Copyright text/logo designs

drunken fool

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Hi all,

Just wondering what people generally use in terms of copyright text/logo designs because, to be honest, i'm looking for inspiration!

I'm currently just using a simple text insert added on export from Lightroom but whatever font i use it just doesn't look 'right' if you know what i mean.

Any examples appreciated
 
In photoshop there is a custom shape which is already a copyright logo. Just hold shift to keep the ratio 1:1 and make it as big as you want.

That is what I use anyway. :)
 
the copyright logo itself i'm okay with, it's just the overall how it looks. For example -

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The copyright info just doesn't look 'right' to me. I want something that looks better and am just looking for inspiration
 
well for that shot it wont be hard for someone to crop and remove it! What is your aim, to stop people stealing photos or just a polite notice that copyright belongs to you, if the latter then its fine. Other wise you will need something the interfers with the image so a big copyright sympbol across the image but overlayed and its opacity reduced to let the image still be seen.
 
Make the copyright logo much smaller than your name, looks more professional.

Put if you are trying to stop people stealing the image then put your text to overlay and make it a pattern then place it all over the image. :D
 
drunken fool said:
Hi all,

Just wondering what people generally use in terms of copyright text/logo designs because, to be honest, i'm looking for inspiration!

I'm currently just using a simple text insert added on export from Lightroom but whatever font i use it just doesn't look 'right' if you know what i mean.

Any examples appreciated
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None, adding a stupid copyright sign only distracts from the photo and doesn't add any legal protection, in fact if you put copyright to a a made up company like "John Smith Photography" then you probably damage your legal protection.

I use the Exif to store copy-write info, that is what it is there for.
 
Looking for more of a polite notice than anything. Obviously they can crop/clone it out if they wanted but thats the same with most unless you plaster something across the whole image.

Will play with the copyright logo sizing. Any recommendations on fonts? Can't seem to find anything that looks good!
 
A space between the logo and your name would do wonders for a start, also perhaps reduce the contrast between the text and the background so it doesn't stand out so much, otherwise I think it looks fine for what it is.
 
So no need to uglify your pictures with a watermark if you're worried about copyright? I would only really use it to ruin a picture that might be worth something, forcing people to want to see the whole thing unblemished.
 
Clown said:
So no need to uglify your pictures with a watermark if you're worried about copyright? I would only really use it to ruin a picture that might be worth something, forcing people to want to see the whole thing unblemished.
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Exactly. The great thing wit digital images is that you can include all the copyright information in the EXIF if you want.

Putting a big copyright notice on a photo merely serves to show you are an amateur. Very few Pros will, and they are more likely to put something in the middle of the subject to stop the image being used without paying.

There might be a semi-useful case if you distribute the photos to different websites that somehow wont have your information linked to it. But if you are showing photos on your own website/flickr etc. then its just stupid.
 
i agree on my own site there are no watermarks, on fb and other media i will put a corner logo on just as free advertising.
 
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