Everyone Please Read.....

[Russian Blue]

A moderator on another site found a member using Nakita pics and claiming them to be their own. The moderator knew me so they knew this member was lying. Just a warning that others may be using your pics in other forums, online contests, etc. If you want some protection to your photos, place a watermark through the image.


I'm not sure if I should just post this message here, or Karen/Paul should post a message in the general forum.

I'm just so ticked off. Nice way to end the week! NOT!

So you may see past threads missing photos because I am taking the Nakita pics off the board.

[Kirsten]

Oh no, that's so annoying! Never thought about that!

I'm sorry that this happened to you!

Thanks for the warning and the water mark advice!

Kirsten

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

That's awful! Some people are sooo sick.

Does that mean we won't see Nakita anymore? Or the new pics will have the watermarks on?

Any suggestions on how to put a watermark on them? I've got Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, can I get watermarks on the pics with that?

Thanks for the warning.

[Russian Blue]

I'm still researching the watermark thing. I don't have photoshop so I'm out of luck there.

The watermark will not really protect your image. Someone can still use it on another site and say they own it. Even online contests don't really validate that the person is the owner.

I'll just be more selective with my pics! Or, I'll post a pile of out of range, blurry bad hair day Nakita pics!

[bluekat]

I never thought of that either, those people make me sick!

[Prairie Purrs]

That's plain disgusting! I hope you can figure out the watermarking, because I just love seeing darling Nakita.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

I just got this from the Help section of Photoshop Elements 2.0

Adding file information

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In Windows, you can add file information to files saved in Photoshop, TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and PDF formats. In Mac OS, you can add file information to files in any format. You can add information such as the image title and a caption, and copyright information.

Note: File information cannot be saved in GIF format when converting a file from a different format.

To enter information about a file:

Choose File > File Info.
Enter the desired information in the File Info dialog box:
Caption to enter text that can be printed under an image or displayed in a Web browser's title bar. To print the caption, choose File > Print Preview, and select Caption. Then print as usual. (See Setting print options for more information.)
Choose Copyrighted Work from Copyright Status to display a copyright symbol in the image window's title bar. Enter the desired text in the Copyright Notice text box. Specify a URL in the Owner URL text box if information about an image can be found on a web site. Click Go To URL to test the link.
Note: If Photoshop Elements detects a Digimarc watermark in the image, the Copyright & URL section is automatically updated.

EXIF to view information imported from your digital camera, such as the date and time the picture was taken, resolution in ppi, the ISO speed rating, f/stop, compression, and exposure time. For more information about EXIF annotations, see your digital camera documentation.
When you've finished entering file information, click OK.

I haven't tried it yet, but hopefully this is what we're looking for. And if Photoshop has it, there's a good chance the other popular software packages have something similar.

[NoahsMommy]

Oh my gosh! Why would someone do that? I mean, I know Nakita is gorgeous, so I know "why", but that's stealing! And lying....

(OK, I sound naive. But I can't understand why someone would do that!)

I'm sorry. I wish we didn't have to not see Nakita as much, but we understand.

[Christiansmommy]

People are really sick sometimes!!

I am also a member of a board devoted to babies. And one of the mothers on the board gets all professional, beautiful pics done of her daughter and has them in her signature and also has a website with the pics...well, one of us on the board saw an advertisement for baby hypnosis on a totally different website...and the pics of the baby that they were using in the website was this womans own child!! They were pics of her sleeping...the mother felt so violated and terribly upset,. as i would be too!! I think she may have even gotten lawyers invovled, b/c this was her child, and besides the fact that they stole these pics from her...what if she didnt even believe in hypnosis and here her child is being used to advertise it on an actual website!!

To make a long story short, nothing that you put out on the internet is sacred/safe...dont give addresses, phone numbers, and personal info and if you have websites, you may want them only password accessible...or put a watermark on them as Russian Blue said!

I am sorry you were violated!!! That is just terrible!!

Robyn

[K & L]

Woah! That it's too sad! Can you contact this person, or someone that could do something about that?

[julijul]

This happened to my friend as well (Jonah and Finn's breeder). A woman stole kitten pics off her website and used them as her *own* kittens to be adopted on Petfinder. I happened to be looking on Petfinder when I noticed a kitten had a remarkable resemblence to my friends kitten, I then went on my friends website and discovered it was the exact same photo!!!!

[Chinadoll]

Originally posted by Christiansmommy
People are really sick sometimes!!

I am also a member of a board devoted to babies. And one of the mothers on the board gets all professional, beautiful pics done of her daughter and has them in her signature and also has a website with the pics...well, one of us on the board saw an advertisement for baby hypnosis on a totally different website...and the pics of the baby that they were using in the website was this womans own child!! They were pics of her sleeping...the mother felt so violated and terribly upset,. as i would be too!! I think she may have even gotten lawyers invovled, b/c this was her child, and besides the fact that they stole these pics from her...what if she didnt even believe in hypnosis and here her child is being used to advertise it on an actual website!!

To make a long story short, nothing that you put out on the internet is sacred/safe...dont give addresses, phone numbers, and personal info and if you have websites, you may want them only password accessible...or put a watermark on them as Russian Blue said!

I am sorry you were violated!!! That is just terrible!!

Robyn

That's awful! For most things on the internet, if someone isn't using it for business purposes..but entering pictures in contest and stuff or posting on other message boards I don't think there's much you can do. But if it's a picture of her child and because it's for business advertisment and they did not have permission, I do believe that it's illeagal, and she can take legal action.

[batgirl1980]

People are sick. I design my husbands website for him, and some others, and i've had to start implementing what is called an anti leech program on the images they are worried about.. because on Tuesday I went in to check the referrers to his website for him, and noticed about 10 different punk people linking to his forum smilies... so i immediately protected it. The anti leech won't help here though.. unless you have your own website server where you can run the program and tell it petoftheday is ok for requesting the image..

But it really the only thing to do is watermark or copyright it.
Those of you with edit programs, if you can't add a watermark you can:
1. Add your name and what not to the actual graphic.. in regular letters..
or if you have a more advanced program:
Add your text over the image where they can't just chop it off without ruining the photo, but make it semi transparent, sorta see throughy.

I didn't do any of that to my images on here, because I thought of all things, pet pictures would be safe!!

I'm really sick of people who are so stupid they can't do anything for themselves and take what is other people's as their own!

[PayItForward]

But don't they say....

Imitation is the lowest form of flattery

So in a way, it is a compliment to Nakita. (Beautiful girl)

Sad people, to steal anothers pet image but they can't steal the cuddles....

[popcornbird]

That's why I always delete Popcorn and Muffin's pics a few days after posting them. You just never know what crazy people could be out there!

How rude!