Well I did say I didn't know the next thing about websites! 😉 It was just a thought but wasn't really sure if it would be viable.....
I was wondering how the original poster found out about his pictures being used on facebook though. A while ago I was asked by someone if they could use one of mine, I said no but how do I know he's not using it? If I try to go to his record it tells me I have to be a friend of his to view his profile, so I can't access his pictures....
If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful!
Thanks
Maria
Reply to this The story of how I found out is even creepier than the fact that someone is stealing my life!
Try creating an account under a different name (different photo, scramble some fake personal information together etc,) and add the person as a friend - but I only resorted to being so sneaky when my situation became sinister...
Reply to this Photoshop has a function called digimarc under the filters. It allows you to put an invisible watermark that can be tracked.
Reply to this I was reading this old thread today and wondering how much the technology has improved since this question was asked and answered in 2008. Are their additional things that can be done to protect our photos?
Reply to this Funny I saw this topic, since there's this
news here in the Philippines of a young man who won a photo contest, only for the organizers to find out that the winner stole it from someone else's Flickr account. Worse is, he had been doing that a lot of times already and even won awards.
As for me, I usually edit my pictures a bit (increasing the sharpness, cropping, resizing, reducing the resolution, etc.) before uploading them, and I don't upload them all. That way, if someone "steals" them, I can easily prove my ownership by showing the raw files.
I've never really been a fan of watermarking my pictures. I don't know, I just don't like seeing my name plastered across my images. :D
But you can easily do it using Photoshop or Lightroom. The latter is especially useful if you're post-processing lots of images, since you can batch process them, instead of typing text on individual images.
Reply to this It's still easy to take a copy of a photo if you know what you're doing and watermarking is unfortunately the best defense.
Since 2008 -- I've implemented a simple protection against people casually taking images... try dragging and dropping a photo on TB... works but it only requires a little knowledge to get around it.
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