PainShop Pro Graphics - Summer photo

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Summer photo

Gail

2005-10-07, 3:20 am

Thank you for taking the time to give me all that information. I appreciate
it. You are very well informed. Are you a professional artist and or
photographer?
Gail 2
"Spandex Rutabaga" <SpRu@agabatur.xednaps> wrote in message
news:4345E46E.FB9382B2@agabatur.xednaps...
> Gail wrote:
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> There are two kinds of watermarks. The first kind is a secret one
> buried inside the image data, which can contain a short message such
> as your name, or perhaps some information about the image or a web
> link. This information is embedded in the image using steganography
> (a fancy name for secret writing). See Image > Watermarking in PSP.
> The second kind of watermark is a visible on that places your name on
> an image along perhaps with a copyright symbol. The name watermarking
> is used because the lettering is often semi-transparent like a real
> watermark on paper, being sufficiently opaque to be seen but not
> completely opaque allowing the image to still be seen through it.
>
> The first kind of watermark usually requires you to pay for the service.
> There is however public domain software for this. The problem with this
> type of secret watermark is how resistant it is to various image
> transformations. The more resistant you make it the more it adds what
> appears to be noise to the image, which is undesirable. Also people
> who know what they are doing and have access to adaptive filters can
> destroy the watermark without destroying the image. Professionals may
> find this type of watermark to be worth the expense and the search for
> stolen images can be reduced to a simpler search for specific text
> within a watermark that is done with a web crawler.
>
> I don't know what visible watermarks are really for. You don't need to
> label images or other original creative works you made with your name
> to establish your legal rights to them. Labels don't mean much anyway
> since anyone can add a label to another person's image. People
> watermarking PSP dialogs is a classic, the dialogs being copyrighted
> by Corel despite the watermarks :-) Labels don't help you find people
> who steal your pictures. Moreover people armed with a clone tool or an
> object remover tool can get rid of labels.
>
> Enforcing your copyright takes a lot of hard detective work and
> potentially much legal expense. It is better to keep a signed logbook
> of when you created what images and to post only crops from such
> documented originals so that you can later show that a stolen image was
> a crop from a documented original in your possession. Visible watermarks
> are however a good way of indicating to law-abiding people who took the
> picture and maybe some camera settings too.

Nightingail

2005-10-07, 3:20 am

Gail wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to give me all that information. I
> appreciate it. You are very well informed. Are you a professional
> artist and or photographer?
> Gail 2

She's a vegetable ;-)

Gail

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SAGOTEB

2005-10-07, 3:20 am

Very nice pic! (the flowers are already marked by water :-))
S.

"Gail" <schnitzel49@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4345d530_2@cnews...
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> I took this photo at a friends house this summer. She is very proud of her
> flowers. All I did was use the clone tool to remove the date and add a photo
> edge.
> Can anyone explain watermarking to me? When I see your name or your
> business name on your photos posted here, is that a water mark? I really
> don't know much about this.
> Gail 2
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Joëlle

2005-10-07, 6:54 am

Pretty flowers!
:-)
Joëlle

"Gail" <schnitzel49@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4345d530_2@cnews...
>
> I took this photo at a friends house this summer. She is very proud of her
> flowers. All I did was use the clone tool to remove the date and add a
> photo
> edge.
> Can anyone explain watermarking to me? When I see your name or your
> business name on your photos posted here, is that a water mark? I really
> don't know much about this.
> Gail 2
>
>
>

Ms Joske

2005-10-07, 6:34 pm

Gail wrote:

> I took this photo at a friends house this summer. She is very
> proud of her flowers. All I did was use the clone tool to remove
> the date and add a photo edge.
> Can anyone explain watermarking to me? When I see your name or
> your business name on your photos posted here, is that a water
> mark? I really don't know much about this.

Forgive me for not understanding something that is probably obvious
to you, but I don't see the reason for your frequent crossposting.
There are just a few PSP groups and they get frequented by mostly
the same users, so there is little reason to fear a post will get
overlooked :-)

As to your question, the photos I think you are referring to have
text added to them with the Text Tool. The quickest way for you to
see this happen is to add vector text, which will land on a layer
above your photo. You can move and transform (tilt, resize) the
vector text when you select it, and you can move it or its layer
around.

Joske

Gail

2005-10-07, 6:34 pm

Since I'm new to posting on newsgroups, I guess I thought I should post to
the two groups, but I can see that really isn't necessary. I depend on you
all to keep helping me out until I learn the ins and outs of it all.
Thanks
Gail2
"Ms Joske" <j.backer@home.nl> wrote in message news:434693ee$1_1@cnews...
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> Gail wrote:
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> Forgive me for not understanding something that is probably obvious
> to you, but I don't see the reason for your frequent crossposting.
> There are just a few PSP groups and they get frequented by mostly
> the same users, so there is little reason to fear a post will get
> overlooked :-)
>
> As to your question, the photos I think you are referring to have
> text added to them with the Text Tool. The quickest way for you to
> see this happen is to add vector text, which will land on a layer
> above your photo. You can move and transform (tilt, resize) the
> vector text when you select it, and you can move it or its layer
> around.
>
> Joske
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