Our digital images blog primarily focuses on, you guessed it... "digital images;" although we occasionally sprinkle in relevant news and tips related to digital watermarking for printed materials and security applications.

Well today is one of those alternate posts. Our partner Complete Inspection Systems has integrated Digimarc digital watermarking technology into their track-and-trace solutions for packaging. Complete Inspection Systems' AutoProof Pro Imaging Suite can embed and authenticate Digimarc digital watermarks.

To learn more about their solution, here's a digital version of a brochure — or you can check out their website.

When you have great images and artwork, you need to get it into the public domain in multiple ways, including public Flickr PhotoStreams.

Check out some amazing work by Julie Everhart; who has an impressive 125,000 plus views on Flickr! Julie uses Digimarc for Images to protect her work.

Editor's Note:  To see more of Julie's artwork visit her on her Redbubble site.

Our friends at ImageSpan have a great product, LicenseStream, and of course they blog about the latest LicenseStream news and offer tips and tricks to content owners.

The recently posted a two part series (can a series really be two parts?) on ways photographers can engage their clients during the holidays. 

My favorite tip is to reach out to potential partners who would be interested in bartering services. 

Adding my two cents to the their blog post, many web sites have remnant advertising inventory this time of year due to increased holiday traffic they are unable to sell. Instead of running low CPM "run of site" impressions they could be running ads to your storefront - in exchange for your images for use in future marketing efforts.

Facebook. Twitter. Picasa. Flickr. Blog. What else did I miss?

If you're anything like me, you have a variety of sites where to post your images. I post some images for friends on Facebook, then throw a few to the family over on Picasa, and then every once in a while tweet a couple more onto my personal blog to reach former colleagues (and provide fodder for the stalkers).

I recently stumbled across a site called Posterous which makes it easy to post your images online - to multiple sources - all via email. Simply email text, images, audio and video and route to the sites of your choosing. 

Over the next few weeks I'll do some testing with Digimarc for Images and share my results here.

Here’s a few quick digital image trends and tidbits live from the 6Sight conference in Monterey, California.

• In the United States, the total number of camera phones is expected to overtake the number of laptop personal computers next year
• Yesterday NTT Docomo introduced 19 new camera phone models in Japan, all with 8 megapixel cameras. Come on AT&T can you at least release one in the United States? 
  
• 14% of all handsets sold in the United States do not have a camera
• Biggest impact on cellular networks as far as data carrying capacity… wait for it… Pandora Radio

More to come later. For updated news visit 6Sight’s blog.