Canon DSLR Speed Challenge #217: FLIGHT

jetcode wrote in post #13479545
Protect them with Digimarc electronic watermarking. Not that I've had images stolen but I use Digimarc and images are traceable through Digimarc. You will have a hard time detecting or removing a Digimarc watermark because it is nearly invisible and spread over a large portion of the image.

https://www.digimarc.c​om/

Here is an image protected by Digimarc. The watermark can be read in CS5.
https://photography-on-the.net …p=13452275&post​count=1889

Thanks, That Digimarc system looks pretty good. Can you tell every time someone right-clicks and copies one of your images? Does the watermark stay with the image if someone does a screen print? If a hardcopy is made from your image and then scanned back to digital, is the watermark still embedded?

GarryKirsch wrote in post #13479816
Thanks, That Digimarc system looks pretty good. Can you tell every time someone right-clicks and copies one of your images? Does the watermark stay with the image if someone does a screen print? If a hardcopy is made from your image and then scanned back to digital, is the watermark still embedded?

Good questions and I'm definitely interested also.

Congrats to Ingerson.... (glad I sent you that PM )!!!

Garry thanks for the hosting duties this week. There were so many great entries I would not have been able to pick just one winner.I do not shoot birds as I do not have the patience for it. But I happened to be in my old stomping grounds of Huntington Beach at the Bolsa Chica Wildlife Sanctuary and caught this egret flying very close to me. Just got lucky

airfrogusmc wrote in post #13479891
Good questions and I'm definitely interested also.

No one can track when someone lifts your image online. If there is a way to copy an image anyone can copy the image. What Digimarc does is it provides a nearly invisible watermark and internet robots that look for Digimarc watermarked images on the global internet 24/7. Digimarc users can track their images that appear on the internet with Digimarc user reports online.

Garry the watermark is a part of the image. It can't be removed easily nor detected in most cases except by Digimarc algorithms for reading the watermark. For printing you should not watermark your image. You can watermark any image regardless of size or file format.

jetcode wrote in post #13479981
No one can track when someone lifts your image online. If there is a way to copy an image anyone can copy the image. What Digimarc does is it provides a nearly invisible watermark and internet robots that look for Digimarc watermarked images on the global internet 24/7. Digimarc users can track their images that appear on the internet with Digimarc user reports online.

Garry the watermark is a part of the image. It can't be removed easily nor detected in most cases.

Sounds like the best solution right now for anyone who's concerned about unauthorized use of their images. Thanks for the tip!

jetcode wrote in post #13479981
No one can track when someone lifts your image online. If there is a way to copy an image anyone can copy the image. What Digimarc does is it provides a nearly invisible watermark and internet robots that look for Digimarc watermarked images on the global internet 24/7. Digimarc users can track their images that appear on the internet with Digimarc user reports online.

Garry the watermark is a part of the image. It can't be removed easily nor detected in most cases except by Digimarc algorithms for reading the watermark. For printing you should not watermark your image. You can watermark any image regardless of size or file format.

Thats the answer I was looking for Joe. Thanks. I might look into this. After the fact is OK because I would not hesitate to go after any offender.

airfrogusmc wrote in post #13480117
Thats the answer I was looking for Joe. Thanks. I might look into this. After the fact is OK because I would not hesitate to go after any offender.

$99 a year for 2000 images I believe.

jetcode wrote in post #13480167
$99 a year for 2000 images I believe.

Not a bad investment. Then it would be finding the time to get onto all the files that need it. I mean with all the time I seem to spend here and work theres not a lot of free time

Everything I have up is protected. You pull the .jpg into CS5 goto to filter digimarc write, a dialog pops up the first time asking for year, enter, done, save. I have it as part of an action script. All my images on POTN are watermarked.

I am still working to get an image worth protecting.