Hi all,
I made a website for my client, he's selling printed photography online. We're concerned about people downloading his photos and use it on their website without permission. All we have now is a copyright notice in the right bottom of the photos. But it's quite easy to chop the bottom off the photo. Now we're thinking to put the copyright notice in the middle of the photo with 30% transparency.

1. As a consumer, do you think it's ok to put the copyright notice in the middle of the photo? (of course it wont be printed on actual photo)
2. Will it put people off from buying it?

Cheers.

your going to give the people that buy it a clean photo without the watermark right? put a watermark on it but give the people the buy it a unedited photo.

your going to give the people that buy it a clean photo without the watermark right? put a watermark on it but give the people the buy it a unedited photo.

Yes, i think this is the best option

It wont be a problem, if you apply the water mark see to it that the photo image should be visible :) . Everything is fine till the original photo when printed does not come with a watermark

yes that what we have right now as you can see in question number 1. The question is will the watermark across the photo put people off from buying it.

Most of the photo sites that sell for a living have a watermark across the middle to prevent theft. I doubt there will be an issue, though some might be put off. You have to weigh the potential of a few lost purchases against wholesale theft without paying.

I'd personally use GD and watermark, faint, but right across the middle.
To add, if he's posting high resolution samples for viewing on line, he's asking for trouble. The images should be high quality, but small and watermarked. A larger version to show quality should be a partial image, not the whole thing, IMHO.