Acutually, I have been signing my images with copyrights on all the stuff I have previously put on the web - because the web images are not intended to be ones people print.
what smugmug does is add a watermark to the images as seen on whatever galleries you ask them to watermark - but the watermarks are never on the original files and you can take them off and put them on at their site at will... I didn't think of watermarks as copyright info, though, just as something that would appear when someone tried to print you images and make them funky as a result. smugmug takes care of applying them to all images for viewing on the web that I chose - but they claim they dont bother if your original image is small/low res. thanks for the info, Godders ann Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >I've been putting watermarks on the larger versions of my image files >in the PAW set for a while. An example can be seen here: > >http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/large/03-half.jpg > >That's actually little bolder/more intrusive than I would prefer, but >putting in watermarks is fussy and depends on the base image. I've >got a Photoshop script that does that style which I've been meaning >to re-work. > >Lightroom can also apply a simple watermark to an image on Export but >I see no explicit way of controlling where it appears or what font/ >size/transparency is applied. For example, here were two files >exported at the same time: > >http://homepage.mac.com/godders/by-the-window-2187a.jpg >http://homepage.mac.com/godders/friends-2188.jpg > >What's in the watermark will be what you've applied to the image in >the IPTC metadata "copyright" tag. EG: > >http://homepage.mac.com/godders/tp-2271.jpg > >Aside from the content of the watermark and the style you want to >use, if you need to watermark a bunch of existing JPEGs, various have >recommended iWatermark in the past. > http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iwatermark/ >I've not actually used it yet myself but it sure looks like a good >tool to try. > >Godfrey > >On Mar 2, 2007, at 11:03 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > > > >>So now I'm signed up on smugmug - >>when quickly uploaded my ashley calendar pics and chose smugmug >>watermark I got a >>large and too concealing "proof" across the center of the image... >> >>one is permitted to use one's own watermark >>which I figure I would like to just be my copyright very faint >>along the >>bottom, >>but I've seen others that are a faint texture across the whole image. >> >>what have you guys been using? >> >> > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
