Photo safety?

[Steve P]

Ditto all that Mark said. There are FAR better alternatives than FB for photo sharing, especially if you want some semblance of security. There are sites, such as Pbase, where you can upload photos and place them in password protected galleries, though Pbase and sites such as Zenfolio are not free. Yes, watermarking can be an aid to prevent changes, ... but, and this is a big but, for a watermark to be effective, it has to practically ruin the aesthetic of the photo. In other words, it has to be large enough and obtrusive enough into important, intricate areas of the photo that trying to remove it becomes almost impossible. So it is a Catch 22 situation. Watermark it to the point of actually securing the photo, and ruin the looks of the photo, or make the watermark more subtle and less obtrusive, but then it serves no purpose for protection.

Finally, watermark or not, ANYTHING that is on a computer monitor, be it "protected" or not, is there for the taking. If you cannot live with that, then you have no business putting ANYTHING on any website.

steve