J.T.
Feb-15-2008, 09:49 PM
In last months Popular Photography mag there was a small article that talked about how easy it is to steal an image off the web and remove the watermark.
As a pro user I have watermarked images, right click protection on and largest viewing size is large for all images.
If you can take a screen shot of an image in large view, save it as a jpeg, convert to a tiff, then re-save as a jpeg again, you can apparently remove the watermark. Mind you, the image quality may not be good, but in a technical aspect, is this really possible?
Or does the watermark feature that smugmug uses on our images displayed not able to be removed maliciously this way. I don't want to give any "dishonest web browsing picture stealer my space using thief :D" any ideas from this post, but I just wanted a bit of insight on this issue.
Thanks.
As a pro user I have watermarked images, right click protection on and largest viewing size is large for all images.
If you can take a screen shot of an image in large view, save it as a jpeg, convert to a tiff, then re-save as a jpeg again, you can apparently remove the watermark. Mind you, the image quality may not be good, but in a technical aspect, is this really possible?
Or does the watermark feature that smugmug uses on our images displayed not able to be removed maliciously this way. I don't want to give any "dishonest web browsing picture stealer my space using thief :D" any ideas from this post, but I just wanted a bit of insight on this issue.
Thanks.