How to protect your work?

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Hi, I am going to set up a website to display the best of my work, up untill now Deviantart has really been my main source of sharing my work, but I want to put some of my best onto my own website.
What percautions should I take when putting my work on my own site, I have heard that I should make the images not too big, so that its less likely to be nicked or something, what size do you lot suggest? Can I put copyright stuff on it? will it just be my real life name and a (c) logo? Is there anything that I should know? I dont want to make a hipse of this lol, :(

ok thanks for reading :)
 
Realistically if someone wants to "steal" your image that bad, they will, nothing will stop them, aside from not putting it on the net ;). You can lower the quality of the images, but lower them too much and you risk people getting the arse with the quality, you can put your name on them, but that can be removed. :shrug:

I put mine on the net at around 80kb files, which lowers the quality to a reasonable standard, but it's not good enough to use anywhere but the net.

I also put my website address in the bottom right hand corner.

HTH?
 
Low res (72 ppi), copyright mark (name, company, website etc) over the image and if possible, disable right-click on the page (a google search will show you how to do this), or embed them in a flash-app :)

HTH

Lee
 
LeeP said:
Low res (72 ppi), copyright mark (name, company, website etc) over the image and if possible, disable right-click on the page (a google search will show you how to do this), or embed them in a flash-app :)

HTH

Lee
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Nothing a screen grab won't get round though :)

I say just put a small watermark on and just use images that aren't big enough to make prints from and that should do you :)
 
ok thanks for your replies, ill watermark my images and make them quite small, what copyright mark can I put? I dont have a clue when it comes to that.
 
Nick mine if you like I say - they will print like crap as my website is just 100kb & 600 px on the long side

Watermarks just spoil the image anyway and can be distracting

Serious people will buy, ******s will steal whatever you do - I know a chap who says a screen image of his was shown several feet wide in India once! Pixels the size of After-Eight mints!!!
 
Personally I don't bother with a watermark either.. if you add a small one it's very easily removed so a bit pointless & if you add a very large one it tends to spoil the image.
Only time I use them is on Ebay but for "promotion" purposes only.

As already mentioned best bet is to keep the image size no larger then 600pixels on the long side & use a strongly compresses version - I normally output my .jpgs from photoshop as "high" (8).

Ultimately if someone wants your shot badly they'll get around pretty much everything to try so all you can do is discourage them

simon
 
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