Someone made a comment on one of my photos a while back and had talked about people stealing photos from flickr. Here's the photo discussing just one of my dilemmas.
Anyone you can go to google, type in your name, and if websites were nice enough to mention your name, then your photos would show up. But not all websites do that. I've found some of my Kevin Costner photos where they've pretended they owned the photos. Not cool and I was not nice about it.
So .. about 6 or 7 people have asked about adding copyright info. You want to not only add a watermark, but also fill in the copyright info. I found two websites on here that seem to sum it up pretty nicely and do pretty much what I do:
This shows just how to add the copyright info, but it does explain it out a bit better:
www.riecks.com/forphotogs/copyrightaction.html
This talks about how to add the watermark:
www.dphotojournal.com/watermarking-adding-copyright-with-photoshop/
It only talks about how to add the symbol, but it's the same process for adding in the text as well.
Also, something very important that I don't think they mention ... when you're done adding the watermarks, be sure to flatten the image (I think it's somewhere under the Image menu, but I don't have Photoshop here to check). Otherwise people can essentially pull the layers apart with the right software and remove the copyright. Also, export your image only at a resolution of 100dpi because people cannot have too much fun with that small of an image.
Definitely automate both of these .. I actually have mine done separate and not within the same 'action,' that way if I'm sending out a photo without the watermark, I can still easily add in the copyright info.
Anyone you can go to google, type in your name, and if websites were nice enough to mention your name, then your photos would show up. But not all websites do that. I've found some of my Kevin Costner photos where they've pretended they owned the photos. Not cool and I was not nice about it.
So .. about 6 or 7 people have asked about adding copyright info. You want to not only add a watermark, but also fill in the copyright info. I found two websites on here that seem to sum it up pretty nicely and do pretty much what I do:
This shows just how to add the copyright info, but it does explain it out a bit better:
www.riecks.com/forphotogs/copyrightaction.html
This talks about how to add the watermark:
www.dphotojournal.com/watermarking-adding-copyright-with-photoshop/
It only talks about how to add the symbol, but it's the same process for adding in the text as well.
Also, something very important that I don't think they mention ... when you're done adding the watermarks, be sure to flatten the image (I think it's somewhere under the Image menu, but I don't have Photoshop here to check). Otherwise people can essentially pull the layers apart with the right software and remove the copyright. Also, export your image only at a resolution of 100dpi because people cannot have too much fun with that small of an image.
Definitely automate both of these .. I actually have mine done separate and not within the same 'action,' that way if I'm sending out a photo without the watermark, I can still easily add in the copyright info.
