I sent a message to her :


Ça serait gentil de ne pas voler les photos comme celle que tu utilises en se moment. Je connais la photographe et ça l'a fait chier au plus haut point. Elle travaille très dur et elle essaye de se faire un peu d'argent de ses photos. Je sais bien que peut-être pour toi ça n'a aucune importance, mais pour nous qui essayons de vivre de nos photos (qui est extrèmement difficile en passant) c'est très contrariant.

merci.

Oh got it!! Just sent my first report



J'aimerais que ça reste moi qui s'en charge.
Les termes 'fait chier' no sont pas très professionels ...
Merci pour l'intention

This post was edited by MotherOfTwo on Jun 2 2011 06:37pm

Désolé, mais je me suis VRAIMENT forcé pour être le moins grossier possible.. La première version du texte était... rude

C'est con... je croyais que FB me ferait de l'annonce, mais à la place, ya que du vol
Pis maintenant que ils ont le lien de Flickr, même si je disparais de FB, ils n'ont qu'à downloader de Flickr

Ok... I can finally answer! Yay

Facebook has two options of download: 'high res' and the facebook compressed version.

The facebook compressed version is exactly 72 DPI and 720 pixels at its longest edge. This means that in order to upload the most facebook-friendly photo, you must size the image according to the previous specifications.

72 DPI @ 720 pixels = more than enough to copy/paste and put as your facebook profile. Therefore, we cannot stop copy/pastas. What option, then, do we have left for those thiefs? Only to take advantage of them!

1) Watermarks
Watermarks must serve their purpose: to prevent printing and to include sufficient information so that copy/pasta's will advertise for free for you. This also means that you must come up with a watermark that does not intrude with the purpose of the photo. The best way to do this is to include a CLEAR, EVIDENT watermark that does not intrude with the photo yet is large enough to be seen by every 'friend.'

Here's an example:


You'll notice that the core essence of the photo is untouched. I wouldn't mind keeping the watermark on my facebook profile. Most other photographers will say "OMG YOUR WATERMARK IS TOO MUCH ITS SO HUEG ZOMG ZOMG RAGE RZGZKDJSLAKDJA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!one111!"
Are you fuckin kidding me? This type of watermark I'd keep rather than some ugly ass red letters. It's a sort of branding that looks (to me) elegant, sort of like the value that is added by a gucci or abercorombie logo.
You'll notice in my watermark has my website. Free advertisement

2) To be continued. A beautiful woman needs me

This post was edited by onepagememory on Jun 3 2011 06:39am

I think the best would be a Flash based web site, but I can't afford to pay for a web site atm cause I want to invest in photo gear
You really can't copy a photo on Flash, well, I can't..
So I should just tolerate that everyone goes on my FLickr page and takes the pictures there instead of buying them off me?
I always save my pictures in the lowest resolution but still, some of them have close to 400k, which is good enough for them I suppose..
My logo is right on top of the core of the picture, which I don't mind at all.

You can still RIP photos off from Flash, but its more involved then just right clicking and hitting save. So it'd deter theives atleast.

Sad cause many seems to like my pictures, but only I only made one sale..

Make a stronger watermark next time. I can hardly see it.

Will do

I'll put the logo at the bottom and a big 'Copyright' in the middle