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Mekanic01

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I just picked up a new camera, and I'd like to publish some of the photos to the web, but I need to put credit on them. I have photoshop, but what I need is something quick and simple to just throw a Photos By tag on it before uploading. Anything that's quick and easy, and preferably free?
 
Mekanic01 said:
I just picked up a new camera, and I'd like to publish some of the photos to the web, but I need to put credit on them. I have photoshop, but what I need is something quick and simple to just throw a Photos By tag on it before uploading. Anything that's quick and easy, and preferably free?
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I haven't used it myself, but I know that VSO image resizer has a "batch watermarking" tool where you can select the position of the watermark and all that good customizable stuff. Select (highlight) all the pictures you want to watermark, and you have a built in right-click menu which allows you to add watermarks to the images.
 
you can make an action in photoshop and just watermark all your images there.
 
Creating a Photoshop "action" batch is not hard. All you need is a saved psd image with transparency and your logo in the corner and that it is.
Sadly I found that to keep the top-right down placement, I need add a one pixel at the left top corner! Damn buggy Photoshop 6.01 :D

Results are there at every pic: http://capsmod.net/caps
Or there: http://capsmod.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=342

I think they are pretty satisfacting. Don't they? :p
 
Watermarks are the DEVIL, don't do it!

If you must, Irfanview does batch watermarking for free tho. And Irfanview just rocks anyway.
 
it is the devil, pending how you do it, but with so many people freely taking other's work and claiming it as their own or using it, they are unfortunately needed this day in age.
 
MrGuvernment said:
it is the devil, pending how you do it, but with so many people freely taking other's work and claiming it as their own or using it, they are unfortunately needed this day in age.
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Not really, they don't work, in any respect.
 
MrGuvernment said:
it is the devil, pending how you do it, but with so many people freely taking other's work and claiming it as their own or using it, they are unfortunately needed this day in age.
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Put your copyright info in the meta data, and sue anyone you find using your images.
 
Kadath said:
Only counts if you actually REGISTER your copyright. Metadata is only half the story, if you don't do the registration you don't get diddly:

http://www.naturescapes.net/docs/index.php/articles/341
http://www.photoattorney.com/

Registering Copyright works. Watermarks are the debbil.
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You own the copyright to your images as soon as you take the picture. Registering the copyright gives additional legal protection, but you are still protected if you choose not to register your copyright.

You don't have to have your name or any other information at all in your file to own the copyright, and it is still copyright infringement for anyone else to use your photo without permission, even if there was no way for them to determine who to contact for permission.

If I take a picture, leave all meta data blank, and post it anonymously on the internet, I can still choose to sue anyone who uses it without my permission. The only difficulty there would be that you can often only sue for damages in minor cases, and it would be hard to prove that you sustained damages if you chose to post it in that way. Now, if a company took that image and used it for marketing, or anything other commercial use, you could sue them for at least what would have been a fair rate to charge them for that usage. You'd have to be able to prove that you were the copyright owner, but the original raw file would do the trick.

You can even sue someone for reproducing your photograph by taking one that is very similar. The hardest part here would be trying to prove that they were trying to imitate your photo, and didn't just end up with a similar shot on their own. This will often happen when someone tries to buy rights, decides they don't like the price, and tries to make their own to avoid paying.

It is still better to register your work as it makes proving ownership much easier, and grants some additional rights. Even if you don't want to pay to register all your shots, you should at least register your more valuable shots if you are a professional photographer.
 
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