I will start out by saying that I appreciate that people don't want their work stolen, that they want attribution and that they have the right to protect their art.

Now that I've got that out of the way, I will unload about watermarks.

Some people get it right and I don't mind it at all.  A name at the bottom or scrolling across the side or top- excellent.  My friend Gary has his name completely HUGE across some of his pictures and I never see him obscure his model's faces.  If he can manage that, why is the annoying obscure-the-whole-damn-picture method used so frequently?  And SUBMITTED TO GROUPS!!!!!!!  It's starting to really piss me off.  

If someone puts their picture on DA and submits it to a group, you would think that said person would enjoy favorites, wants feedback, would like strokes or is otherwise seeking attention and possibly even sales.   If someone would like some feedback or faves from me (and some others), it might behoove them to make their picture somewhat VISIBLE.   I know,  they want to protect their precious, unique and special picture of V4 sitting down looking sexy because they are the only ones in the world to make THAT sort of picture, and the only way they can REALLY ensure protection from dastardly thievery  is if a humongous white DA watermark is making it so that you can't make out the middle forty percent of the picture.  

*sigh*  Some really nice people do this, and then some petulant children stomp their mental feet at anyone who brings it up.  I try to never be rude to people on their picture page because it's not the end of the world.  I have, however, seen other people bring it up fairly politely and full on internet tantrums occur.  "I'm so sick of people complaining about my watermark, I have the right to blah blah blah blah if I want to."  

Yes, you do have the right to stick a watermark over your picture that is so obnoxious that people get annoyed at having even clicked on it.  But you put it right out there for people to give feedback, so you need to listen when many people are complaining about the same thing.  You put it in our inbox, knocked on our door.  You offered it to the world to look at, but only as much as trying to peek through a really dirty old window in a ghost town.  If you don't really want people to look at it and it's so very special and amazing, print it off and frame it and put it in your house.  Don't put it on DA, though, because I might just get so sick of it that I will go out of my way to tell you that your watermark is preventing me from faving your creation.  And I won't even have to be rude about it to set some people off.  

Just something to think about.



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