How would you like to see watermarks?
If you want a watermark to be successful it needs to be big and ugly. Otherwise, it just lets the thieves know who shot it.
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MLKstudios wrote: Like disabling right-click, watermarks are a deterrent to online theft of images. But do consider EVERYTHING you put on the web to be publicized. It becomes public property.
If you want a watermark to be successful it needs to be big and ugly. Otherwise, it just lets the thieves know who shot it.
Welcome to the internet.
unfortunate but true 
MLKstudios wrote: Like disabling right-click, watermarks are a deterrent to online theft of images. But do consider EVERYTHING you put on the web to be publicized. It becomes public property.
If you want a watermark to be successful it needs to be big and ugly. Otherwise, it just lets the thieves know who shot it.
Welcome to the internet.
That's so nice of you to be so negative. Maybe the OP wasn't so much concern as to find a way to keep people from stealing, but more of a way to put their mark on their pictures. You ever think about that? What is wrong with placing a name onto one's pictures? Even if they get stolen, it happens, but at least until their name is taken off the picture, everyone who sees the picture will know it who the photographer is.
MLKstudios wrote: Like disabling right-click, watermarks are a deterrent to online theft of images. But do consider EVERYTHING you put on the web to be publicized. It becomes public property.
If you want a watermark to be successful it needs to be big and ugly. Otherwise, it just lets the thieves know who shot it.
Welcome to the internet.
Disabled right click can be overcome in seconds.
Nah, it does' t become public property legally. Though people will use it without your permission, they don't have the right to it unless you say so.
As for them being ugly. Yes sometimes.
But let's say someone in Hong Kong is using your photo, and out of the billions of web pages available, you stumble across it. You can send them a cease and desist letter, but if they don't remove it, how much are you willing to spend to get it removed? The law is NOT going to protect you.
Oh shit.. you're in Hong Kong!!
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
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