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Well, i never really looked at my webstats for my sites regularily, but my one site had a huge bandwidth overage, so i had to investigate. Found out that those stupid idiots on myspace.com were hotlinking one of my images, "blood drip." And almost all the people who were using the image were vampire goth dudes and gals. Very interesting stuff . . .
Anyways, i simply took the photo, put a nice message across it, so now when they hotlink it . . .
You can use the image however you like (the small one on the menu doesn't have the text) Actually, anyone can use the image - just not hotlink it . . .
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Yeah, i got bombarded with nasty emails after i added the watermark. Apparently, tens of people had the image hotlinked as a background photo etc..., so they weren't too happy to see the watermark. Damn teenagers.
wrote ...
/me rubber-stamps out... j/k
As i said before, i don't have a problem with people using the image, even without my permission. I just have a problem with them hotlinking it and sucking my bandwidth.
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Ha ha ha, lol I always get a chuckle with this one.
A better watermark overlaps the important areas of the image and is subtler.
1.) Create a Macro in Photoshop or Script-Fu in Gimpshop (Free) 2.) Create/import an overlay with white letters 3.) Set Overlay to a ghostly opacity (~30%) 4.) Merge down layers 5.) Resize image to 72 ppi with rescale at 100% (low-resolution web format) 6.) Save a copy as jpg (leaves your source images untouched) 7.) Close open image 8.) Repeat until no more open images
The other power of Photoshop is batch mode that can fully automate large image base processing. I believe there are a few editors around too that can do this –but have not tried it with Gimpshop yet.
When done run JPGCleaner (free) to strip out the Photoshop tags from the JPGs.
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You got angry emails from people because you changed your intellectual property as you saw fit?
These must be the same people that complain when they illegally download a DVD/movie rip and someone plugs their website at the beginning of the movie file.
It would be amusing to see these emails and how they attempted to justify their anger. You should replace it with an offensive XXX image rather than a watermark. That'd really get them angry. Maybe they'd go write some depressing poetry and stay off the Internet.
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