So glad you posted this. Thanks

What ???????  Dave8's images filth ?  Never seen on that was not in good taste.  Who died and made this Richard guy God ?   Will miss your images Dave.  They are so well done and I looked forward to seeing them. 

The only way that an embedded copyright or other form of copyright is going to work is if you plan to sue the person who has stolen.   I workded for many years as a graphic designer in an ad agency in San Franisco and we had someone steal the " Mock Up " that we did in our proposal to them. We found it in a magazine, and were able to sue.  I dont know if it works differently or not for work done for a person that is stolen or not.........But I do know that the only difference that copyrights or watermarks make is in a court of law.  I just yesterday found an image on there by Donakuka that was dedicated to me.  I saw no mention of her name as the artist, altho the Title included my Rosity name.   I decided to save the file to my hard drive so I could check it on rosity and I found that the name of the .jpg included the Title and DonaKuka's name as the artist.  Confusing at best......

Well I just found out about my image " Grief " ( for my husband ).  Besides the annoyance I am really stunned that someone would steal an image that I dedicated to my husband who was ill at the time.  That is remorselessly tacky in my opinion.  I feel badly for all the artists who have had work stolen.  Some of them , like RGUS and Rayburg have had so many stolen it boggles the mind. 

Well,

I dont know about other people, but I am quite unhappy with the gallery changes.  I find it to be very confusing to navigate this site.  I  dont like the smaller Image size with the zoom option because people wont use it.  The quality of images of others that I have gone back and looked at is pretty degraded unless you Zoom in.  As a graphic designer I am saddened by these changes.  The Galleries used to create a nice community feeling, but now it doesnt ...with the viewers comments off to the side and the poster's comments off to the side too.  I think Renderosity is going to lose alot of people with this change.  I dont know why you decided to change it so radically, and make it much less user friendly but you might want to re-consider some of the changes.  I have never really liked the voting system all that much, but now " The Most Rated " category, which I assume takes the place of the Hot 20 is going to leave alot of great artists who are less viewed in the dust.  Personally this place I used to call " Home away from Home " is a visual nightmare for me and it doesnt feel like home anymore.  It is designed in such a way as to be alienating. Oddly I have no desire to view peoples images with this gallery format.  The page is too cluttered and the image to small for my visual comfort.  I am sorry to say this.  I am trying to figure out why these changes were chosen as they certainly are not in the best interest of the artists.  Hopefully you will reconsider some of the changes and find a way to make this site a community the way it was before.   I am saddened and very disappointed.  Best of luck

BBarbs