Archive for the ‘Graphics’ Category

How to stop oth­ers from steal­ing your photographs

It is dis­con­cert­ing to open a stranger’s web page and come face to face with your own pho­tographs. It is even worse to see your work being sold by some­one else. There is no fool­proof way to pre­vent a deter­mined thief from copy­ing your pho­tographs from the web. How­ever, if you are a grand­par­ent who wants to share the grand kids’ pic­tures with friends and rel­a­tives, with­out spend­ing a for­tune, there are a few things you can do to pre­vent oth­ers from sell­ing your work.

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What is a Megapixel (MP) Anyway?

We have a great cam­era; a Nikon D90 DSLR just chock full of  megapix­els. For each of those invis­i­ble megapix­els, we have a mil­lion invis­i­ble pix­els. I would rather not see a pixel. See­ing pix­els in Pho­to­shop gen­er­ally means I’m attempt­ing to use too low a res­o­lu­tion graphic at too large a size. Images are made up of tiny dots (pix­els). Vis­i­ble pix­els are yucky! They make my graph­ics ugly.

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We hear this ques­tion from our clients often. The answer is almost always NO!

You can­not down­load and use pho­tos from the inter­net unless the site specif­i­cally states that you may down­load pho­tos and spec­i­fies the exact con­di­tions under which you can use them. For instance, you may be given per­mis­sion to use a photo for per­sonal use. Plac­ing that photo on a com­mer­cial site vio­lates copy­right code.

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