wiskerke Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 What would you do? The Alamy watermark is obscuring the main subject of this image: Should I just trash it? (Because leaving it would hurt my CTR: people will view it but never consider buying) Would a client just see through it? Have you seen examples like this? Do you have them in your own collection? (I have looked through mine and while sometimes the watermark gets in the way a little, never as bad as with this one.) Should I have known better and not have shot it in the first place? (Remember before we had a watermark just south of center. But this is a very recent shot.) Should I leave it in and hope for a different watermark at some point in the future? wim thumbnail: normal zoom page - without - with: big zoom: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I should not have thought it would be too much of a problem, if you are concerned you could crop it to line the name up in a different place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I suppose if you cropped a bit off the top of the shot, the watermark would drop down a little to leave LA BELGIQUE clear as you wish. Might offend your editors choice and, of course, you would have to resubmit and mark the original down for deletion. You could leave the two versions available, but there's no way I know to make the two show up side by side, or even near on the thumbnail offerings. Paul and I were thinking along the same lines but he's obviously quicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I certainly wouldn't delete it. It might be an idea to change the caption so it starts with " 'La Belgique' written above....." - it might even increase zooms as people have to click on it to find out what it says. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I'd like to think that most buyers with an ounce of common sense would see through the watermark. Is one image with the watermark falling in an inconvenient place out of 2000+ images going to be too disastrous to your CTR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 It doesn't bother me much. Just one of those things. I must have a few like it. This isn't too good but like yours the important word is repeated. At least the watermark's effectiveness is indisputable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLSI Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Don't delete. Regular customers get to see unwatermarked images when they're logged in, and anyone searching for that particular building will probably already know what it says on the front anyway. If the caption explains that it says "La Belgique," people who mouse over the image will see the explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I've got some like this, which I don't do anything about. However, it would be great if we could choose the position of the Alamy watermark in manage your images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy deWitt Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Hi Wim: If you look at the thumbnail version it is perfectly legible and you barely see the watermark at all. Alamy might like to consider doing what other stock agencies do which is have a movable watermark which you can strategically place according to the detail in the photo when you make the initial adjustments. In any case, I would leave it. Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 Don't delete. Regular customers get to see unwatermarked images when they're logged in, and anyone searching for that particular building will probably already know what it says on the front anyway. If the caption explains that it says "La Belgique," people who mouse over the image will see the explanation. Wow! Are you sure? That would be very good news. (Maybe not news per se if that has been the case all along.) wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 Hi Wim: If you look at the thumbnail version it is perfectly legible and you barely see the watermark at all. Alamy might like to consider doing what other stock agencies do which is have a movable watermark which you can strategically place according to the detail in the photo when you make the initial adjustments. In any case, I would leave it. Kathy Yes I know of that solution. And sometimes use it ;-) And yes, it would be great to have that here. I can also see the problem if that has to be implemented on a huge scale. For the moment I'm trying to replicate the exact watermark effect in Photoshop for myself. Just to use it like a last check. Hmmm maybe it should be my first check. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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