My goodness! I thought there was a glitch in MY IE... until I found this post. I went and voted... to keep the old way.. Many know my feelings on illegal use of models, and I feel the same way about art. It is sickening to see a Michael Whalen Dragon image posted without permission, etc.. BUT I do a save as for images of good friends who are wonderful artists, JUST to put on my desktop to enjoy every time I sit here... AND it is a very convenient way to save an image I DO have permission for, to add to our own store gallery, instead of jamming up my mail box with jpg attachments from those artist who make submissions to our gallery. 7 years ago, as an artist, I had to come face to face with the reality of posting my art in public. It WILL be stolen. So I did three things - I came to the state of mind to accept this rather than not to post my art, and 2) I make my images the default 72 dpi.. then people would get a really messy thing by trying to enlarge and/or print anything they could use to sell and 3) I have a note on my own web site to just ASK, and found that the majority of the folks do ask..then I say yes, thanking them for asking! This way I do have some sort of way of keeping track of where they are. In this age of fancy stationery programs the theft of art and bits of an image is really getting out of hand... but again, posting publicly I have to accept this. I do not water mark (my art is not THAT good) anyway. I am sure that someone doing art commercially would not post a high res final image on the web.. those that sell art and photographs usually post low res, small size images. Well that's my 3 cents worth.

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