Watermarking original work
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- kodap
Howdy,
I know this has been debated somewhere, but I wanted to hear from you: your thoughts and concerns about this insane freedom of sharing each others stuff...Should I watermak all my folio works - (I'm really considering this) text above the photo/artwork/illustration), no bar on the bottom, just a pasted/action text over the image?
In a way, it's been bugging me for years the fact that this isn't the most professional way of presenting the images on a web/app based portfolio...Tumblrs, pinteresters, bloggers, etc, reblog, repost, pin, bookmark, hotlink over and over and over more and more, without having in mind they should concern about the intelectual property... ok let's assume they forget to mention or don't have time for the original credited source or owner, but it's becoming insane how easy is to rip off and go along as if it's nothing special, by just assuming "they" found over the intornetz... really - you certainly have friends, parents, cousins who think that, I have. don't bullshit on me.
So. should I go and watermark my works (specially the most recent ones) even tho it doesn't look "that professional" in a folio?
- BaskerviIle0
On tumblr (which is just my photography), I watermark my images subtley in the bottom right hand corner. I make sure I set the content source as my website and also put a click-through link back to my site too. It doesn't stop anyone taking the images but hopefully I'll get the credit. Since it's just personal stuff I'm happy to put it out there. I've seen some of it cropping up on Pinterest which I'm not part of. Part of me thinks it's bad that my images are being taken from Tumblr and then pinned up on Pinterest, but then the other half of me is flattered that someone bothered to do it.
For folio work I'm not sure about watermarking, since it could ruin the look of the design work. In general people on the internet are lazy and if they can't just grab a jpg they won't. So any barrier you can put up to stop people from dragging and dropping jgps, the better.
But if you're really worried about people stealing the content of your designs then just don't make your site public. Put it behind a password and only share it with who you want to.
- bjladams0
a local photographer came in last year to the studio to have us help put together a site for them.
we asked them to supply 4-5 of their best pics for the landing page.
1 of the 4 they gave us looked really familiar - and in the end turned out to be one my partner's wife took 2 years ago.
they denied it until we showed them the original, unedited one, and the others from the same shoot.
we didn't end up finishing off that site.
(sorry, doesn't answer your question...)
- the fuck?johnny_wobble
- my blood pressure rose just reading that!BaskerviIle
- This sounds totally common for photogs. I hear shit like this all the time.monNom
- tin-eye and google images should put a stop to this.monNom
- i_monk0
If you don't, Br#t B&sh will.
