Jan wrote: What's weird is that when I clicked on the link, it opened a mini window and that picture had the watermark on it. Just for curiosity, I right clicked and saved the picture and there is no watermark on that one. Don't you think the saved picture should have the watermark on it too?
Mary of Omaha responded (do any of you remember "Mutual of Omaha"???): Well.... I was wondering the same thing myself! When I right clicked on the actual article photo, ie; the smaller picture, my browser came back with a "disabled" feature. (IE 6.0) So I saved the whole web page to my hard to check the pic's! It is strange that the smaller photo had no watermark Even in my photoshop! I guess they feel that viewers are more likely to "steal" the larger photos and copyright them as opposed to copyrighting the smaller pictures?!!?! I thought it was an interesting topic for more discussion here. Just some food for thought here! Tim: This is pretty much standard practice...the small thumbnails don't have any watermarks, but are small enough and grainy enough that they're essentially unusable in production. The big versions are watermarked to help prevent theft. We ended up buying about 30 small pics for our website (on the practice area pages); in most of those cases, we *could* have used the free "comp" version of the images (small low-res ones designed for page layout checking), but did the right thing and purchased full versions of each one and shrunk them to the size we wanted. If you visit image sources like Getty, you'll see this all over their site - small comp images with no watermarks, and the larger ones with them. Paying for them gets you a version without the watermark. Tim <wondering if any of his old photos are worth US$30 a pop...> ___________________________ Tim Furry Web Developer Foulston Siefkin LLP ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
