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July 21, 2007
Watermarking
Like everyone else, I'm sometimes in too much of a hurry to post my photos here on the blog or to flickr. If its something that I really like, something I want to share with other people, then I'll skip things like rating the rest of the photos from an import, resizing things correctly or adding watermarks.
Well, it turns out there's a reason you shouldn't skip parts of the workflow. The past few weeks, I've been noticing quite a few of my photos showing up elsewhere on the web... like here, here and here.
Now I'm not particularly worried if people want to use my images on their sites. In fact, I think its kinda flattering. But if you are going to use a picture from somebody's personal site, its always a good idea to ask if its ok first, or to add a link to the photographer's website. At least the people above linked back to my site. There must be dozens of sites out there which don't, and which I'll probably never know about.
For photographers, this illustrates the importance of watermarking and copyright notices. No matter how much you want to upload that photo NOW, its better to be patient and add watermarks to your images. Otherwise you never know just where your photos will turn up!
Posted by Marcus at July 21, 2007 9:22 AM
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