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Originally Posted by Rob Barron
I entirely understand your purpose in putting the copyright info on Martin, entirely so. I am just not sure that the way you are doing it is offering a whole lot of protection. The (c) superimposed as a watermark does not attribute it to yourself and the line that puts your own name, etc. is easily cropped from the bottom of the picture so would not help.
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Sure, they can crop my name right out, but the watermark itself requires a fair bit of editing work to remove. There's also a host of hidden data embedded in the image that identifies it as mine
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Originally Posted by Rob Barron
I rely on the fact that my pic is small (you might notice I never put my pics on here so that they take up the full screen but keep them to about 20-22cms wide) and low res as well as compressed and at 72 dpi and only 8 inches across, the equivalent image printed at 300 dpi would only be 2 inches wide and therefore almost useless for practical usage.
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All you need to make a visually acceptable 6x4" print is an image around 432 x 288 pixels; it won't be sharp or yield a lot of detail but it'd be more than good enough for casual placement on a wall, in an album etc. Anything larger than that simply yields sharper results and/or could be printed bigger. The dpi setting that you've saved it at has
no bearing on output, since it is the absolute number of pixels that is determining factor.
The only 100% proof positive way of preventing someone from nicking your shots is not to share them online... but what would be the point in that??