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Cyrus khamak Posted 521 Days, 23 Hrs ago

Wino,<div>Will you please give me a link to a place where you think photos are "protected" ? I will get the "protected" photo for you in no time.</div><div>ALSO, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING. THIS IS A MAILER WE KEEP ON SENDING TO EVERYONE:</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>PLEASE PUT YOUR NAMES ON YOUR PHOTOS PLEASE, DO NOT UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS WITH NO NAME ON THEM, ON ANY SITE ! Your photos and your artwork, are YOUR copyrighted material and no one else should use them without your permission.Some people are STEALING YOUR PHOTOSand are posting them to their Facebook walls and elsewhere, pretending they are the photographer and the artist. This is nothing, some others may download your images and make prints and post cards, or make derivative arts and sell them in some bazaars or in some city squares in some foreign countries. This is much easier for them to do, if they see no name on the photos. Once you upload your photos online, anyone can download them,THERE ARE NO OTHER PROTECTIONS FOR YOUR PHOTOS OTHER THAN YOUR NAME AND YOUR WATERMARK. PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE IN ANY "IMAGE PROTECTION" ANY SITE MAY OFFER YOU.This is only to make us feel secure,BUT THEY DO NOT STOP THE THIEVES. Iwill soon write an article demonstrating how easily anyone can download the original size of your WHOLE photostream and sets on Flickr with one click, the whole content of a group pool on flickr with one click, a whole gallery on Facebook with one click, or download a photo on Megashot.net. These are ONLY a few examples of most innocent use of your photos: <a href="http://megashot.net/communities/Fashion%20and%20Studio/content/1125" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Verdana;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">http://megashot.net/communities/Fashion%20and%20Studio/content/1125</a> IF YOU ARE CONCERNED,the only way to protect your photos is to put your name and your watermark on them, loud and clear. This is not a 100% guarantee either, but it will probably make a thief move on to the next photo. I will soon write an article showing how best to place your watermark on your photos to be most effective and least intrusive to the aesthetics of your photo. The articles will be published in this new Image Protection community. You may join or upload your watermarked photos to the community if you wish, only photos with more effective matermarks will be accepted. <a href="http://www.megashot.net/communities/Image%20Protection" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Verdana;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">http://www.megashot.net/communities/Image%20Protection</a> How to watermark your photos: Photoshop is the best tool for watermarking your images. There will also be a tutorial on how to watermark in Photoshop and make and use brushes. If you don't have Photoshop, or any other image editing software, the following site will do and it is easy to use the watermarking application offered : <a href="http://www.watermark.ws/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Verdana;background-color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">http://www.watermark.ws/</a> </div>

Wino,

Will you please give me a link to a place where you think photos are "protected" ? I will get the "protected" photo for you in no time.

ALSO, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING. THIS IS A MAILER WE KEEP ON SENDING TO EVERYONE:

PLEASE PUT YOUR NAMES ON YOUR PHOTOS PLEASE, DO NOT UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS WITH NO NAME ON THEM, ON ANY SITE !

Your photos and your artwork, are YOUR copyrighted material and no one else should use them without your permission.Some people are STEALING YOUR PHOTOSand are posting them to their Facebook walls and elsewhere, pretending they are the photographer and the artist. This is nothing, some others may download your images and make prints and post cards, or make derivative arts and sell them in some bazaars or in some city squares in some foreign countries. This is much easier for them to do, if they see no name on the photos.
Once you upload your photos online, anyone can download them,THERE ARE NO OTHER PROTECTIONS FOR YOUR PHOTOS OTHER THAN YOUR NAME AND YOUR WATERMARK. PLEASE DO NOT BELIEVE IN ANY "IMAGE PROTECTION" ANY SITE MAY OFFER YOU.This is only to make us feel secure,BUT THEY DO NOT STOP THE THIEVES. Iwill soon write an article demonstrating how easily anyone can download the original size of your WHOLE photostream and sets on Flickr with one click, the whole content of a group pool on flickr with one click, a whole gallery on Facebook with one click, or download a photo on Megashot.net.
These are ONLY a few examples of most innocent use of your photos:
http://megashot.net/communities/Fashion%20and%20Studio/content/1125

IF YOU ARE CONCERNED,the only way to protect your photos is to put your name and your watermark on them, loud and clear. This is not a 100% guarantee either, but it will probably make a thief move on to the next photo. I will soon write an article showing how best to place your watermark on your photos to be most effective and least intrusive to the aesthetics of your photo. The articles will be published in this new Image Protection community. You may join or upload your watermarked photos to the community if you wish, only photos with more effective matermarks will be accepted.
http://www.megashot.net/communities/Image%20Protection

How to watermark your photos:
Photoshop is the best tool for watermarking your images. There will also be a tutorial on how to watermark in Photoshop and make and use brushes. If you don't have Photoshop, or any other image editing software, the following site will do and it is easy to use the watermarking application offered :
http://www.watermark.ws/

vino Posted 521 Days, 20 Hrs ago

Thanks Cyrus for ur kind reply,

In my opinion if the megashot members needs some photos they can request to the owner , if the photos send to critique page there the megashot members can download, due to this URL link non-members also can download, that's the prob, sure megashot members knows the value of every single photos,

And by the way there are lots of watermark removing software a available in market so not only watermark will stop thrift,

vino Posted 521 Days, 20 Hrs ago

Sorry Cyrus u know more than me, but this is what running in my mind,

Caz if they use over Internet we can find them, if not its used in any other material , it's difficult,

If this puts u on pain kindly excuse me,

Cyrus khamak Posted 520 Days, 18 Hrs ago

NO, mo pain !

Like I said, give me ANY link to ANY "protected" photo and I will give you the photo in no time.
Like i said above, there is really NO "PROTECTION" for your photo, once you have uploaded it online and on any site. What watermark does, it will make it more difficult for people to steel it. It's like the lock on your car steering wheel. A thief who really want your car, he can can cut it. But normally they go to the next car which is not locked.

ALSO, if you care really concerned, you need to spend sometime and give your watermark some thought. Try to remove the watermark from the following photo.

ALSO, please read the piece above again, PLEASE .

vino Posted 520 Days, 20 Hrs ago

Thanku Cyrus for ur kindness, I hav uploaded last few photos some how as u said, but I want to replace the rest, I don no how long it will take, but I hav to do , Thanks once again Cyrus

Dave Dube Posted 430 Days, 4 Hrs ago

Boy Cyrus, we've gone around and around with this one. It really hit home when we had many, many photos taken on Photo.net. I personally had over 20 taken and sold from a Chinese market. Even though the site was taken down, they still had our images.

After that, I tried to place my watermark in harmony with the photo making it part of the photo. My current stance is to not download my best photos, sometimes I post photos that become very popular even though I don't consider them terrific.

Knowing what's possible, I've kind of given up on the protection front. However, you make a great point with your first link - those that are most likely to do this don't have the editing skills to pull it off. They are just plain lazy! If they have the financial resources to purchase the applications needed, they have the money to purchase quality cameras.

Thanks Cyrus for keeping this in the forefront but, even in the best scenario, getting restitution is slim to none.

Dave

Dave Dube Posted 425 Days, 1 Hrs ago

If anyone would like to see first hand what can happen to an image, here is one of mine that's been hijacked and is being used across platforms.

http://www.dailymotion.com/specialstormradio#video=xnbp46

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