Avoiding abuse of your artworks/images

Some of you have concerns on people using images of your artworks without permission. I think this is really a rightful worry. Just as much as others who don't like us to infringe their copyrights, as an artist/designer ourselves, we don't want others to use our materials without getting permission explicitly from us.

You can consider the followings when uploading images:

1. Avoid putting up huge and best quality images in the first place. Size the image to just fit into the blog and keeping dpi as 72.
2. Add watermark of your name or identity/logo using Photoshop. Set this layer with transparency (say 20%) and appear consistently always in the corner (or even in the middle!).
3. Use digital watermark in Photoshop by going thr' 'Filter/Digimarc/Embed Watermark'. This will create an invisible watermark that can be used to prove ownership if dispute happen.
4. Add a copyright statement somewhere, probably on your 'About Me' page.

Of course, if you doesn't mind people to use your stuff, say it clearly in the statement. You can save up people's (for those who care) time of emailing you for permission.