size vs theft?

Now looking to setup my own gallery/website, although I don't claim to have shot anything worth stealing I'm just wondering what people use size/resolution wise to show off their shots in the best way, but small enough making them not worth stealing?

I don't wanna go down the route of plastering a damn great watermark across the middle, so was thinking maybe 1024 width with a 72 dpi? Or would 1280 still be better without making it too much?

Just after peoples thoughts please?

Shelton.

1024px across will make a nice 8x10 print, so if you don't want folks to be able to do that, you need a quite a bit smaller (or a watermark across the photo). The dpi, 72 or otherwise, doesn't matter. Personally I put my portfolio shots up at 440x660px, with no watermark. Nothing goes up larger than that.

Dave

That's quite abit smaller than I thought? I had a play resizing a shot, I suppose I forget I'm running a 1900x1280 desktop which of course makes things a good deal different

I presume though the most common desktop size is still 1024x768?

Shelton.

On my photo site, usage shows the top monitor sizes are 1280x800 (24% of users) then 1024x768 (19% of users). Yeah, the pics will be rather small, but if you print one out you'd be surprised at how good it looks.

Dave

I still have a 1024 x 768 monitor. I use 600 x 400, un-watermarked, in my gallery (for sale). I use 720px, watermaked for posting on the forums.

Many thanks to you both for your input

Shelton.

tracknut wrote in post #10530235
1024px across will make a nice 8x10 print, so if you don't want folks to be able to do that, you need a quite a bit smaller (or a watermark across the photo). The dpi, 72 or otherwise, doesn't matter. Personally I put my portfolio shots up at 440x660px, with no watermark. Nothing goes up larger than that.

Dave

Ah, just big enough to grab for my website usage, thanks!

Take a look at both my websites. My zenfolio has 650 pixels on the long side, all watermarked, and my Photography by Hoy website are 800 pixels wide (for horizontal photos) and all are watermarked.

1024 pixels on the long side would take up someone's entire screen, which means they won't be able to see the entire image (unless your website automatically resizes to show the whole image on the screen). Anything to avoid a viewer scrolling around to see your site is a good thing.

Thanks for your thoughts, some cracking shots there as well

Thats quite a large watermark you use, do you not find it detracts from the shot somewhat?

Shelton.

I would say that if you have web site that with purporse for selling images or attract your possible clients, you will get more income by putting there bigger, quality images, not distracted by any watermarking, than you will loose profit by some images being stolen. If you have small images they are unattractive, look bad, lack details and so, that site will not have lot of visitors and so will not create as much profit as it would with bigger images. The same apply for watermarks over nice images that make them ugly.

Just my opinion, not everyone will agree with it.

Not selling anything for now, nowhere near good enough!! Just wanted somewhere to share a few of what I like best for now, settled on 650 pixels longest side, just trying to decide whether to watermark in a corner or not.....

Shelton.

Not sure if you care, but here's a breakdown that W3Schools did on monitor resolutions back in Jan 2010:

Date - January 2010
1024x768 - 20%
1280x1024 - 18.2 %
1280x800 - 17.3 %
1440x900 - 10.5 %
1680x1050 - 10.0 %
1920x1200 - 4.6 %
1366x768 - 3.6 %
1920x1080 - 2.3 %
1152x864 - 2.1 %
1600x1200 - 1.4 %
1280x768 - 1.2 %
800x600 - 1%
640x480 - 0%
Unknown - 3%

Interesting thanks!

Shelton.

dsd17 wrote in post #10553045
Not sure if you care, but here's a breakdown that W3Schools did on monitor resolutions back in Jan 2010:

Date - January 2010
1024x768 - 20%
1280x1024 - 18.2 %
1280x800 - 17.3 %
1440x900 - 10.5 %
1680x1050 - 10.0 %
1920x1200 - 4.6 %
1366x768 - 3.6 %
1920x1080 - 2.3 %
1152x864 - 2.1 %
1600x1200 - 1.4 %
1280x768 - 1.2 %
800x600 - 1%
640x480 - 0%
Unknown - 3%

Typically these will be a measure of hits on their own site. So if your customer profile is similar to those looking for technical web info, then this could be fairly accurate.

Dave