salvatori. wrote:
Welcome and best of luck. Not critiquing your photos (but I will say that you are on the right path) but that copyright symbol... wow...

I know your desire to protect your imagery, but there's no way I'm gonna see the pic if that thing just keeps hitting me.

(maybe a little smaller, more to the corner or more transparent?)

Again, best of luck

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salvatori. wrote:
that copyright symbol... wow...

+1000

OP, you've described yourself as a newbie so I feel safe to say that this is a typical 'newbie' mistake.

a) watermarks, especially like this ruin a photo
b) nobody will take you seriously with this all over your photos
c) are you really expecting people to 'steal' your images, and if so what for?

Anything you post on the internet is liable to be stolen/misused etc. Learn to embrace it and do what I do - view images you post online as free sample giveaways intended to get you noticed rather than precious jewels you need to protect at all costs.

I don't watermark my online images at all, and I have a tumblr where I positively encourage people to reblog (some would say 'steal') my work. I pretty much don't care what happens to then as long as they get me noticed.

Sure, put a big watermark on proofs you're sending to clients who you need to sell retouched final images to but honestly, nobody will take you seriously (even here on MM) if you don't remove them from your portfolio images.

Anyway, welcome and good luck!


Just my $0.02

Ciao
Stefano

www.stefanobrunesci.com

-B-R-U-N-E-S-C-I- wrote:
- view images you post online as free sample giveaways intended to get you noticed rather than precious jewels you need to protect at all costs.

Wow! I have thousands of images I never posted because of guarding them like "precious jewels" that I didn't want stolen online.  I probably cost myself a ton of potential work by hoarding them.  Thanks for the perspective shift. :^)

Almost forgot...that giant logo has to gogo.