On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 11:15 AM, Ron Jones wrote:
My question is - how can you do that with a digicam image when, presumably,Ron
every copy that you or anybody else makes is an exact clone of the original?
I am obviously assuming that you haven't embedded a watermark, invisible or
otherwise, in the image.
For an 'out-of-the-box' suggestion, when you take the original shot, make sure you have plenty of 'out of frame' stuff at the edges of the picture; then simply keep the raw shot and only deliver a cropped version. If someone comes along at a later date, only you can produce an image that has more information in it, in the form of out-of-frame imagery that isn't in the delivered file. Things like camera stands, lighthood edges, gray ramps and colour cards, would be fairly hard to create convincingly in post without a lot of effort.
With the file sizes we are now talking about, you wouldn't see a significant loss of quality by only delivering a proportion of the raw file to your client.
Seems to me a lot easier way to 'watermark' an image, as well as give you a little more leeway when deciding on a crop.
HTH
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