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- Horp0
Yeah, do the owner a favour and offer some reward. What you're proposing to do with the flips, blurs and texture changes is attempting to get away with theft.
- PIITB0
lets see the original and the final.
- calcium0
We aren't trying to "get away" with anything.
We have no problem contacting the photographer and talking compensation, etc. I just didn't know if by modifying it the way that we did if we were set to go. I've heard people go through motions like that before and then be good to go. That's the only reason I asked.
- Horp0
^ Its a difficult question to know the answer to though isn't it. There are probably hundreds of occurances where the originator of the image remains oblivious to the theft but that doesn't mean its okay to do it, so anecdotes about using images in this way can be misleading.
- bulletfactory0
there is no % change rule. that would be a myth.
- sikma0
"We aren't trying to "get away" with anything."
then what's the point of this thread?
contact the photographer
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--------------------------------...- and what's the point of hiding it behind blurs and edits? pretty admitting that what you're doing is shady, no?7point34
- dibec0
respect goes a long way. pending your need ... you might get rights managed or royalty free. go ask.
- dibec0
it's alive!
- duckofrubber0
Contact the photog! What's so hard about this?
- ********0
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- calcium0
IT'S NOT HARD!
It was simply a question.
- ********0
just make it your own. ie unrecognisably theirs.
i often make montages.. sky from one, foreground rom another.. even that's pushing it but it's not very high end stuff.
- duckofrubber0
You're trying to justify theft.
If the image is the perfect image for whatever look the piece needs, then it is worth something.
- also, why would it be blurred and rotated if it was perfect?7point34