I believe that when you post an image online you are doing so with the knowledge that people WILL steal it and use it for whatever they want, the internet is still the wild west in a lot of respects. Do I use watermarks because of this? Yes, but not because I'm paranoid about someone stealing my 700px wide 72ppi low res photo. The number one reason people use watermarks is because of rampant image theft on the internet. I understand where they are coming from, but I'd like you all to take a look at watermarks from a different perspective. Now, a lot of people find watermarks obnoxious and distracting and aren't afraid to share that opinion with me. to funnel people to my website, which is where I do business. Facebook, G+, Twitter, 500px, flickr, ect. I'm writing this from a business point of view and in todays world social networks are one of the biggest tools we have to reach our customers. It's sort of a natural progression from what some would say are overly watermarked photos, to not marked at all, and that's exactly how I want it. On my personal website I don't use any type of watermark whatsoever. On photo sharing sites I use a small watermark that usually says something like "©date" On the larger social networking sites like Facebook and now Google+ I add a second more obtrusive mark on the center. I for one, do use watermarks on a site by site basis. (see above for a ridiculously over-egaggerated example) For those of you who don't know, a watermark is any kind of "stamp" you put on your photo to let people know that photo is yours.
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