I don’t watermark photos. That’s because the photos that I sell are always printed on canvas anyway and I never give out the high resolution files so it’s really not a big deal for me if people grab my shots and post them all over the place. I’d love a linkback but if that’s not given, well, welcome to the Internet. So unless photography is your bread and butter I don’t see the need for you to batch watermark everything. Here’s a work-around solution to watermarking photos.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
I think this is actually makes more sense than having a huge www.mywebsite.com at 50% opacity in the middle of your photo. It’s informative and you can even get creative with the use of empty space in your shots. I prefer doing text because I can’t draw but if I did, I’d doodle on them (<--- that cooking blog is amazing). What do you think?
5 replies on “My Solution to Watermarks”
I don’t watermark my photos either. There is nothing more annoying than a blogger’s ordinary or blurry photo with a huge watermark to make it even uglier.
I see what you did there.
I’ve resorted to watermarking because I don’t want scrapers taking my whole blog posts and posting them as their own, particularly if I worked hard to get those photos and that special/breaking news item.
I agree, I recently replied with this to a watermark fan: http://yfrog.com/h68c5aaj
Of course watermarking works, nobody will look at your pics anymore either.
same sentiments as Noelle 🙂