Safest way to post pics online

gerky

I'm just wondering what people recommend for posting photos online,like watermarking,resizing.
If I put a watermark on my pics what should it say.

rymus

a watermark will normally contain your name, your website or some other copyright statement including either of the two. For maximum safety (as much as is possibly on the internet), huge watermark, small file. Course that makes the photos awful to look at...

gerky

Sorry for sounding like complete dumba** but do I have to do anything to copyright my pics or is it automatic because I created them.

thebaz

I have a lot of photos to watermark , what is the easiest way to add a small copyright to them -- i don't have lightroom , have oldish copy of ps , it would be pretty painfull going trough 600 photos with ps , adding the text to bottom of jpg.

Will flickr allow me to make a global copyright addition to all my 600 jpg's up there, doubt it !
Would picasa allow me make a global copyright text addition ?

Looks like a painfull job -- probably my best option is to watermark my best , that mightn't take long !

magicbastarder

angel2 wrote:

Sorry for sounding like complete dumba** but do I have to do anything to copyright my pics or is it automatic because I created them.

it's automatic.

gerky

Thank for the info,thebaz Faststone photo resizer allows watermarking several files at once and its free.

nuada

http://www.imagemagick.org will let you add watermarks to loads of images at once.

Liam Byrne

Also depends on where you're posting them. If it's your own website, there are systems that will automatically watermark the images for you.

Other than that, use a batch command in PhotoShop or similar to do them.

Post the images online at a maximum of 600 pixels, longest side, and at about quality 7 or 8 (PhotoShop setting), to minimise the opportunity for someone to print the images - 600 pixels will give them a maximum of a 3-inch print at 200 dpi.

rymus

not nessecarily.. 500px images have been swiped off flickr and printed in large sizes successfully. See the recent flickr security thread.

gerky

So is this overboard.

dalk

Off topic but out of curiosity, how many people look at pics with large (ie effective) watermarks? Personally, i don't. Its an instant turnoff. I just can't enjoy the picture with a huge distracting piece of transparent text. Of course i am missing out, but anybody else feel this way?

trooney

angel2 wrote:

So is this overboard.

Yeah, but the clouds are ruining it. You can hardly read the type... bwah haw haw haw haw

rymus

yes it does definately ruin the viewing of the image, but thats the whole point really.. If someone can take a watermarked image and clone out the watermark easily (as could be done with the image angel posted) then it's not an effective deterrant.

There are packages out there to invisibly watermark images but they tend to get pricey if you've got alot of photos and I don't know how secure they'd be.

gerky

So kinda damned if ya do damned if ya dont, thanks for the help .

thebaz

i had a quick look at watermarking using ps , added a watermark, nothing appeared to get displayed , then it links to digimark , where it seams to cost 80 dollars to process 1000 pics -- is this correct way to get my name added ?
I just want to add something like

2002 Copyright Barry

jaqian

dalk wrote:

Off topic but out of curiosity, how many people look at pics with large (ie effective) watermarks?

I don't. Big turn-off.

City-Exile

thebaz wrote:

2002 Copyright Barry

Typically, it's done (c) Barry Boy 2002

thebaz

City-Exile wrote:

Typically, it's done (c) Barry Boy 2002

do you know the easiest way to add this to image in photoshop, i was hoping to do it using the digmark filter ? without paying

Paulw

You can just create a Photoshop brush, with your signature on it, and use that in your image.

An Example - A pict of mine.

thebaz

Paulw wrote:

You can just create a Photoshop brush, with your signature on it, and use that in your image.

An Example - A pict of mine.

Something like that is what i want, i'm using ps cs , and am crap with it , what steps did you actually use to create brush , it didn't work for me ! cheers.

also , when i create the brush, can i add this sig to a batch of files, rather than 1 at a time

Roen

thebaz wrote:

Something like that is what i want, i'm using ps cs , and am crap with it , what steps did you actually use to create brush , it didn't work for me ! cheers.

also , when i create the brush, can i add this sig to a batch of files, rather than 1 at a time

That's what actions are for. Super for saving time and batch processing loads of images.

thebaz

ok , i have created my own copyright in ps , what do you think ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/537663636/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebaz/537663644/

Roen , did it one by one, must experiment with actions, never used the before !

Fenster

Doesn't look bad, the watermark I use is a link to my site, mostly for the sake of ensuring attribution in use of my photos.

Another thing to try is a flash gallery (easier to make than you'd imagine, there's several tools out there to easily generate one - this was ten minute's work in Lightroom). They can maybe grab small sized files by screen caps, but it's definately a safer way to post files for most purposes.

familyguy

The digimark thing in PS is an invisible watermark which can only be read if you know what you're looking for. So if people steal it, they don't know it's watermarked, and you can prove it belongs to you.

Of course, it doesn't stop them using it, just means you can prove its yours... if you find out

thebaz

familyguy wrote:

The digimark thing in PS is an invisible watermark which can only be read if you know what you're looking for. So if people steal it, they don't know it's watermarked, and you can prove it belongs to you.

Of course, it doesn't stop them using it, just means you can prove its yours... if you find out

Well no wonder i could see nothing so, i'm happy eneogh with my copyright image i'm using, this digimark thing ain't free either, couple of hundred to register your name.
thanks for the heads up.