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Agency Based Discussion => Sites that no longer exist => LuckyOliver.com => Topic started by: StockManiac on September 14, 2007, 14:42

Title: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: StockManiac on September 14, 2007, 14:42
As the title suggests, do you think that LO should change their current watermark?

There are some that believe the current watermark is weak and encourages image thefts, while others believe that the watermark is fine and should be left alone.

What do you think???
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: StockManiac on September 15, 2007, 07:29
Keep those votes coming...
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: StockManiac on September 17, 2007, 05:38
Any more last minute votes?
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: madelaide on September 18, 2007, 08:01
I'm curious to know what people who vote NO think. I can understand being indifferent to the watermark problem, but what makes some people prefer the current watermark?

Regards,
Adelaide
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: StockManiac on September 23, 2007, 06:09
Any last minute voters?
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: StockManiac on September 23, 2007, 06:10
I'm curious to know what people who vote NO think.

My guess is that they are the LO employees or affiliates.
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: sharpshot on September 23, 2007, 09:21
They will change the watermark so that it is more visible on the photos where it is hard to see.  I sent them an email and they have adjusted the watermark on some of mine.  Here's an example http://tinyurl.com/28tdmk
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: hospitalera on September 23, 2007, 10:33
I'm curious to know what people who vote NO think.


My guess is that they are the LO employees or affiliates.


I just voted "NO" and the reason is shown in Sharpshots image here: http://tinyurl.com/28tdmk (http://tinyurl.com/28tdmk)! I don't think that an image like this would be very attractive to buyers because of the watermark, SY
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: sharpshot on September 23, 2007, 12:11
It would be fine with a more reasonable watermark though.  I only asked to be able to see the watermark.  This has gone from one extreme to the other.
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: madelaide on September 23, 2007, 16:21
Indeed, we don't have to go so extreme. 

FT had a good idea with the black and white options, according to the prevailing tone of each image.  Of course, the choice of their watermark is horrible.

Regards,
Adelaide
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: anonymous on September 23, 2007, 19:00
No watermark = stolen images.

bulky watermark = NO stolen images

end of conversation...
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: Karimala on December 05, 2007, 00:29
Good news...LO changed the watermark.
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: madelaide on December 05, 2007, 17:38
Good news!  There is clearly a difference:

(http://s3.amazonaws.com/luckyoliver/public/LO/-n/ew/LO-new_year_2008_-_6-5601943.jpg) (http://www.luckyoliver.com/photos/derived/blbePUb-Sr26chadbivJjM/LO-new_year_2008_-_1-5564851.jpg)

Regards,
Adelaide
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: Fred on December 06, 2007, 00:30
Cannot believe they wasted time on this problem.  They should be working on getting some buyers to the site.  fred
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: bryan_luckyoliver on December 06, 2007, 01:53
Fred-
1. We didn't see it as a problem- we'll probably allow people to display images without a watermark.

2. We built a new processing engine with the latest release, so it changed without additional work.

3. While I like our engineers, they're stuck in bug fixes now, not marketing :)

and yes, we're marketing.
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: judsonabts on December 06, 2007, 09:54
I'm on 17 Micro / Macro websites while I feel out my niche.   While sales have been slow at L.O.  I would rank it as my favorite "look".  My only issue is, I can't get the FTP to work.
Title: Re: Should LO Change Their Watermark?
Post by: Karimala on December 06, 2007, 11:48
I'm on 17 Micro / Macro websites while I feel out my niche.   While sales have been slow at L.O.  I would rank it as my favorite "look".  My only issue is, I can't get the FTP to work.

LO recently underwent a major upgrade, and FTP has been temporarily disabled while the kinks are worked out.  It should be back up soon.