Image Theft - Watermarkup Blog

How to Report Stolen Photos on Facebook

Nowadays, many people complain that their images on Facebook are stolen and used for other purposes.

Stealing photos is one of the main problems users have to deal with while using Facebook. Many content thieves are willing to take your images and use them for their profiles.

But Facebook and other social media platforms also have solutions to solve these problems, and they will take any actions to remove the stolen photos. They will even ban the accounts that will steal other images.

Facebook and other social media platforms have their policies that are related to copyright and privacy. They have always helped you if you need something to report and their support team can help you if you contact them directly.

Someone stole your photos and used them without your consent. These are the effects:

The first thing that comes to mind for most people is the emotional impact … Read the rest

Types of Digital Watermarks

Nowadays, online content theft isn’t a new problem with Internet users and creators. People easily download and share digital products like ebooks, videos, and files with their friends. You will never know when other people use your products without your consent.

Images and photos are in the same situation. Images are one of the most popular file types on the Internet. Photos are very important to modern websites, blogs, desktop, and mobile applications. And creators often use watermarks to protect their copyrights and ownership.

Watermark can be understood as bits that are used to insert into images, documents, videos, and audios. The watermark can include the name, address, website, and information about the creators of the products.

The importance of watermark

In the digital world, watermark plays an important role in protecting photos and media. A company can watermark their documents as “Confidential” and “Draft” and other employees will know … Read the rest

4 Tips to Choose the Right Colors for Your Watermark

When it comes to watermarking your photos, you need to have a logo or it will be easier if you can have a design of how your watermark looks like in your photos. After that, when applying the watermark and logo in each photo, you can easily adjust to make your overall photos look great.

But with different photos, you may need different colors for your watermark. Because each photo has its unique content and colors. But the key point here is that you should choose the colors that go well with your photos and don’t get too much attention from viewers.

1. Things to remember when choosing the colors for your watermarks

The watermark should not be too obvious to distract the content of the photos. You can change the opacity of the color to make it more transparent. That will not affect much of your photos.
If you

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How to Prevent Your Website from Image Theft

In this digital era, nowadays everyone can copy and download images, videos, software from the Internet to their computers. And it is easy to duplicate or replicate the files from one version to many clones. Users can simply copy and paste to achieve the task.

People can steal your images from your website and social media accounts very easily. Some will use them for personal purposes, but unfortunately, many others will use the photos for commercial purposes. Many online stores are complaining that their product images were stolen and used by other shops. You have invested your time and money in the photos and now they are being used by others without your permission.

How people steal images from the web

It is very easy for people to download or save images from the web to their computers and drives. They can simply right-click on the image they want, and

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