Signature location

[billshack]

Quicky question here.. When you create a copyright signature for your images that will be printed, where do you typically locate the signature. Do you offset it enough so that it will be displayed once a matte and frame are attached or does the customer usually prefer that it is on the edge so that they can cover it up? Thanks.

[billshack]

NOBODY has an opinion on this?? :?

[Citizensmith]

It'd be nice to hear thoughts from people who sell plenty. I don't sell much, but my thing is to stick a business card in the corner of a frame. At the front so anyone can take it. Not sure if it works, not been doing it very long. :)

[sixshot]

I'd like to know this too.

[radar-eclipse]

I don't sell prints, but what I have seen out there is a small and subtle signature in the corner. A lot of prints come with a simple mat already attached. I've also seen a penciled signature on the mat.

[defordphoto]

On the back. I refuse to pollute my photo, and the photo that a customer is paying for with a goofy signature on the photo. The only time I would consider doing that is if the customer desired it. Otherwise, a label goes on the back of the photo.

[O/confusion]

Quicky question here.. When you create a copyright signature for your images that will be printed, where do you typically locate the signature. Do you offset it enough so that it will be displayed once a matte and frame are attached or does the customer usually prefer that it is on the edge so that they can cover it up? Thanks.

I don't know how others handle it, but when I mat and frame my work for sale, or as a gift, I usually sign and date the mat somewhere near the bottom edge of the print--not actually on the print. I ink stamp copyright information on the rear of the print before inserting the backer board, and then I permanently attach a business card to the centre back of the finished article.

regards,
Terry

[billshack]

Thats great.. i like the idea of putting it on the back. Thanks