Every webmaster witnesses content theft from time to time. Most of the time it is text or images that gets copied and published on other websites. There is however a solution for images that adds a visible copyright notice to them. You could use image editors like Gimp, Adobe Photoshop or Paintshop to create a copyright notice on every image that you want to publish on the Internet. This is however a time consuming task and I would like to introduce a similar method using the image manipulation software CopyRightLeft to batch edit images and add a notice to them.
CopyRightLeft is a Open-Source application that has two processing modes. The first is an image by image mode that manipulates one image at a time. You can use the tool to open an image in many known formats including jpg, gif, bmp, tiff and png and save the image in the same formats except gif. You can then enter a text, define the font size, color and many other options. It is for instance possible to add the copyright notice at the bottom of the image, in the center or rotate it to place it diagonal.
Instead of opening and manipulating every image by itself you could use batch processing to process a number of images at once. It is possible to select a number of files, a directory or a file list from a text document and process them one after the other. CopyRightLeft can be run in most Windows versions. I was able to run it in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows XP without problems.
Many normal users who visit your website will probably dislike that all images on your website have a copyright notice thus preventing the full view of the image. It is up to you to decide whether to use it to fight content theft.
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At the moment picture-shark (imho) has more functionality and become more flexible.
http://www.picture-shark.com
Regards, Litschi
I was using the ‘Add text’ option in XnView to do this but it was a pain if I had a lot of images. This software looks promising.
You can batch edit by recording actions in Photoshop (at least in CS). Watermarks can be done with this method.