[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  On Wed Apr 23 21:26 , Sebastian Spiess  sent:
> 
>> hi all,
>>
>> for a while now I thought about this, did one of you ever put a watermark on 
>> a picture? Say when you send your picture to a 
>> competition or so to prove you are the owner etc...
>>
>> I am sure there are some linux tools to do that... but is it worth doing it? 
>> what about the picture quality...?
> 
> The "how" is ImageMagick:
> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/#watermarking
> 
> The "why" is entirely up to you.  I have some rather large clients in the 
> film, tv, photography and graphic design industries, and watermarking is a 
> pretty standard need for them to protect their revenue streams.  Anything 
> that covers your image will detract from it's quality, but it's up to you if 
> you don't trust the individual/group that will have access to the images 
> after you send them off. 
> 
> It's worth noting that "lack of trust" is not a negative thing either.  Trust 
> needs to be earned, not given by default and reneged when it's all too late.  
> These are the same reasons I give non-privileged user accounts to staff and 
> use SSH to connect to servers. :)
> 
> There are plenty of examples of people putting photographs on their personal 
> websites and places like flikr only to have them appear in commercial works 
> and advertising without their approval.
> 
> -Dan
> 

Hi Dan,
although the watermarking you mentioned but maybe it is not what I thought 
about in the first place.

I remembered an article in linux-magazine (Jan 2008) about Outguess a 
steganography tool to hide messages in pictures.

I will give it a whirl. Does anyone know this tool or a alternative? 
www.outguess.org seems a bit outdated

-- 
ubuntu-au mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Reply via email to