Using a watermark on photos that you plan to email or display on your website will help identify them as yours. It also discourages people from copying them or claiming them as their own. Here’s a simple and easy way to add an editable text watermark in Adobe® Photoshop®.
To Add a Watermark in PhotoshopOpen the [...]
You can deter someone from copying or using your photos as their own by embedding your images in an SWF file. This prevents them from dragging or copying the image from the browser window. Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, and The Gimp are several photo-editing applications that you can use to get the [...]
You can reduce the size of your image and change its resolution to prevent someone from printing and using it as a high-quality photo. Resolution refers to the number of dots or pixels that are in one inch.Dots per inch (dpi)
Measures the print quality and needs to be around 200-300 or higher for an [...]
When you exchange photos on the Internet, you can embed a transparent GIF over your photos using a style sheet. When someone right-clicks on the image to save it, they get a transparent GIF rather than your photo. Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, and The Gimp are several photo-editing applications that you can [...]
You can embed your copyright information into your photos to deter people from printing or using your photos as their own. When someone moves their cursor over your photo, your copyright message displays.
See Create a Copyright Image Overlay for your Photos
If you send photos using the Internet, it is possible for someone to steal them and print or use them elsewhere. You can take measures to protect your photos, but there is no completely secure method for stopping determined thieves. The problem is that there are many ways that your images can be stolen and [...]