I am a photographer on the side so I can relate to your need to protect copyrighted photos. What we do is create a new layer in photoshop and type out what you want for a 'watermark'. (usually just the © and our studio name) Then you can change the opacity of the layer to make it light but still readable. You won't be able to fully protect any image on a website. Even disabling the right-click function is by-passable.
Anyone use a watermarking service?
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DEdwards said:
That's what I was going to suggest. As for protecting an image on the web, as long as there is a Print Screen button on the keyboard, you can't protect your work.
Adding a layer with your own 'watermark' as suggest above helps though as they are a real bugger to remove.
She's looking for more positive protection than a semi-transparent logo will provide. We're basically talking about two kinds of watermarks here. There's the traditional one where you put your logo on a semi-transparent layer over a part of the image. I think what she's looking for is like Digimark. What it does is actually encode copyright information as undetectable "noise" actually as part of the image. It covers the entire image and survives cropping, resizing, format changes, and plenty of other modification. Only problem is you have get a license for it.
geoffgarcia said:
Geoff,
OK, I have a better understanding now. To do it properly, you gotta pay for it! On a side note, there are screen capturing programs, shareware, that will capture anything on the screen and allow you to save it as a JPG or BMP. No need for the print screen function! I have one called MWSnap. I use it to quickly grab, save and print small portions of my CAD drawings. It's a lot faster than using the CAD Software to crop, save, etc.
I know there's no fool-proof method, but having the type of watermark provided by Digimark shows a good faith effort to protect the work. I mostly wanted to know if there were other companies offering a similar product--if we do buy this, fiscal rules state I have to get 3 bids unless there is only one source for the item.
As with something hanging in a museum--you can't prevent someone from copying or stealing, all you can do is try. I do have a layer that I put on most images, but for some, I'd prefer not to have anything visible on the image--consider it a blemish on someone's artwork. Cost isn't a big issue--this would be a license my work would purchase, rather than coming from my pocket.
As with something hanging in a museum--you can't prevent someone from copying or stealing, all you can do is try. I do have a layer that I put on most images, but for some, I'd prefer not to have anything visible on the image--consider it a blemish on someone's artwork. Cost isn't a big issue--this would be a license my work would purchase, rather than coming from my pocket.
http://www.watermarkingworld.org/
here is a list of about 15 companies that offer digital watermarking...
http://www.watermarkingworld.org/companies.html
here is a list of about 15 companies that offer digital watermarking...
http://www.watermarkingworld.org/companies.html
