Watermark not showing on linked photos

Maggedy

My watermark appears in my smugmug galleries but when I link to the photo, the watermark is not there.

See, for example, the post by Maggedy here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=105818&page=306. No watermark.

Is this a known issue?

jfriend

Please provide a link to the gallery where this image is watermarked.

rsquared

You have originals enabled, and that is what you posted on POTN. Compare these two links, one with the Original size, and one at Large (the last letter(s) of the image URL determines the size)

http://mairimages.smugmug.com/Current-Work/POTN-Photos/IMG8312/976793792_FQVcc-O.jpg

http://mairimages.smugmug.com/Current-Work/POTN-Photos/IMG8312/976793792_FQVcc-L.jpg

jfriend

Found the gallery. The image you have linked into that forum is an original-sized image:

http://mairimages.smugmug.com/Current-Work/POTN-Photos/IMG8312/976793792_FQVcc-O.jpg

Original images are never watermarked. If you are trying to protect your images online with watermarks, you should never allow access to originals. Of course, if you turn access to originals off in your POTN gallery, it will break the link in the forum (subject to local browser caching of people who have already seen it).

rsquared

The gallery (and image) is at http://mairimages.smugmug.com/Current-Work/POTN-Photos/13275514_EMhjB#976793792_FQVcc

NiceNames made it very quick to work back from the linked image to the gallery...

Maggedy

Thanks, all for the explanation and the help. I get it now