Watermark question

Peace

Hello,

I am curious as how to handle this type of situation. We all want to protect our work. Thats a given statement. BUT - lets say someone wanted to purchase a picture of mine from my website and wants it to me an 8x10 glossy. The person will go thru the motions of purchase but will notice that the watermark I have on the photo is still there and will be purchased with the watermark on the photo. What if he or she doesn't want the watermark on the photo and then ops out of purchasing the photo and then I loose a purchase. Thats not good. Isn't there an option or way around this without having to remove all my watermarks that are on my pictures so that a person will not be bothered by a watermark? Why cant the picture be watermarked on the back of the photo after purchase - that would then show:

1. I took the photo
2. Where to go get it again or others photos like it
3. Copyright my work...etc etc..

I am not sure if I am setup correctly - maybe I haven't enabled something on my end to allow this feature if it exist.

I currently have the right click feature enabled to prevent someone from copying the pictures but we all know if they want to copy it then can other ways around that idea. But I don't want to loose a customer because my watermark is on the front of the picture. But I don't want to open myself up to not having a watermark on the front of my pictures. So I am not sure what to do - or how to handle this correctly. Any ideas???

Thanks,

Sam

denisegoldberg

If you applied the watermark in smug it is not on the original and won't be on a print. You can state that on your site when you discuss purchasing prints.

From the help page at http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-watermark-protection:

Tip:Block access to your originals. We don't watermark originals because we use them to make prints.

If you want something to show on the front of the photo after purchase you can apply a print mark. See help page at http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-watermark.

--- Denise

Peace

denisegoldberg wrote: »

If you applied the watermark in smug it is not on the original and won't be on a print. You can state that on your site when you discuss purchasing prints.

From the help page at http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-watermark-protection:

If you want something to show on the front of the photo after purchase you can apply a print mark. See help page at http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-watermark.

--- Denise

Great news. I had no idea. I am not sure if I want to use a print mark since I would like to keep it clean at time of print. I would like to use a back-print and I think I have that already setup. Its setup as "Backprinting > SMUGMYNAME SMUGDOMAIN". So to my understanding with the back print - its mainly for informational purposes only so the person with the print knows where to go to get other prints like the one he is looking at.

Please look at image attached...

Is there anyway to have my logo up in the left hand corner of the image? right now its says Smugmug pro. I have on my website up in that area my logo but it doesn't show there for some reason.

Thanks,

denisegoldberg

You can't customize the shopping cart to add a message.

But - can can add your branding to the cart. See help page at http://www.smugmug.com/help/pro-photography-branding.

--- Denise