Just about 30 minutes ago, I am beginning to see an icon in the shape of an eye named 'Preview' appear on the bottom right of each image in SS on the detail page. On click, it brings a real large preview. Anyone else see it ?

I just looked after I read your post, and I can see it too. Very nice.

Well, it is better for buyers to check pictures on details... but it is also easy to copy the large preview and eventaully remove the watermark (specially with some illustrations)

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on October 21, 2015, 15:49
I just looked after I read your post, and I can see it too. Very nice.

Yes Jo Ann; I think it is a nice feature. But, the larger preview looks a little less sharp than the similar sized version of same image from my laptop. Do you also see it that way ?

It was about time.
D-amn, this preview is huge.

I don't like this. Preview is f*cking huge and you can remove watermark in PS like in 5 minutes. And there is no protection if you click with a righ mouse button and try to save image.

Quote from: pixsol on October 21, 2015, 16:09

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on October 21, 2015, 15:49
I just looked after I read your post, and I can see it too. Very nice.

Yes Jo Ann; I think it is a nice feature. But, the larger preview looks a little less sharp than the similar sized version of same image from my laptop. Do you also see it that way ?

I looked at several of the images and my browser (Chrome, Mac) appears to scale the image to the full width of my window, which means for a preview of a vertical image, I'm seeing it at way more than 100%, which does look a bit squishy and has artifacts. If I Save As the image - which has the image ID and a a note to download from SS at the bottom, so it's not creating orphans that a buyer will have a hard time tracking later - at 100% it looks as I think it should.

I'm seeing 1500 pixels on the long edge as the size they're generating

Yep, click that "eye" and a ginormous image appears full screen. Little bits of WM float around, but nothing to stop a thief.

Geez.

what?? I just clicked on a random halloween background vector image on my iPad, and I got a nice, big preview image WITH NO WATERMARK WHATSOEVER.

OK...I see. It's clearer now that I've moved to my laptop. There is a very subtle watermark. But I still can't believe how easy it would be to remove in Photoshop. It would take me three minutes to have a usable, large, free image.

What. The. Heck.

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on October 21, 2015, 16:37

Quote from: pixsol on October 21, 2015, 16:09

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on October 21, 2015, 15:49
I just looked after I read your post, and I can see it too. Very nice.

Yes Jo Ann; I think it is a nice feature. But, the larger preview looks a little less sharp than the similar sized version of same image from my laptop. Do you also see it that way ?

I looked at several of the images and my browser (Chrome, Mac) appears to scale the image to the full width of my window, which means for a preview of a vertical image, I'm seeing it at way more than 100%, which does look a bit squishy and has artifacts. If I Save As the image - which has the image ID and a a note to download from SS at the bottom, so it's not creating orphans that a buyer will have a hard time tracking later - at 100% it looks as I think it should.

I'm seeing 1500 pixels on the long edge as the size they're generating

Thanks Jo Ann  I see all that you have described happen on both IE & Chrome on Windows 8. The vertical images seem to suffer more than the horizontal ones due to the scaling of the image to fit the screen.

A more invasive watermark is urgently needed

Quote from: Shelma1 on October 21, 2015, 16:55
OK...I see. It's clearer now that I've moved to my laptop. There is a very subtle watermark. But I still can't believe how easy it would be to remove in Photoshop. It would take me three minutes to have a usable, large, free image.

What. The. Heck.

Agree. And if a thief wanted to use the image as a small jpg for a website, why bother to remove those tiny WM-webs at all? They would just about disappear on screen.

Geez.

Quote from: Mrblues101 on October 21, 2015, 17:09
A more invasive watermark is urgently needed

+100

Vincent, are you still here???

That watermark is an absolute joke. It is almost like they do not know what they are doing. I would not expect this kind of mistake from them.

Holy crap.

I just checked the iStock large preview (zoom) and noticed that (1) the large preview image is smaller than the one at SS at 1235 pixsels, (2) the large preview definitely has a stronger watermark and (3) the preview image does not autostretch to the size of the computer screen.

One hopes that SS will do something quickly about the watermark strength and the autostretch issue that renders the images (looking) very unsharp.

I downloaded one of my own images. It's huge. This is very, very bad.

That's a terribly bad watermark, why are they doing this? At least think about image theft before doing large previews

WATERMARK IS TOO SMALL!

To me, what's most aggravating about this is that there's no need for this kind of overkill. It's not like SS needed to add something to make the images it sells look more appealing. It's been doing just fine without this non-improvement.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 

Geez.

I don't hang out on the SS forums, but I'm curious to know if contributors are screaming about this over there. If not, they outta be!

They are. I posted there as well. Annoying to have to sign in.

Here's the thread on their forum
http://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/86995-new-preview-on-images/

I didnt sign up to give my images away for free. They need to fix this. Any new thing or change is for the worse, they really cant do anything positive for contributors anymore.