Thursday, 29 September 2011

Watermarking

I saw a comment on a photo shared within a Facebook group the other day asking why the artist's watermark had been removed from the image and someone responds saying that watermarks are useless and if you don't want others to use your graphics then don't upload them because this is the internet. 
As Everything Louder is a website that marks all the images uploaded, you can be sure that I have an opinion on this. 
I don't mind people using the graphics or even sharing them on sites like Facebook as long as the watermark stays intact. That watermark is not only a way of advertising the site but it's a way of ensuring that the credit for the artwork doesn't go to someone who doesn't deserve it. I'm not to fussed over the credit on screencaps (although I welcome it) but to deliberately go and edit out a watermark on an artistic image that someone else has spent time and effort on is wrong. I can see why people like Getty Images place their watermarks right in the centre of the images if that is the way some people think and it's making me rethink the placement of Everything Louder's credit on desktops.

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