 Donna L. Jones |
How do you protect your photos? I put some clients photos on Face book so they could share them with family. Just found out they can print a pretty decent 4x6 from that. Won't do it again but how can I protect the pictures? Watermark them? Can anyone recommend a good watermark plugin for Photoshop?
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Jesse C. Plummer |
First, you can place watermark on them yourself with Photoshop or any other editing software. Secondly, Facebooks Terms of Use says all images placed on the site may be used by facebook in anyway it sees fit, including advertising with no compensation to the photographer. In other words, the copyright you own is willfully suspended by placing it on their site and you agreed to it so there is no recourse. Third, allowing your images to be shared by any social networking site may reduce your sells becuase why should they pay you if they can get it on facebook or myspace for free. And yes, they can download it and make copies. There are tons of free site hosting companies and even a few that will give you a custom domain name for free or cheap. Try one of those for online display and review. You can also download or write java scripts for right click protection. Get as many as you can to broaden the scope of protection as best you can.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Through the use of creative commons, if you put a photo on a place like flickr, anybody else can use your photo for certain things. Water marking right in the middle is probably still the best way to go. Screen captures can be done to java sites, but if somebody just doesn't want a picture because of a watermark, then it's done it's job.
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