Protect your pictures!!

[Superior Shine]

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Yet another. Thanks to MOL member "fredcandetail" for the heads up.

[MELLOWYELLOW06]

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Thats just not cool.

My cars all over ebay and I dont even know the companies

[Superior Shine]

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and more.............. man they do love that pic I took of the lambos we detailed.

[roushstage2]

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Seeing as this keeps getting bumped with more "thefts," why not invest in a copyrighting program or do it yourself? I mean, as much as it seems to aggravate you, there still isn't any copyright info on any of the pictures? Make the pictures on your website non-clickable (in the sense you can't right click and save)? I know there are ways around it, but it'll at least "keep an honest man honest." Some of these "clever" people that have to rely on other's pictures for their business may not be able to figure that out anyways...

I don't mean to come across as "mean" or insensitive or what have you by saying this, but it just seems like you are doing more work following people around with emails and such than you would if you just took a few preventative steps before publishing the pictures.

This is like intentionally not locking your car doors, and then complaining every week that your belongings keep getting stolen out of the car...

[Superior Shine]

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I hear ya...

I never have searched other web-sites for pics. All the ones I have post were sent to me by online friends.

My hope by posting them online as thieves is to shame them in taking down the pics. Most do once they find out.

I have tried to do the right click disable thing but never figured it out. My plan is do create a "wannabe" page on my web-site and post all of them there.

[TKDDAD]

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Yet another. Thanks to MOL member "fredcandetail" for the heads up.

Not for nothin', that's a nasty looking site...but that's beside the point...

Have you thought about a WATERMARK right in the middle of the picture which is almost impossible to remove if you steal the picture off your site ??...Lots of companies who sell clipart/stock photos online put watermarks on them so you can't just take them and use them....Joe, I see that you have a Copyright footer on your website...I would make that more prominent and update it to the current year...if your website content is copyright protected, you should have some ground to stand on with these knuckleheads...

[roushstage2]

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Here's a website I found with a quick Google search. Might be worth a shot. It's got copy and paste code:

http://www.hypergurl.com/norightclick.html

I think a batch watermarking program would be best. Type in what you want to be the watermark (i.e.- © [Enter Year] Superior Shine), select a folder and the program will do the rest.

[tapp1]

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Maybe this tool will help.

http://picmarkr.com/

[roushstage2]

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I just downloaded and tried this program. Works fairly decent for being free. You can watermark/copyright up to 50 pictures at a time with the free version. You can adjust text opacity to your fitting, add a logo or lines and change text size, color, position and so on.

http://www.easysector.com/

[TKDDAD]

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I just downloaded and tried this program. Works fairly decent for being free. You can watermark/copyright up to 50 pictures at a time with the free version. You can adjust text opacity to your fitting, add a logo or lines and change text size, color, position and so on.

http://www.easysector.com/

EXACTLY !!!...That's the ticket Joe !!!....I'd use that immediately on all your pics...or at least the ones you don't want used without your permission...

[roushstage2]

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There are others too that allow you to rotate the text and so on. I've got a template somewhere for Photoshop I made. I just resize the picture after editing, apply the template and done.

The real deal is Digimarc.

[Superior Shine]

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It appears most of the pictures are taken from forums like this one. I'll learn to watermark. Thanks fellas.

[roushstage2]

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That's the nice thing about a batch program. You can put all of your edited pictures into one folder, and apply the same watermark to all of the pictures in that folder at the same time; not one by one. Then you just upload and host as normal.

[hacker-pschorr]

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I've used Russell Brown's "Watermark Brand Action" guide to make my own in Photoshop.

The "how-to" is here: http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

About 3/4 down the page, look for "Digital Watermark Branding"

You can see the watermark's I created on these photo pages of my friends Porsche 928 Twin Turbo project:

http://www.erik27.com/todd/turbo/index.htm

[Greg Nichols]

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Yes I sent him an email as well as Greg said he did.

I'm glad he did, that **** pisses me off. I don't even post work anymore without watermarking it, yes a good photoshoper can remove them, but make them work for it.............its your brand!

Cheers,
GREG