Watermarking questions...

[flyhippie]

I have my photos with a watermark in the lower/left corner. I use photos like this on facebook...and love that lightroom will just apply it. HOWEVER, I have a smugmug acct that people can order prints from...and if I upload the exported photos to smugmug, there's clearly a watermark...which people aren't gonna want.
So...
Is there something I'm missing? Should I upload to smugmug with NO watermark? Is there a something from lightroom that will include it on the web and not include it in print? How do you guys handle this?

Thank you...

 

[Big Mike]

If you upload a photo to smugmug with a watermark, smugmug doesn't know that it has a watermark, it's just part of the photo...so if they are going to print it, the watermark gets printed as well.

I don't know much about smugmug, but is there a way to have them apply a watermark, just on the display of the image? That would solve your problem.

Personally, I use a photo store that resides right on my own website. I can choose to have it watermark the images or not. But either way, with this set up, the orders come to me and I have to send the prints to the lab....and of course, I wouldn't send images that have a watermark.

 

[KmH]

The SmugMug watermark is only there online to deter people from right clicking, or taking a screen shot of photos on SmugMug. If someone orders a print it won't have the SmugMug watermark on it.

SmugMug likely has a feature that allows you to disable SmugMug's watermark.