What a bummer about this thread.

It's unfortunate but there seems to be little that can be done to prevent images from being stolen. At the least, I make sure to have a small watermark in my images. (Even though it can be Photoshopped out in 5 seconds most of the time). I figure, at least if people are going to share my images online, that people will know where they came from originally. It's worth the effort to embed a watermark for me.

Definitely embed your metadata into every photo you upload online. While this may be useless on Facebook, many other sites allow metadata to be seen. Although, having said that, metadata can very easily be overwritten as well. Metadata is just another mechanism to help protect your work but it's definitely not a necessarily permanent solution either.

Last, I post all of my images online at 72dpi. If people feel motivated enough to steal images, save them, and print them, at least at 72dpi they aren't getting any quality worth having. All of my original files that I use for printing are stored at 300dpi.

At the end of the day, I agree with Trey. It's part of doing business and it sucks, but it's life, unfortunately. You can either accept it and post online and have millions of people (literally), see your work, enjoy it, and share it with the world or be too worried about people stealing your work and never have anyone see your work, ever. It's not an ideal scenario but it's there, regardless.

- Chris

 

Dana is done with TS
and it doesn't matter. My attorney is better.
This the best solution in my book
Download shitty quality.


I like that everyone shares their stuff.
I couldn't for the life of me understand taking credit for someone else's work.
With the exception of Page 1 of this thread. I stole em......but in my defense they were taken for me