Just curious. Don't have many of my own pics out there, more looking at work. There are a few different services available, and I'm not sure what's good and what's not--price wise, ease of use, effect? Feel like I'm trying to buy a car for the first time...
Anyone use a watermarking service?
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Just spoke to my web guy..........I thought it could be done simply in Photoshop. I didn't realize you have to register with a company that provides the service, etc.! I know people that have used Digimark (through the link from Adobe) and have been very happy with the service.
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If the images you post are all 100K and say 600 pixels wide or less, I can't see why you would have to use a watermark service. If someone enlarges the image it's going to degrade anyway. If they reduce it, you won't loose the watermark??? I could see watermarking hi res images like wallpaper shots or maybe blueprints or schematics. Other than that why not just make a "property of" layer in photoshop and apply it yourself without any of the registration hassles and cost???
If the images you post are all 100K and say 600 pixels wide or less, I can't see why you would have to use a watermark service. If someone enlarges the image it's going to degrade anyway. If they reduce it, you won't loose the watermark??? I could see watermarking hi res images like wallpaper shots or maybe blueprints or schematics. Other than that why not just make a "property of" layer in photoshop and apply it yourself without any of the registration hassles and cost???
For most of the pics, that's what I have done. They are decent within the layout, but if you try to blow them up, they pixellate...badly. Spent quite sometime working on that one. The problems is those commissioned works--part of the contract outlines that we will protect the image from unauthorized use--and I've already found that images that can't be blown up and look good are being tiled and set as backgrounds. Not cool. Contacting the webmaster for those sites has been less than rewarding, so I'd like to have an option like the Digimark watermarking--it generates a trackable imprint in the file, citing copyrights.