Comments on: How Famous Images Look With Terrible Watermarks

By: rj

rj — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:29:00 +0000

Watermarks should be used like salt… sometimes they need it, sometimes they don’t. Subtle is key in my book… if anything to help reinforce branding, like an artist’s signature. But keeping it SUBTLE is key.

By: David Parrott

David Parrott — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Well, one easy way is to simply write it to Camera metadata, but there are more complex methods that involve writing it invisibly into image data.

By: MahonriM

MahonriM — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:59:00 +0000

Nothing wrong with the watermarks. Honest user will contact and pay licensing fees and use them without the marks. Thieves are the only ones who need to worry. Only trouble is we don’t have public hangings for art and copyright thieves.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:03:00 +0000

How does one embed an invisible watermark?

By: Marios Forsos

Marios Forsos — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:37:00 +0000

While I get the point, people should remember that once upon a time, McCurry’s image was extremely difficult to steal and misappropriate for commercial and other reasons simply because it was largely available in print and you’d need to scan a copy. Same with many of the other images here. Now, once an image is up on the web, chances are that within a day, it will have been copied and reused without permission over a thousand times… situations change and photographers, along with our perception of what is fair, have to change with them, otherwise…

By: Libby Hsiao

Libby Hsiao — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:31:00 +0000

If you know what you’re doing, it’s much better to embed an invisible digital watermark. They survive fairly severe cropping, and multiple forms of processing, and since most people don’t know they’re there don’t even remove them and are easily caught red handed.

By: Stephen Sullivan

Stephen Sullivan — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:25:00 +0000

Some people may spend loads of time adding watermarks, but the smart people just make actions.

By: Chris Rakoczy

Chris Rakoczy — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Tasteful watermarks have their place to help protect shareable images. The examples done here are just silly exaggerations to provide amusement, and aren’t really worth a lot of serious commentary.

By: Tess Leilani

Tess Leilani — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:39:00 +0000

Yeah… obnoxious watermarks are annoying, but it’s also a peeve of mine not to be credited. I usually make my watermark small and opaque and put it off to the side; it’s easy to crop out, and some people do, but most understand why it’s there and keep it.

By: Kenni Frandsen

Kenni Frandsen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Thats when you send them a huge bill.
Or sue them..