Watermark/logo stamping

[runner2541]

Spoken like a true person with no talent of their own. Also, the photographer put the image on the internet. You put it on your computer. That's why you call it "YOUR computer." Idiot.

 

[thierry]

who the f*** you talking to like that mother f***er?

 

[KmH]

Spoken like a true person with no talent of their own. Also, the photographer put the image on the internet. You put it on your computer. That's why you call it "YOUR computer." Idiot.

Who are you trying to communicate with?

 

[Josh66]

Spoken like a true person with no talent of their own. Also, the photographer put the image on the internet. You put it on your computer. That's why you call it "YOUR computer." Idiot.

Actually, for you to be able to SEE it, it IS on your computer already. So in effect - the photographer put it on my computer and yours just by putting it on the internet.

All he is doing is making another copy of files that are already on his computer.

 

[Speckles]

I am so phucking confuzzled. What the shiz is anyone talking about. lmfao

 

[Josh66]

I am so phucking confuzzled. What the shiz is anyone talking about. lmfao

Someone said that they copy work they see on the internet, someone else apparently had a problem with that...

The fact is, anything you see on the internet is already on your computer. It has to be saved to your computer for it to be displayed for you. For example, your avatar is in a temporary folder somewhere on my machine.

If I wanted to save it, all I would have to do is find that file and move it to a different folder.


Like a previous poster said - if you don't want people to copy your stuff, keep it off of the internet.



I don't have a problem with people saving a copy of anything I post... I would have a problem with people using my work for other things though.


If you browse around on my Flickr and see something you like - I don't really care if you save a copy of it and use it for your desktop background or something... In fact, almost everything on there is full size, so there would be a high quality image for you to work with if you felt like it. The fact is, there isn't anything I can do to stop you from doing it anyway - so why waste time worrying about it? If I didn't want people to copy it, I wouldn't put it online. Or, I would just put a very small copy of it online...

Take that same picture and start selling prints of it - I would have a problem with that though.

 

[Josh66]

See -


Cache_001 by J E, on Flickr

All of those pictures are on my computer right now. I didn't put them there... It's just stuff I saw online, but it had to be saved to my computer in order for me to see it.

(BTW - If that window looks odd or cool or whatever, it's Linux - Ubuntu, specifically. I recommend that you at least try it out and see what you think. It is free after all...)

 

[KmH]

But the cache is temporary storage.

 

[Josh66]

But the cache is temporary storage.

I can make it permanent if I want by simply moving the files to another folder (or by adjusting the settings in my browser to not delete them).


I know what you're saying though. I think there is a line between simply 'copying' a picture and 'using' it.

If you want to copy one of my pictures and use it for a desktop background or something like that - go right ahead and do it. If you want to USE it though, well, you better get a license from me... (Which may or may not cost you - it all depends...)

 

[Blake.Oney]

I use watermarks for one thing, and one thing only. To keep clients from printing photo's that I put on facebook or my website. Sometime I don't really care if they had a couple prints made, but I use low res files and if they blew it up too big it would look like poo, so I watermark it. If I put a photo online I'm not worried about it getting stolen. If it did happen I would just confront whoever did it.

 

[RSisco]

Image A:

I say "Image A" has the digital watermark hidden in it, and I took your challenge and stole all three of the images by taking a screen shot of each one and saving each under new file names. No more hidden watermark. - In all fairness, if you didn't say there was a hidden watermark, I wouldnt have given it any thought.

Rick