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 Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:30 am
I've had this discussion before but I'm having doubts considering whether or not to display my work on a website.
I thought it would be interesting to use this thread to discuss different websites, and maybe for you to tell us where you display your work and let people look at it.
I want to put some of my photography on the internet, but I really don't want people to able to save it to their computer..even if it's just to use as a wallpaper or something..it's my work and I don't like other people "having" it. the only way I could get around this is to watermark al my photos, which takes time and spoils the image. I don't know whether it's worth it.
What are the best sites for sharing art? specifically photos. I don't want to use a sit like Flikr because that's more for people to share their everyday image...it's more like facebook than an art site, lie deviantart. I want to share my photos as an art, not just snapshots.
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:54 pm
Yeah, this conversation does seem familiar. lol.
Hmmm... I use deviantART and Minitokyo, but MT is strictly an anime site. DeviantART is more versatile as far as what's allowed, but it's also quite easy to save an image from there to your computer. Let's face it, though, Shadow. Anyone who can work the Print Screen key and an image editing program can hijack your picture if they wanted to. I will fully admit that I've done that a couple times myself. I don't redistribute (I keep a rather large personal gallery on my harddrive, that is to say), but I won't speak for anyone else who might happen upon your picture.
The others might know more about other sites, but those two are the ones I use.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:52 am
The only way I can see to get around it is to slap a huge watermark across my image, which although it may be translucent, spoils the image somewhat. Someone could still sit or hours on photoshop getting rid of it, but I think it would only be a very small amount of people who would actually want to try that..and it would never be the same as the original image.
It's just that I like sharing my work, I like feedback and I'd like other people to see because you never know what sort of advertisement I could get. I don't want to sell my images..yet..but I would like to display them somewhere..I just don't know where..
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:25 pm
there is a way to get around the whole saving image thing but it will require a lot of work on your part. basically what i'm suggesting is that you make your own website and put your art work on there the post the link to your site everywhere so people will know about it. why? because there's a certain code that disallows the right click button, which will make sure that people won't be saving the images cause they can't right click on anything.
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:29 am
Even though they can't right click, you can still use the print screen button, so it's still fairly easy to steal work sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:36 pm
Yep. *cough* I'm an admitted image pirate in that sense. *coughcough* Not like I'm going to use the image for profit, though. Usually just for my own enjoyment.
If you can find a way to do it, I've seen artists weave their signature into a part of the picture so that it's more difficult to get rid of it. I tried to do something like that with a couple of my pictures, like the Halloween kitty I did. But I imagine that would be much more difficult to do with photography. sweatdrop A watermark, despite the aesthetic discrepancy, would be the way to go.
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:28 am
I use it to when I'm saving photographer's work to put in my journals at university...but I don't like saving other people's work is they aren't famous or anything.
I think I would have to watermark them, and it would have to stretch across the image too so that no-one can just cut it off...that's the only way I can protect my images I think. I just can't be bothered doing that on ALL my photos just to put them on a website.. sweatdrop
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