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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
Light of HOPE ? Burma/Myanmar...how much longer? Is it becoming GENOCIDE? The suffering continues...
BURMA/Myanmar
how much longer?
Another reminder!
It
is the Typhoon/Monsoon season... how would we feel if
we had to suffer like these beautiful and gentle
people in Burma? The hard line Regime is still not
moving, thousands more have to
die...Why
?
A
Country I got to know... not only for its culture but
for it's beautiful people, they had a difficult life
before... but NOW it
is Genocide.
GD
Light of
Hope?
© Gunther Deichmann - On the banks of the
Irrawadi River near Bagan,Burma/Myanmar 1996
(Original Image taken
on Tri-X black and white
film)
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/seasia1-5.html
Stock Photos…images available 24 hours a day via PhotoShelter online… in high & low resolution, browse the Gunther Deichmann Archive Gallery with constant updates from more than 20 Countries
Stock Photos…images available 24 hours a day via
PhotoShelter online…
For
those who don’t know how the
PhotoShelter Archive Gallery
looks like, I
have provided a screenshot see
below.
Currently
there are close to 4000 images in high resolution
available covering Countries like:
Australia – Pitcairn – Tahiti - Germany – Italy –
Greece – Spain – France – Indonesia – Laos – Thailand
- Burma/Myanmar – Vietnam – Cambodia – Taiwan –
Palau- Yap - Pohnpei - Chuuk (Micronesia) Guam-
Saipan - Philippines – Brunei – Malaysia - Singapore
– Hong Kong - India – Tibet…
Environmental images, some generic commercial work,
Sports and activities, Wildlife, special effects and
composites.
The contend of each folder has a full description and
the number of images inside, click the folder and you
see the selection of the country or category.
There is also a folder with most of the
high-resolution images from the Book…
“Journey
Through Color
&
Time”
Check the link below and browse the gallery, scroll
down & once the Home page is up on the left hand
side you see this box (see screenshot below) just
click on… red
oval.
View
all Galleries.
http://www.photoshelter.com/c/gdeichmann
For Gunther’s commercial work over the past few years
please visit:
http://web.mac.com/gdimages/gdimages/Home.html
You can also
visit: http://www.deichmann-photo.com/
GD
Luis Martin Harder…his first Exhibition at One Workshop Gallery in Manila & at the same time “Reunion” with some of my students from the Cambodian GDPhotoWorkshop.
Cool images
by Luis Martin Harder…
“Unscripted”
All Photos above
by Hermes Singson, by the way
Luis is the one in the dark maroon/blue
shirt
Congratulation
to Luis Martin
Harder one of my students from the
Cambodian GDPhotoWorkshop last year…he really went
out his way and show cased his very first Exhibition
on the 13th of May in Manila.
Since Cambodia he has done real well, more than 30
images from Cambodia and the Philippines are on
display, very impressive work I might add and I am
very proud of him.
A good and mixed crowed attended the opening night at
the One Workshop Gallery including other familiar
faces like good old Bebet Gaudinez (I am just waiting
to see
his Exhibition) and Jasmine Manabat who also attended
my PhotoWorkshop last year,
almost like a “little reunion”.
Photographers like Wig Tysman, Tilak Hettig, George
Tapan and many other personalities including Henry
Bateman Artist/Writer showed up to give Luis the
credit he deserves, of course the host Photographer
Master printer and Artist Ross Capilli and his wife
made sure everybody had enough to drink and
eat. Thanks
Ross.
Congratulations again to Luis Harder for a great show
and super cool images…
You might remember from one of my earlier blogs…he
was the one who received the Aperture
software,
(which was
sponsored by the Power Mac Center in
Makati)
during our Cambodian GDPhotoWorkshop, see the image
below in case you have forgotten.
Thanks for inviting me
and being part of your show, keep up the good work
Luis.
GD
The
winning shot, by © Luis Harder, Cambodia
2007
F1 GRAND PRIX & Formula BMW Racing CALENDAR for 2008...including the very first F1 Race in Singapore at NIGHT...a challenge for Nikon v. Canon in low light conditions.
Let see who is the winner on this track...
But did you know that Aperture 2 or now 2.1 is going to be in China at the Olympic Games in full force, not me this time, but many Pro's going to be there using Apple Aperture 2 software...a lot more on this later.
GD
Due to popular request I have provided you the dates for the F1 Grand Prix and Formula BMW Racing events for 2008.
The most exciting and the very first F1 GRAND PRIX NIGHT race in Singapore is on Sep 26 - 28 (Rd 15 & 16) Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore
Formula BMW and F1 Grand Prix Calendar 2008
March 21 - 23 (Rd 1 & 2) Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia (along with F1)
May 16 - 18 )(Rd 3, 4, 5 & 6) Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
June 21 - 22 (Rd 7, 8, 9 & 10 Zhuhai International Circuit, China
July 18 - 20 (Rd 11, 12, 13 & 14) Sentul International Circuit, Indonesia
Sep 26 - 28 (Rd 15 & 16) Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore (along with F1)
October 10 - 12 (Rd 17 & 18) Fuji Speedway, Japan (along with F1)
F1 Grand Prix at night soon in SINGAPORE...the very first & supported by the Eurasia Team and of course Marlon Stockinger Philippines & Aditya Patel India...“I want to own a Ferrari team” Aditya Patel is all tuned up…
Wow…what a statement from Aditya…but then why not!
Back to the F1 Grand Prix and Formula BMW… this time a report from India.
Received two articles from Kamlesh Patel in Chennai India… Mumbai? India? Sounds very familiar… it is still around from one extreme to the next again.
OK. OK. That’s enough…back to our young Racing Driver from The Eurasia Team who made 3rd place recently in Sepang Malaysia.
Now the team is looking forward to the big and exciting race in Singapore soon, the very first F1 Grand Prix at night. Is this going to be very fast?
But for sure furious… The Formula BMW Eurasia Team with Aditya Patel & Marlon Stockinger will be there as the support race in their Formula BMW.
OK. That’s about it … see below some magazine articles from India featuring Aditya Patel & GOOD LUCK to the Eurasia Team.
GD
These articles just arrived from Chennai India...for
more details visit
Aditya Patel's website click on the images or this
link:
http://www.adityapatel.in/latest.html
APERTURE 2 Tip...iPhoto Library and Aperture 2.1 how well do they work together? Real well...& so useful if you started in iPhoto and switched to Aperture 2...iLike...or is it iLife.
Before the arrival of Aperture some of us used iPhoto but found it had its limitation… now you installed Aperture 2 and keep going back to iPhoto for these older images…Yes?
No need… you stay in Aperture and have access to all your iPhoto images and can leave them there, no need for importing all the high-end stuff, no more switching back and forth.
As a matter of fact you can do this not only with iPhoto but also with your images stored on your external drives from years ago as mention in one of my earlier blogs.
Now back to iPhoto and Aperture 2, because of the integration everything works just so smooth and the cool part is staying in one software instead open up half a dozen or so…
Check out the screen shot below for more details, so there you have it, full access to your iPhoto Library.
I normally use my iPhoto Library for my Blogs and personal images like the kids and family and use Aperture 2 for my Pro stuff, keeping them separate. The choice is yours how you like to manage your images, it is easy to import your complete iPhoto Library and use Aperture 2.1 working with one software.
That is why I love Aperture…given YOU the choice.
A little tip... if you have mixed up your personal images with some others but like to separate them, import the iPhoto Library into Aperture, once that is done delete all the personal images in Aperture and your images are organized, dont worry your personal images are still in the iPhoto Library since you selected in the import panel leave in current location.
Now you can go back to iPhoto and delete the non personal images...
I call this a real spring clean.
GD
Go to
File in Aperture
2 scroll
down and select Import
then
Import iPhoto Library, make sure you
select leave images
in their
current location.
Aperture
automatically creates a new Folder
(see the
red square on the screenshot)
containing your complete iPhoto Library,
Depends on how many images
you have stored in your iPhoto
Library this could take some time
since Aperture
2 creates
Thumbnails and Previews.
This is a screen shot of my iPhoto Library and you
can see (I selected the underwater images) they are
now in my Aperture Library.
Visit Gunther Deichmann's
website @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/home.html
APERTURE 2 Tip...where do I find my Camera info...this is nice if You like to compare DATA...very cool & not only for the Pro's...
A cool
little Aperture 2 Tip...
Where
do you find at a push of a button YOUR Camera Info
when you like to compare your shots after the shoot
in Aperture
2.1
See the provided screen shot below, the small drop
down menu (small
red circle) is where you find
...Show and
Hide Camera & Color info...the
red
oval shows you the data, you
have to be in the adjustment mode/panel.
This is very useful when comparing shots, what might
have gone wrong or right...You can also move your
Cursor over the image to get the color Value in
between the images, the grey area will show you the
Camera info. Play around and you find this is a very
useful addition in Aperture
2.
You can also move your cursor over your Thumbnails...
for those of you who are still in the early stage of
Photography this command is great for analyzing your
images quickly.
Try it out and have some fun...Aperture is not only
great for the Pro's but it can help you to take
better images by quickly finding out what went wrong
or right.
GD
Visit Gunther
Deichmann's website @
http://www.deichmann-photo.com/home.html
Gunther Deichmann UPDATED BLOG Page...see for yourself and go to http://www.deichmann-photo.com/blog.html
We keep these to a minimum number, we like to be informative and not clutter up our site, they are very much related to photography, travel, latest on Aperture 2, the Digital Photo Center in Palau complete with Wi-Fi and Aperture, Underwater Photography and other similar subjects.
Now a special mention on the new PALAU TOURS Website, announced only today... a great NEW SITE for PALAU in Micronesia with stunning images and very informative text...
"The
Pearls of the Pacific" and Natures best kept
secret.
Click
on the image and visit the NEW PALAU TOURS WEBSITE
http://www.palautours.com/
Click
on the image and visit the NEW PALAU TOURS BLOG
http://www.palautours.com/blog.html
This new site is still undergoing development, but it
is out in Cyberspace now, including the
NEW
PALAU TOURS BLOG with frequent up dates,
check the blog @ http://www.palautours.com/blog.html
GD