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Carradale

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Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post but my question is regarding a copyright signature, I use the basic one through LR but I would also like to use one with my signature and wondered how this can be done? Is there an easy process or does it need to be done by a specialist? I don't want to use it on all my images but it would be nice to have the option any info would be much appreciated Many thanks LA
 
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I have to ways at my disposal in Capture One.
  1. as biker said, an image that will be applied in overlay
  2. a text — the solution I use in all my posts — chose the
    text you want to appear, apply size, font, colour, post-
    ion on the picture… etc.
 
Scan, photograph or draw your signature in photoshop or similar, save as a file which supports transparencies - eg PNG, and then use that in LR signature builder.

If it were me, I wouldn't use my real signature - the signature that is on my driving license, bank card etc., I wouldn't want a copy of my real signature available online for all and sundry to abuse...
 
You can turn your handwriting into a font as well
https://wwwSPAMfeed.com/nicolenguyen/how-you-do-dat
 
These days with internet fraud, identity theft, etc, I think my signature would be about the last thing I'd want to copy and publish. Unless of course I 'invented' a unique one for putting on photos only.
 
Mr Badger said:
These days with internet fraud, identity theft, etc, I think my signature would be about the last thing I'd want to copy and publish. Unless of course I 'invented' a unique one for putting on photos only.
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Apart from anything else, watermarks in the form of little signatures or logos down in a corner of a photo are next to useless as they can easily be cropped or cloned out. The only effective watermark is a pattern that covers the whole image.
 
Northaway said:
Apart from anything else, watermarks in the form of little signatures or logos down in a corner of a photo are next to useless as they can easily be cropped or cloned out. The only effective watermark is a pattern that covers the whole image.
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A watermark, you are correct, does little to prevent copying but I'm not sure thats the reason most people use them. Most people (I think) just like to see that they are acknowledged and its a way of showing off YOUR own work. Like signatures on paintings really. The second thing it does do is that IF someone has cloned out the logo, in the case of chasing them for copyright it does stop them denying knowledge they were stealing.
Mr Badger said:
These days with internet fraud, identity theft, etc, I think my signature would be about the last thing I'd want to copy and publish.
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I'm not sure that a signature is much proof of who you are these days...
 
Eloise said:
A watermark, you are correct, does little to prevent copying but I'm not sure thats the reason most people use them. Most people (I think) just like to see that they are acknowledged and its a way of showing off YOUR own work. Like signatures on paintings really. The second thing it does do is that IF someone has cloned out the logo, in the case of chasing them for copyright it does stop them denying knowledge they were stealing
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I'm not really sure they work in that way. Personally watermarks just annoy me, especially if they're some illegible digitised signature scrawl. They certainly don't make me want to look into that photographer's work any more.

As for helping nail someone who's half inched a photo, they would just say they found the photo without the signature in the first place. In any case, ignorance is no defence so it wouldn't help them anyway.
 
Thanks for all the reply’s I will have a look at the links this evening I should also say in signature I mean something that is unique to me but not my exact signature something a little more fancy than the standard watermark....... I watched one video where they used the mouse rather than a stylus or pen and that looked entertaining to say the least! :ty:
 
Carradale said:
Thanks for all the reply’s I will have a look at the links this evening I should also say in signature I mean something that is unique to me but not my exact signature something a little more fancy than the standard watermark....... I watched one video where they used the mouse rather than a stylus or pen and that looked entertaining to say the least! :ty:
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Thinking laterally, perhaps you could use a characterised outline of a mouse (the little animal rather than the plastic computer accessory) as your trade-mark signature. After all, it was good enough for the artist Terence Cuneo. :D
 
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