me, but I still want to make a script for photoshop to do the watermarks. Or if somebody already has one..? ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
videointhesky 0 #7 December 28, 2004 Arles Image Web Page Creator http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/ Is a cool Image Web Page Creator program that will let you add a water mark http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/screenshots/image7.htm or a logo http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/screenshots/image8.htm to your web page image The latest Arles6.0 beta 6 version has a "Disable right click" option built-in, this is maybe what your looking for to protect your web images I use Arles on my web site to make the photo pages and to add a logo to each image http://www.freefall-video.com/images/7-04/index.htm But I'm sorry to say there is no Mac version for the Mac users Videointhesky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
