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A colleague just sent me the link below. I'm curious... how many of you watermark your work before sending to a client? I don't like the idea personally.
- Never have, prob never will. Doing shit like that would damage my client relationships built over many years.fadein11
- re: watermarksfadein11
- I do if it's a new enquiry and I'm not wholly confident they won't simply forward my efforts to a competitor and ask "how much dis shit?"detritus
- I've got a wee downsizing app that I drop photos or screengrabs into that sizes to something suiting both desktop and mobile, and adds my logo into a corner.detritus
- never ever. sounds like kanye west.
brand the presentation if you want to promote yourself or your company.uan - just send lo-res art - useless to any client thenfadein11
- Not for the sort of stuff I send out — I often send copyable 'solutions' in regard to a brief not artwork that could be re-sourced.detritus
- I always use this as a rule of thumb on stuff like this - did Peter Saville / Neville Brody watermark their work? Did they fuck.fadein11
- I don't. But I don't see it as a trust issue with the client, i think it's more a branding thing. I'm just too lazy to do it.Gnash
- gnash - watermarking is more about protecting your work than branding no? obvs if I do a presentation my logo is in the corner. Perhaps I need to read the linkfadein11
- Well the link suggests doing to save people stealing your work. Personally I think it's all utter fucking guff.********
- I'm know that most use it for protecting work -- as it's intended. but I see it as a branding opportunity. mock-ups get passed around a lotGnash
- and by watermark I mean some tiny thing in the corner, not a big-ass logo in middle of the imageGnash
- The only people who have stolen my work (twice in 20 years) were fellow designers not fucking clients. I have always been a bit fussy about who I work withfadein11
- though. A decent work contract protects you 100% without making your presented work look like a fucking stock library.fadein11
- trueGnash
- Totally agree fadein
You big stinky shithead.******** - Well suffice to say I didn't agree with my colleague on this one, so naturally I called him a stupid small brain and suggested he fuck off home early.********
- :)fadein11
- awemonospaced
- for print work I used to send low res but only so I can add this in an email. If someone refuses to pay I call the fucking lawyer.mekk
- but I never had to and I always got my money. :)mekk
- Never watermarked any design delivery, done on illus with new clients, but allways i have been confident with them... Zero problems this kind everOBBTKN
- Same 'ere********
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- lol********
- It depends. In the industry I work for (pharma), we must, due to clients' policies.maquito
- I had a client that tried running ads using artwork they rejected. That was some fucking bullshit.monospaced
- Instead of watermarking, I deliver encrypted PDFs and disable any ability to edit the artwork.futurefood
- You're joking?
How do you achieve the latter?detritus - when exporting in Illustrator, you can turn off editingmonospaced
- ^+1futurefood
- You mean unchecking 'Preserve Illustrator Editing'? If so, that just makes things a bit awkward to edit — it by no means, at all, secures the file.detritus
- look around, there are other security features in the PDF export settings, including passwords for printing, etcmonospaced
- You can make a PDF read-only, essentially.monospaced
- If it's a pitch, I put a copyright disclaimer at the bottom (in case they steal the ideas) but never a watermark regardless of what it is.HAYZ1LLLA