 Re: Question about Pictures | |
I sell photos on my Aboriginal art site. It was only after I put big sized photo in that I sold any. I think putting small sized in is a waste of time. I have watermarked mine in a pattern that suits. I found that any photo I have used on my site, if they are NOT water-marked I've had dozen of hits to the photo address & up would pop a largest size of the photo you had uploaded; obviously people were sealing them. I haven't watermarked the photo of boomerangs on my home page - lot of hits to the enlargened photos of them - don't get any hits on watermarked photos. Right click dis-anbling is a waste of time if you have large photos because people can screen save & I suppect that can happen with photo-splising. You have to do watermarking properly in a decent program & it is best to design your own because it is harder for people to remove it than some standard program. I've tried several things, but water-marking has worked best for me. True, people can steal anything if they want - but I don't think you will sell anything if you put unprotected photos on a site. That makes as much sense as putting up a sign "Burglars please note no-one is at home here between 8a.m. & 6p.m." I've found the lightbox feature good for photos as people can get a reasonable decent view even with watermarking. Even though you will probably only put lower resolution photos than what you sell - you still have to have a reasonable size one which means reasonable quality. A decent photo program can blow photos up even very low pixel photos to a good size & increase the pixel count considerably. While it is true watermarking can be removed - it's difficult to do so & get the pixel number up. I tried a number of things before I used water-marking, wish I had used it before & as stated previously it is only since I started using it that I've made sales. |