Making photographs copyright only

[Janet]

If I wanted to include some photographs into anything written for the internet how do I make the photograph copyright only?

Janet

[Elaine ..Spain]

Most image handling programs allow you to add a watermark to a photo - so you could add a "copyright " watermark across them.

Picassa is one such program - http://support.google.com/picasa/bin...&answer=106193

[Jill on the A272]

That won't stop people copying them though and it will be up to you to pursue them through the courts.

[Janet]

Thank you! I have no wish to pursue anybody through the courts! I thought there might have been a simple way of encrypting the photo so that it could not be lifted from the internet. I have found some pictures difficult to copy from the internet and wondered how it was done.

I do have Photoshop Elements 8 but could not find a way of encrypting. I did mange to insert a text box on the photo but was then not able to write in the text box!

I will have a look at the software from Picassa.

Janet

[Darksecretz]

Janet,

there should be plenty of tutorials out there for Elements 8 and 'watermarking' is what they call it, where you add the copyright symbol.

[Elaine ..Spain]

You do find images that do not have a "right click/save" option but of course there is no way of stopping someone doing a screenshot and copying the image that way.

[Janet]

Thanks as always for your sound advice.

Elaine,

I never thought of that one!

Julie

I will have another look at the Elements 8 software. I was trying to do it in a hurry but that does not always work!! At least I now know it is called Watermarking. You learn something new every day on here.

Janet

[Jill on the A272]

I have a public tree on Ancestry and crop photos to a small portrait so that others can help themselves to a little something without the full photo. Would this work for you?

[Janet]

Jill

That sounds an excellent idea, but how do you manage that?

Janet

[Jill on the A272]

I make a jpeg copy of my original scan then open it in Microsoft Picture Manager crop it, save, and upload the cropped version.

[Janet]

Jill,

Thank you Jill. I will try that. Something else hopefully mastered!!

Janet

[colin taylor]

I have seen some phtographs on a tree in Ancestry that look fine but if you try to copy them they pixilate and are worthless.. this may be the system that Jill has used... I had permission from the site owner but maybe he did not know it would not work

[Janet]

Colin

Thank you. Yes that would be the way to go as I have noticed myself when messing around with my own pictures, if you go too far they do pixilate. Interesting because although I knew this I did not think to apply it to photographs on the internet! Ah well, this site keeps the old brain cells ticking

Janet

[margaretmarch]

I have seen some phtographs on a tree in Ancestry that look fine but if you try to copy them they pixilate and are worthless.. this may be the system that Jill has used... I had permission from the site owner but maybe he did not know it would not work

I have seen some on a tree on ancestry where I have tried to add them to my tree and get told they are private and need permission to copy so there must be a setting on there that allows you to block anyone without permission to copy your photos.

Margaret

[keldon]

I have seen some on a tree on ancestry where I have tried to add them to my tree and get told they are private and need permission to copy so there must be a setting on there that allows you to block anyone without permission to copy your photos.

Margaret

Not really effective. Simple way around any such blocking is to press 'print screen' on your keyboard, open up paintshop or similar and paste from the clipboard. Then crop the image so that it's just the photo.

One way to watermark is to open another layer, type your text in white right across the image. Then make the layer 30% or so visible. Then merge the two layers. Save the file in a different name!

[Janet]

Phyll,

Thank you. I will have to play around with a that suggestion.

Janet