Watermarking photos

I would like to know a easy way to put watermark or logo on the corner of my photos. Can someone suggest a method or a softwre?

One of my best friend was getting married last Saturday, so I brought my camera and took some photos. Afterward, I selected the better photos and put them in my website. My intension was for the newly wed and other guests to view the pictures. Last night, I found one of the guest had download my photos and posted them on his flckr along with his photos. To make me more pissed, I used SimpleViewer with the "right click to save" option disable, so there is NOT an easy way to download my photos. I guessed he must have viewed my photos, then went into the "temporary internet file" folder and copy them.

Now, I really dont mind if all he did is downloading the photos. After all they are all resized to 800x600 for web viewing, but to have my photos reposted as if he took them makes me very unhappy. I don't want to sound like an a*s, but do I have the right to be upset? How should I prevented this in the future? I was thinking 1) resize to smaller size for web viewing 2) added water marking. Is there other suggestons?

eel

http://av.adobe.com/ru​ssellbrown/BrandingSM.​mov

is a good option, but requires some work upfront.

Tom

I'm not sure a watermark will work either, unless you put the mark right through the middle of the photo anyone can simply crop it off.

Maybe a visit with a baseball bat might sort them out!

TJ

any kinda of watermarking can be overcome by anyone with enough determination. Basically you are looking for some sort of, gagchoughchoke, DRM method for your images. Short of something called digital watermarking all other sorts can be worked around using PS or other tools. And even the digital signing of your works can also be overcome.

The idea is to simply make it too much work to overcome your marking. The most effective way I have found is to put a watermark in some location which does not detract from the picture yet will require significant work to eliminate via cloning and such...but really it is just to make me feel better. And I know nothing I add makes the image truly protected.

BTW, last time I looked at it digital watermarking (also called digital signing) is very expensive. Basically it involves embedding some form of ID in the image data that is extremely difficult to detect the pattern and completely invisible to the human eye.

But if you are serious here is a nice summary in the Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.or​g/wiki/Digital_waterma​rking

While the Wiki should always be questioned, this time the article is pretty on the mark.

ps: the right click blocking thing is laughable as a "protection" option. All one needs do is view the HTML and get the image URL and viola they have a copy. So really don't waste your time with that option.

eelnoraa wrote in post #5715994
do I have the right to be upset?

Yes.
This is why all of my images get watermarked... It's not the be-all end-all, but it helps.

brecklundin wrote in post #5716600
ps: the right click blocking thing is laughable as a "protection" option. All one needs do is view the HTML and get the image URL and viola they have a copy. So really don't waste your time with that option.

It's even easier than that with firefox as it has an option to not allow webpages to disable right clicking.

As for protecting images, one of the best ways is to use flash instead of just linking to images and using web page encryption to prevent people from seeing the source code.