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Diary of a Maine-iac Painter
The Artwork of Brian Kliewer
by Brian Kliewer on 3/18/2012 8:33:38 AM
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Just in case you've been wondering what's been going on with my site, I'm beta testing Image Attributions, Copyright Notices and Watermarking for www.FASO.com. Some of the attribution lines you see are quite long. Eventually they will all look like what you see on this image. This will be my permanent attribution line. You might also see some large watermarks across the center of my images. These will only be temporary during the test period.
FASO is just testing this feature for now. I volunteered to test it for them because I finally reached the point of seeing this as a necessity. With sites like Pinterest and Tumblr gaining popularity, it has come to this point in my opinion.
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4 Responses to Beta Testing Image Attributions and Watermarking for FASO
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The copyright notice at the bottom of your photo is very unobtrusive and makes its point clearly. I wonder what Alyson would say about that. . .
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I'm only testing watermarks for FASO. I don't intend to leave them on, only the attribution. I don't like watermarks, either. But, with the way things are going on the Internet, the viewer may very well have to be insulted. I'll go kicking and screaming before I reach that point. I hope I don't have to go that far. However, Tumblr, Pinterest and the like are tantamount to Napster for online images, or close to it. I can't blame any photographers for feeling the need to watermark their images if they do. I do read the Art Biz Blog and Alyson really pushes Social Media (Facebook and Twitter), neither of which I like or care to use for marketing. ;-)
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I include them on my work now as well. I've been meaning to do it for a long time.
When I'm online - I expect to see this on all images. I come from the commercial photography arena and copyright is something to take pretty seriously.
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© Brian Kliewer messages in the center of each image, that cut right through the middle. They can be opaque or sort of transparent and can be any size you want them, fairly large even.
The small copyright/attribution you see here in the lower left corner is what I intend to keep.