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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Whiz on August 30, 2007, 18:47
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On my website, I display some of my images as thumbnails that will take you to where you can buy the image at iStockphoto. The images are fairly small(around 126X100), so I was just wondering if I should bother with a watermark for these tiny images. Thanks.
http://jrtmedia.com/final_site/code/photos_two.shtml (http://jrtmedia.com/final_site/code/photos_two.shtml)
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Whiz,
Personally I don't bother watermarking such small images (I have them in my travel reports and my photo page), but indeed they can still be perfectly used in other websites.
Regards,
Adelaide
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If it's a lot of work i wouldn't really bother. Maybe, just maybe you might loose a sale or two, but for such small images i don't think it's worth spending the time. BUt hey, thats just me ;D
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I put watermark on every stock image that I made. On my party or "leisure" images I dont. And I put really big watermark, so I had few images stolen and from that day I protect my images.
Like this:
(http://i11.tinypic.com/52wouia.jpg)
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Chode,
In this case is a reasonably "large" image - I watermark those too. Whiz however was refereing to very small ones, like thumbnails.
Regards,
Adelaide
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I think the real question should be why are you redirecting buyers from your website to iStock where you will earn 20% as a non exclusive. Unless of course you are hoping for some $10 buyer referals from attracting new buyers to istock.
If you were going to that trouble of setting up links to a microstock site Featurepics would be a better choice as you can set the price and receive 70% so if you are selling an 8mp photo for $5 you get $3.50 sure beats the $1.14 -$1.44 you would be getting from a 6 credit sale at iStock.
Anyway just a suggestion, I don't bother with watermarks until its blog size 300 x 400 or so.