Trouble With Models Claiming Rights

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Originally Posted by tigermom

The way I do it with photoshop is creating an action (just recording one where I make a watermark on one image), then batch process folders with that action. You may need separate actions for vertical and horizontal, or you may be happy with one action for both.

Of course, when you sell to someone, you'll need the non watermarked version, but I would agree that if you're giving the model copies, you need to give her watermarked copies only.

I always shoot in raw (nef) format - burn a dvd of the original nef files, use adobe raw file converter to adjust image color and exposure (if needed) then save the files as PSD files - I then back them up again (sans watermark).

Now split the psd files into two directories, landscape and portrait. Create an action to drop your watermark on all images in each directory and automate the action using the batch function now burn to dvd again (with watermark)

I then run use the "web photo gallery" option on the .psd files to create the 3 different size .jpg files and thumbnails that we use on the site. Burn the web galleries to dvd.

I then ftp the images and thumbnails to the site and run our add script - after ftp I only have about three minutes work to set primary and tour (teaser) images.

By backing up the images at each stage, I reduce the loss if a dvd gets scratched - I often burn two copies of the original nef files on shoots that I know went well.