Please wait...Photograph Watermarks: When, Why, & How to in Lightroom
Written by Gregory Cazillo Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:31
Great question from #Cazillion @dhlighter: Would you recommend that I should put a watermark on my photos that I upload to the internet?
This is an eternal debate by photographers and artists, should I protect my work on the Internet or make them look better without a watermark? My opinion is use both. One with a logo for the photo galleries and website, the other to send images to clients. I use a big obnoxious watermark for client work when they are paying per image or per print. If someone wants an image for Facebook or their Google+ Profile they can use the watermarked image and it will be obvious they didn't pay for the image. Thats fine since I probably wouldn't have sold them anything anyway, mainly in an event photography job.
For website galleries I use my logo in the bottom right corner. It looks good on all images and helps people to recognize my images. That definitely helps when setting up a website too, looks good! I use Lightroom for all of my exporting and this is quite easy to set up, check out the video to see how. BTW, you can see other Adobe Lightroom Tutorials in this video playlist.
What do you think? Should all images have a big watermark on them or not?
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
Comments
I use those sometimes.
I also license all of my photos CC-by-SA (3.0). I don't make any money off of them, but I do enjoy seeing my photos end up in publications and guide books. People always ask for permission.
Great video as usual! I have a question though:
After I have finished editing my images in lightroom, I export them to Jpegs. I then further edit my files (clone stamp for example) in CS5. What is the best way to watermark in this situation? My images are not 'complete' until after the photoshop phases.
Does this bring up another issue/question? I know you predominantly use lightroom, as do I, but if you need to use photoshop, how do you do this? Am I right in saying you can edit in photoshop through lightroom? I'm sure I've seen you do this in an old 'RAW edit' video? If so how?
Thanks Greg, I hope you can find time to answer my question.
Regards
David Stubbs (Mancheter, UK)
www.davidstubbsphotography.com
For Window users, they can also go to Accessories - System Tools - Character Map and copy it from there. Can have a copyright symbol in different fonts too if desired.
FYI, for Mac users, the © symbol can be made by hitting "option" and the "G" key.
RSS feed for comments to this post