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It's great to be included among such fine talent. Everyone here has produced some outstanding work. Thank you for including me.

Now for a word about my ongoing campaign: Your work is valuable. You worked hard to produce it. You deserve to benefit from your talent and hard labour. Please do not upload high resolution images and place subtle watermarks on the images that you do upload. If you don't, people will steal it, sell it and there is little you can do about it.

OK... we now return you to our regular programming! :-)

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I'll go with this one for number three

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Here is my second choice

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Strange... it seems that solitude is the one thing that I constantly seek, yet always alludes me. One would guess that if solitude was my goal that my photography would reflect that. I had to think pretty hard on the idea before I chose these three images. I hope they work for you. Thanks for getting me to think about this topic again!

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Didn't take it as being directed at me. The truth is, the main benefit I get from posting on Renderosity is the "link juice". Renderosity is one of the few sites that allow you to embed links into the description of your images. So if you go to any of the images in my gallery you will find all the descriptions the same. An apology for the watermark and links to my site. The links are picked up by the search engines and it raises my site rating. The more links from web sites related to my business, the better I fare in the search engines.

Doing great work is only part of the battle. Marketing yourself and your work is equally important. Any artwork is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. My point is, if you don't value your work enough to protect it, then nobody else will value it either.

(Notice the shameles plug attached to this message via the link. Links=search engine juice)

 

• Frederick

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Wayne,

I understand where you are coming from and I am sorry to hear about the theft of your books. The theft of intellectual property has hurt many industries and has bred a culture of "entitlement" that has permeated our society. Many people equate having anything on the net, visual, written, audio or whatever, as being free for the taking. You are quite right that this will result in artists and authors of all sorts simply no longer wanting to produce work.

I run a professional photography studio and do not make my living only from selling my photo art nor do I shoot weddings. Publishing my work on the net here, elsewhere and on my own web site is a necessary evil in order for me to promote my business. But I am not going to make it easy for the work to be taken. Watermarking the image makes it less palatable for those who might want to use it elsewhere, and keeping the resolution low limits its usability in any case. This is not something that could help authors of books, though.

I see a great wealth of talent in these galleries and I know that many of the works took the artists a great deal of time to create. It is so sad to see them post their work at a high res with no watermark for nothing other than an "Awesome image, dude!" comment as payment. But if all artists were to pay attention and not give away their work, then perhaps they would find that prints or other reproductions of it would become more valued.

I have sold many art prints of my work for hundreds of dollars each. One canvas sold for $15,000. I would have sold nothing if I had given the files away.

• My 2 cents.

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Keeping the images small and posting watermark on the images is really the only way. It's unfortunate that it has come to this as many photographers or other visual artists would like to have their work viewed larger without any obscuring details, but that is the way of the world together. I use a ghosted watermark that is fairly large and keep the image to abour 400x600 pixels. I suppose a competent photoshop user could remove the watermark but the image will still be low res. Most people would not want to take the time to do it as there are so many images out there, it would be easier to simply grab something else.