{"id":2335,"date":"2015-06-08T18:22:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T01:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2015-06-08T18:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T01:22:16","slug":"watermarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/watermarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ongoing (and ultimately un-winnable) discussion on whether to <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2015\/05\/13\/when-watermarking-photos-gets-taken-too-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watermark<\/a> your online images or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From an aesthetic point of view, watermarks can be\u00a0ugly. Many photographers plaster large logos or text on a piece with no regard for how it looks.<\/p>\n<p>Watermarks are also very inefficient at their stated purpose of limiting photo theft. If someone wants to steal your photos, they will crop out, retouch, or just ignore your watermark.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I upload an image, especially to something like Facebook, I put my name and website on the image. I figure that it makes it easier for someone to find out who I am, and possibly see more of my images.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it works, but for the amount of time it takes, I figure it can&#8217;t hurt too much, as long as I try to keep the watermark classy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ongoing (and ultimately un-winnable) discussion on whether to watermark your online images or not.\u00a0 From an aesthetic point of view, watermarks can be\u00a0ugly. Many photographers plaster large logos or text on a piece with no regard for how it looks. Watermarks are also very inefficient at their stated purpose of limiting photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-photography","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}