How come people get worked up over watermarks?

10 years 5 months ago #310071 by Dana Leeson
I can understand if the watermarks are huge and take up the entire photo, but if the watermark is smaller size, why do people get worked up over them? Isn't the whole idea of a watermark to establish brand recognition?


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10 years 5 months ago #310085 by effron
It shouldn't matter. Whoever posts the photos, watermarked or not, its their photo, their choice...no?

Why so serious?
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10 years 5 months ago #310093 by Tim Chiang
Loaded topic this one is. Watermarks are the creators choice. I have seen some watermarks that are indeed atrocious that take up so much of the photos space. But that's their choice. What I do find comical are the photos that are bad photos to start that have this huge ugly watermark going through the center. I think some photographers are delusional in their photos quality.


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10 years 5 months ago #310175 by StephanieW
There's no reason for anyone to get upset over small unobtrusive watermarks. Giant watermarks through the center of an image can throw things off, but, as others have stated, totally the creators choice. People who crop watermarks off of photos suck though. I've posted photos before saying that if you want an unwatermarked copy you can contact me and as long as you source me we're cool, but nope, they just hack it off and post without credit. It infuriates me like crazy.


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10 years 5 months ago #310209 by Stealthy Ninja
People get worked up over watermarks?! :huh:
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10 years 5 months ago #310275 by renanpaiva
I ready about that and I found an interesting thing about, you don't need watermark your photos just upload in small size such as 1600px in the big size.

If you apply the 300 dpi rule the max size for print is 5"x4".

And for web is a good size.


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10 years 5 months ago #310321 by garyrhook

StephanieW wrote: I've posted photos before saying that if you want an unwatermarked copy you can contact me and as long as you source me we're cool, but nope, they just hack it off and post without credit. It infuriates me like crazy.


Send a takedown notice to the hosting provider. That'll fix 'em.


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10 years 5 months ago #310501 by Foxy Girl

effron wrote: It shouldn't matter. Whoever posts the photos, watermarked or not, its their photo, their choice...no?



:agree:


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10 years 5 months ago - 10 years 5 months ago #310503 by StephanieW

garyrhook wrote:

StephanieW wrote: I've posted photos before saying that if you want an unwatermarked copy you can contact me and as long as you source me we're cool, but nope, they just hack it off and post without credit. It infuriates me like crazy.


Send a takedown notice to the hosting provider. That'll fix 'em.


It's Tumblr though. I have actually contacted Tumblr staff and gotten them removed successfully though, but it's so widespread I can't track down all of them. And once people reblog things on Tumblr you can't remove the reblogs. You can only remove the original post so if you want it to stop spreading you have to catch it immediately. I got two people successfully removed before anyone reblogged it, but I've seen my pictures go across my dashboard with hundreds or thousands of notes and there is no way to remove those.

To clarify, these are often pictures of celebrities and people include my work in photosets. I'm flattered to be included, but frustrated when they don't provide link backs.


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10 years 5 months ago #310787 by Silver Fox
I don't get worked up. If you want to add a watermark, good for you. It's your choice.


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10 years 5 months ago #311963 by Soccer Mom
I personally don't place watermarks on mine, but don't really have a problem with those that do.

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10 years 5 months ago #312017 by Joves
I do not care if people want to watermark or not. And Stephanie it sounds as if you need to do it in an intrusive matter so the cannot crop it out easily. Granted that will not be much of a deterrent for somebody that has the right program, but for most of the idiots you are dealing with I bet it will.


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10 years 5 months ago #312089 by StephanieW

Joves wrote: I do not care if people want to watermark or not. And Stephanie it sounds as if you need to do it in an intrusive matter so the cannot crop it out easily. Granted that will not be much of a deterrent for somebody that has the right program, but for most of the idiots you are dealing with I bet it will.


I do it small and unobtrusively in the corner. I assumed people in my groups would respect it. I was so incredibly wrong.


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10 years 5 months ago - 10 years 5 months ago #312441 by StephanieW
This comic went across my Tumblr dashboard and I thought it was appropriate for this thread. It made me laugh.

It's titled "How to remove watermark's from other people's art."





source


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10 years 5 months ago #312559 by garyrhook
:rofl: Awesome.


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