{"id":299,"date":"2010-09-10T13:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:18:12","slug":"photographers-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/09\/photographers-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tjbrison-jollylotti-0281-01102006-2\"<\/a>Yes folks, I simply can’t believe it, but still <\/strong><\/em>I read comment after comment, on blogs and photography sites – by journalists and photographers alike – that they have ‘protection’ for their online work. Well, I beg to differ:<\/p>\n

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Your online photos are being stolen!<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No matter what service you use or what precautions you take – it is easy <\/strong><\/em>to copy your online work. No technical knowledge required. Easy peasy. Am I going to tell you how to do it? Hell no!<\/p>\n

The only way to protect your work is to use a huge, annoying, watermark. (See mine bottom right \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

Well, at least, that was <\/strong><\/em>true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Anyone seen the latest retouching options in the Gimp or Photoshop? Yes, I’m talking about ‘content aware’ retouching – it’s simply gob smacking in its wizardry. Previously, removing a (simple) watermark, would require a not inconsiderable amount of technical savvy.<\/p>\n

No longer.<\/p>\n

I read one sentence in a blog, about Photoshop content aware retouching, downloaded a trial of Photoshop CS5 – and ‘removed’ a woman, standing in the middle of Paris crowd scene in 30 seconds. (See above – or rather not<\/strong><\/em> – can you see where she was<\/strong><\/em>?)<\/p>\n

So, the question remains – do you display your work online – or not?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes folks, I simply can’t believe it, but still I read comment after comment, on blogs and photography sites – by journalists and photographers alike – that they have ‘protection’ for their online work. Well, I beg to differ: Your online photos are being stolen! No matter what service you use or what precautions you […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-tech","category-photography","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}