 Naveed Ulfat Khan |
help me my images are being stolen hi there is a guy who knows how to steal the images from the website here the the way he wrote it : **************** "Ali: Assalam-O-Alaikum, With referene to your reply at "Army Publc School & College" http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/free/gallery.php?memberID=114650 for a picture "Need to be free". I was just exploring the site and found a way to get any image I want to have, you can also do that. Here is the way simply save the page "http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/free/gallery.php?memberID=114650" on your computer. When you will copy it, a folder is created over there ( on the location where have you saved that page ) "Free Photo Gallery at BetterPhoto_com_files" where all the image files are. One more thing, all of these images are in thumbnail size, if you wanna have big pictures just click on the thumbnails and save that page ( which comes with another folder having that image ) Khuda Hafiz **************** this guy postet this post in orkut community and millions of people are gonna read it please do something u said these images will be my copy right but they aint this aint fair......i posted my images here thinking they are safe from piracy but they are NOT!!!!
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BetterPhoto Member |
Don't worry, none of the images on this site are worth more than $5,000, if there lucky. This is an amatuer website where we learn from each other, except for the online teachers. Relax
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Shawn Wilson |
First off, the only way to GUARANTEE that nobody can steal anything of yours is to not show anyone. period. Especially with the internet, because you are posting things for all to see. There is no way to absolutely prevent someone from stealing something they can see, no matter what anyone tells you. It can be made harder to steal, but never impossible. That being said, this site takes a step to protect against simply right clicking on an image and saving them locally, but all browsers don't supprot that, and even an IE user might disable JavaScript and get around it. One can always just capture the screen (a long time image piracy method) if all else fails. There are systems out there to prevent screen capuring as well, and some flash based systems that will prevent the kind of thing he told you about. Still though, one would always have the option of simply taking a picture of your picture on their screen. With an LCD screen there's no flicker so you can get a fairly good picture of the screen with a few minutes of trying. In the end, all one can do is hope for the best or not show anyone your work at all. You accept the good with the bad in this type of free exchange of ideas. If you're that worried, don't post ALL your work, and only post semi-low quality versions of what you do post so prints would be unsatisfactory if you're really worried. You can always privately send a high quality version for review if the need arrises.
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roberthambleyphoto.com - Robert Hambley Contact Robert Hambley Robert Hambley's Gallery |
Greetings, Also, a 72dpi image from the website isn't going to be worth anything for publishing. Try printing out one of your webpage pictures... see how small it is? Even if they expand them to a full 8x10 sheet, the 72dpi will show in the printed image. Put a copyright notice on your pictures. Ok, someone could crop or clone them out, but that is a lot of effort for a picture that can't be used commercially at 72dpi. Basically, if people are viewing your images on their computer, they already have a copy on their computer (it has to be there for it to show on the screen). Takes very little know how to save the image, even with the right click disabled. People saving them are saving images they like and/or want to use on their website (about all a 72dpi image is good for). If they try to sell the image somewhere, then they are probably going to be asked for a 300 dpi image, which even if they Photoshoped the 72dpi back to 300dpi, the resulting dimensions would be too small for publishing. Look at it this way, they liked your photograph enough to steal it. Try taking it as a compliment. Robert
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Michael H. Cothran |
ALL the above comments are correct. Don't worry about it though, as it is one of those things you CANNOT control. So, if you choose to publish, you have to accept the possibility that someone will "steal" your images on occasion. The images are too small to do anything with. Michael H. Cothran
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Julie M. Cwik |
Another way you can go around it, is by putting a watermark 'copyright' across (corner to corner) the whole image, this way this guy or whoever can't crop the copyright out.
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Shawn Wilson |
The watermark really is the best way to go to discourage people from even wanting your pictures. One suggestion though, if you do use a watermark, don't just make it a grey or single color one. Funny story... I was test driving some icons before buying them and the company had used a red stripe type of watermark on them. I was just test driving them though so I didn't care. Part of my test was to colorize them blue for my purpose and tada, the red watermark was nearly totally gone. I would suggest maybe a graphic composed of red stripes, blue stripes, grey stripes, and your name. Then just mix it in lightly and it should be enough to do the job. I'll post an example next. (Just so you know, I did end up using the icons for my project when it launched and purchased them to do so.)
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Shawn Wilson |
You'll have to decide how light your mark needs to be so as to not destroy the image, yet dark enough to discourage piracy. Good luck!
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h2okatcher |
So how do I go about creating a watermark using Photoshop? :)
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Shawn Wilson |
Whether you do it manually or automatically, you'll have to create the image just like you'd create any other. Make a new blank image and put what you want your watermark to be in there. Be it lines, words, symbols, etc... I haven't used an automatic watermark yet, so I can't say how they work, but to manually add this watermark to an image you would simply open the image in Photoshop, also open your watermark image, and either copy/paste your watermark as a new layer on top of your image, or drag it over. Then just play with the opacity until it's light enough to not be too distracting, yet dark enough to be discouraging. Another thought though... one might find it easier to simply drop the quality of the image with a dither filter or some other filter that while degrading the image quality, does not effect the point. A beautiful composition will not be hurt by a low quality (lower colors) The attached images show an original snapshot and then a version saved as a GIF at 128 colors and 100% lossy. You still get the point of the picture, although it's a horrible quality image by anyone's count. (although I remember when this kind of image was as good as you could get *smile*)
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