watermark manipulation and removal

J.T.

In last months Popular Photography mag there was a small article that talked about how easy it is to steal an image off the web and remove the watermark.

As a pro user I have watermarked images, right click protection on and largest viewing size is large for all images.

If you can take a screen shot of an image in large view, save it as a jpeg, convert to a tiff, then re-save as a jpeg again, you can apparently remove the watermark. Mind you, the image quality may not be good, but in a technical aspect, is this really possible?

Or does the watermark feature that smugmug uses on our images displayed not able to be removed maliciously this way. I don't want to give any "dishonest web browsing picture stealer my space using thief " any ideas from this post, but I just wanted a bit of insight on this issue.

Thanks.

Allen

J.T. wrote:

In last months Popular Photography mag there was a small article that talked about how easy it is to steal an image off the web and remove the watermark.

As a pro user I have watermarked images, right click protection on and largest viewing size is large for all images.

If you can take a screen shot of an image in large view, save it as a jpeg, convert to a tiff, then re-save as a jpeg again, you can apparently remove the watermark. Mind you, the image quality may not be good, but in a technical aspect, is this really possible?

Or does the watermark feature that smugmug uses on our images displayed not able to be removed maliciously this way. I don't want to give any "dishonest web browsing picture stealer my space using thief " any ideas from this post, but I just wanted a bit of insight on this issue.

Thanks.

The watermark is part of the generated displayed photos not a layer and
your original is not touched. As long as you disabled originals you should
have no problem. Of course, if you have a WM that can be cropped off like
along an edge ...

Andy

JT, why don't you try it?