Later this week Digimarc will be setting up their booth at Photoshop World. We look forward to meeting our customers face to face...

Probably 2-3 times a month I get asked a similar set of questions about images and the web. Someone needs an image for a posting, blog, etc. and they wonder if they can just use an image they found on the web and/or the images they post can be protected. Yes, often the same person who thinks about downloading an image from the web is often the same person worried about posting their own pic to the web.

I just ran across a great blog post about Digimarc for Images, posted by Ed Fritz. Mr. Fritz is a talented photographer, who uses our solution to provide "peace of mind" for protecting his images. We love sharing the news about real-world customers using our product successfully. Thanks, Ed!

I hope everyone took the time to read my previous post "Take Action When You Find Your Content Misused." All that good stuff is about to become reality for Digimarc for Images. That's right, the integration is almost complete. We'll host a webcast on this very topic, September 8th, and you can register here. 

The agenda:

• How Digimarc and LicenseStream's joint enterprise solution for stock photography agencies, media companies, museum and archives will soon benefit freelance photographers and small business owners
• Overview of LicenseStream's integrated key features including automated remedy options: License Content, Request Attribution, Issue Take Down Notice
• View a live demo of the new capabilities within the Digimarc for Images customer dashboard
• Workflow and best practices recommendations
• And more!

Hurry up and register now, its totally free!

Everyone comes across beautiful images and amazing digital art when perusing through the Internet. And many times, professionals run into their own images being used on other websites. I assume that most pros take pride in their work and enjoy showcasing it. Of course, infringement is the inherent danger of putting your prized images out there for all to see. Now, it could be a simple blogger that found your image and used it on a post, but it could also be a commercial website, generating revenue from your property. 

After months of research around this topic, I noticed a common theme regarding what to do when this happens to you. It came down to two key factors: time and money. It is too time consuming and costly to take actions on these infringing folks. So...what can you do?

Layers Magazine recently did a review of Digimarc for Images. It's good to see such a great magazine include us in their review section. You can read the review here. I must make mention the review was written a little while ago, and states there is no 64bit support. But as many of you may know already, we have a 64bit version available now. You can get it free by going to our downloads section. It's also built into the Adobe Photoshop CS5 release, so no need to update if you have CS5. 

For those of you who are users of Adobe products, Layers Magazine, along with the website can be a great resource. They provide videos and tutorials that cover almost everything. Check them out here and sign up for a free digital version of the magazine.

We've had a lot of positive feedback about the Chroma update to Digimarc for Images and the improved customer account site. Thanks to your support, we're going to hit the road this coming September and go to Las Vegas for Photoshop World.

Subscribers should come by and say HI! Those of you sitting on the fence: Let us show you in person how Digimarc for Images could work for you. I'm at the show for classes too, probably like most of you who'll attend, but I'll hang around the booth in hopes of meeting a few of you.

It's a great way to end the summer, so plan on meeting us at Photoshop World.

The Goods:
September 1-3, 2010
Photoshop World (West)
Las Vegas, Nevada
Digimarc Exhibiting
Booth #546

Over here at Digimarc we are always on the lookout for bloggers that comment and provide feedback or reviews of our products and technology. We recently did a promotion with John Batdorff, an award winning landscape and travel photographer. The promotion included a give away of a free Digimarc for Images account as well as discount coupons to all of his readers. You can visit his website and view the promotion by clicking here. Many of his wonderful and amazing images are shared as well.

So for all you photographer bloggers out there, would you like to run a promotion with us too? It's not too hard, just let me know and we can discuss a promotion that is right for you and your readers.

Over the last couple of weeks there have been a couple of comments to my post on how to create a script in Photoshop to automate the embedding process.

Specifically, Charmen and Raffi were asking about using scripts in Adobe Elements to automate the embedding process.

Adobe Elements 8 does not support the user to record/create action scripts. About 5 years ago it was possible to take a Photoshop script, export it and load it into Elements. I thought that ability was still available, but haven't been able to find a way to do it. But, while I don't have the solution, I do have a resource.

There have been many past inquiries about Digimarc for Images supporting 64-bit versions of Adobe Photoshop. I'm happy to announce that with the release of Photoshop CS5 for Mac and Windows, Digimarc for Images will automatically be included in both the 32 and 64-bit versions. And yes, this does include our newly improved Chroma watermarking technology as well.

CS5 users take note: Please do not try to install any Digimarc plug-ins from CS4 or earlier as they will be incompatible with CS5 and affect your usage of our service.

I also want to mention that if you need 64-bit support on CS4 for Windows, we'll make it available in the next few weeks. Please contact our customer support for this version of the plug-in.