Digimarc for Images is committed to the photography community, especially travel photographers! We like to live vicariously through all the adventures and exotic journeys they get to go on — all in the name of "work." To highlight our committment, we are a proud sponsor of the Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) contest, "The premier travel photography awards and your showcase to the world."

The following banners were provided to Digimarc to help by TPOTY to help showcase our involvement. Can anyone tell us what kind of whale/dolphin that is???

Camera prints, film and slides ability to survive thanks to the physical nature of their materials is pretty common. Keeping in mind that photography only began in the 1820's and we may find that digital photography could be even more durable.

I loved reading this story about a DSLR that spend a year at the bottom of a bay. Not only was the diver able to retrieve images, but he also found the owner of the camera and images using a social network.

A bit more disconcerting is this story of a woman who finds a family photo in Ikea that she posted to her blog. Ikea bought the image from a stock photography company. I was unable to find a follow-up to this story. Most likely the stock photography company paid their base rate for a stock photo if there's no copyright infringement.

My two conclusions:

1. Make sure you erase that SD card really well before you sell off an old camera.
2. Before posting images to the web consider adding a digital watermark like Digimarc for Images and copyrighting them. If your stolen photos are found and have your copyright you could do better than a base rate for stock photos.

 

We’ve had increasing interest by our customers on how to best maintain the integrity of digital watermarks. Here are a few tips and tricks that should help in the long run:

High strength watermarks survive the best.
Make sure to embed your images with a higher strength; this just means you are putting more watermark signal into your image. With our new "Chroma" technology, we suggest using an embed strength of 3 or 4, as the watermark should still be imperceptible. It is also easier for your watermark to survive when you save your final image at a maximum quality setting in Photoshop.

Join John Batdorff, professional photographer and author of Black and White: From Snapshots to Great Shots, as he shares with you his vision and straight forward techniques for creating compelling black and white images — protected by Digimarc for Images. Registration is free!

Check out some of John's great photos and read his blog at http://www.batdorffphotography.com.

If you're one of the lucky ones who've discovered the value of using Action Scripts (to digitally watermark lots of photos, of course) and your software of choice is Adobe Elements, you should read Erin's blog at Texas Chicks.

It seems that purchasers of Adobe Elements 9 on the Mac App Store are NOT allowed to install action scripts through the Effects Palette.

Be sure to read Erin's blog (she's an Action Scripting Goddess for those using Elements). Just incase you're lazy... the solution is (a spoiler alert?); buy direct from Adobe or Amazon to avoid this issue.

Thanks again to the Texas Chicks!

With the launch of Digimarc Discover, Digimarc now has two watermarking products for commercial use. While both are based on the same core technology, they address different customer requirements.

A high level way to describe the difference: Digimarc for Images is for digitally watermarking images that will always be digital (usually on the Internet) and Digimarc Discover is for images that will be printed. Now why do you need either of those services for your images?

I just wanted to share a letter to everyone from the Emancipated Artist community. Anyone can sign up; it's totally free... so what are you waiting for?

While hopefully most of you Digimarc blog readers have already visited and joined The Emancipated Artist, some of you may not have. The Emancipated Artist is a Digimarc for Images sponsored online community geared toward helping photographers merge their love of art with tools to market, sell and profit from their creativity.

When you visit, you’ll find:

• The Artist Spotlight where we feature a different member and/or professional photographer every other week.
• The Photo of the Week where we highlight a photo we find inspiring.
• The EA Creative Challenge where members are given a photo theme then encouraged to put their unique twist to it, and share it with the group.
• The Useful Info section where you can access information and tools on how to properly interact with clients, price your work, and build a stellar portfolio.

We love welcoming new members to our growing community, so please stop by and have a look around!

Sincerely,
Khali Lanning

We've all heard how all things digital live forever on the internet. It's the same for posted photos of drunk friends and product reviews.

I was surprised to learn that a 2004 review of Digimarc for Images is a top ten result on Google and Bing searches for Digimarc.

The product that Ken Rockwell reviewed in 2004 is a number of updates behind and two major upgrades out of date with Digimarc's product currently offered for the needs of pro and amateur photographers alike. So what's a blogger to do? It would be unfair and rather silly for me to rebut Mr. Rockwell's 2004 conclusions...

Stop by our exhibit at Photoshop World expo for a chat! We want to meet you and offer a chance to talk directly to us about Digimarc for Images and Digimarc Discover. We're ready to answer questions regarding both, demo each technology and have special pricing available. We can even chat about Photoshop World classes; I know I'll have a few favorites to discuss.

Of course we’ll have swag and contest giveaways for you to enter. Did you know you can get a free pass to the expo if you don’t want to take classes?

Come by and say "Hi!" (Booth 219)

Greetings from Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona Spain. This conference is the largest gathering for anything related to mobile and yours truly was there, not only to witness the swarm of 55,000 people, but to launch the Digimarc Discover Online Services Portal (OSP). We had our own booth right in the App Planet, where many of the folks that stopped by thought we were the coolest new technology around. You can see some panaromic photos of the the entire show right here.

With the Online Services Portal you can now turn your printed content into new rich interactive experiences, and all of it can be done directly from the portal. That's right, just create a free acount, watermark your image, identify the URL that the image will link to, and select when and how long it will be active. Once your watermarked images are printed, they can be read using our free Digimarc Discover reader, downloadable from the iTunes App Store or the Android Market. No barcodes cluttering up your layout. Setting up an account is simple and during our Open Beta ( through May 31st 2011) you can turn your printed content interactive for free. So what are you waiting for? Go to www.digimarc.com/portal to get started!