Copyrighting Pictures the Right Way
I really hate watermarks and most credit lines plastered on an image, because they ruin the visual experience of a viewer.
The right way to copyright your pictures and visual work is to go minimal. Let’s take one of my images, a picture of the PSP working with an HDTV:
Let’s get Kottke’s silkscreen font, which is small but readable:
And use a photo-editing program like GIMP or Photoshop to place the copyright line (make sure to turn off font-smoothing for the desired effect):
There we go. The credit line is still there, but it doesn’t grab attention away from your work.
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2 opinions for Copyrighting Pictures the Right Way
Evan Meagher
Feb 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm
This works, but all one has to do to unwatermark the image is to shave off an 8px strip of the left edge. Still, it’s better than traditional watermarks. I hate those things.
Rico
Feb 25, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I hate them too, so much so that I’m willing to risk the shave off. If your pic is pretty popular anyway, people will probably know who it belongs to.
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