Are People Scoffing at Your Watermark?

The PhotoshopDisasters blog has a collection of actual ads made from images that are overlayed with the iStockphoto watermark. Also see this post for another example. The implication is that the designers were too cheap to pay $10 for the rights to an iStock photo and just grabbed the preview image. Another possibility is that these are comps that nobody bothered to finish.

One comment on the post, I think, speaks volumes about the futility of watermarking:

"I had to stare at these forever before I even saw the 'istockphoto' on each picture. It's like my brain just skipped over them and said, 'Not important! Don't bother processing!'"

Comments

[pam]

In an age where some people will gladly steal photography it might or might not be a moot point. Extensis Portfolio 8.5 has the ability to watermark with destructive watermarks and is very affordable.

One of the best quotes that I read recently was from someone who was firing a person who had been hired on the basis of a portfolio that wasn't his - "You're fired and someday I would like to meet who shot your portfolio."

[Walter Briggs]

With all the thievery, who can blame any of us?