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How to protect your Photos on the Web? A common question by Photographers…there are many different ways but Aperture 2 provides you with a simple and quick solution to place a Copyright watermark on all Your images.
Some thief’s go through great length and spend time removing even opaque watermarks in Photoshop, there is never a 100% guarantee even with Aperture and its automatic watermarking.
The perfect solution is don’t display your Images on the web…but I think these days are over and we all like our images out there…so how do we protect our images?
© Gunther Deichmann - aerial of Kayakers in Palau
Micronesia, barely
visiable and not to distructing from the image an
applied watermark
using Aperture 2
Here
are some simple Tips to make it harder for these
thief’s …
Make sure your images are in gif or jpg low
resolution but still good enough to show them in
their full glory. Avoid high resolution images, it is
an open invitation for thief’s and they slow down
your website.
Apply a watermark as described below using Aperture’s
settings.
I recommend placing an opaque watermark over the
entire image or covering one third of the image, this
is much harder to retouch. Don’t place your ©
COPYRIGHT name and notice on the sides or at the
bottom, this can be easily cropped
out.
Choose an opaque setting you are comfortable with and
is not to distracting from the overall visual.
(Opacity settings eg.0.1 to 1.0 all depends a bit on
the image, light or dark) With different options
available the opaque slider in Aperture 2
is a good start how the
watermark is going to look, just try different
settings until you satisfied.
Use only your name or create a logo in Photoshop as a
layered file,
it is entirely up to you. The screen shot below shows
you where to find the Watermark settings in
Aperture
2.
You can also deactivate the Watermark any time if you
need your images without it.
I provided you a link to “How do I protect my
images online” a
great article I found recently with some additional
options and tutorials to save guard your images from
those thief’s.
Go to Preference
and choose the export
icon, click and a drop down
menu appears. Click on Edit and another menu becomes
available.
Now you see all your Watermark options and settings.
(red square)
Below: Excerpts
from the mention article...
I am setting up an art website. I want to protect my
photographs. What’s the code that keeps you from
highlighting an image, right clicking an image,
copying an image, etc.
Protecting photos is a common request for
photographers wanting to put their content up on the
Web. You can do this with JavaScript or by
watermarking the image. There is no way to use
straight HTML to protect your images from
downloading. Some ways include:
* no right-click script
This prevents people from downloading the image when
they right click on it.
* Shrink wrapping
This hides the image by letting the thief download
something other than what they are trying to
download.
* Watermarking
This puts information on the image itself, so when
they download it, they have your copyright
information right on it.
* Flash
Flash makes it more difficult to steal images...
…read
more @
http://webdesign.about.com/b/2008/07/25/reader-question-how-do-i