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Jon Glaser

8 Years Ago

Instagram Watermarks? Low Res File?

I am wondering if other artists here that use the site place watermarks on their images? Or do you use an image size that is so small that it does not matter? I am about to ramp up instagram and use Schedugram to market my art on it.

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Jon

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Shelby Young

8 Years Ago

I usually use a watermark (my own not FAA's) as well as a low res file. However, sometimes I don't even bother with the watermark.

 

Steve Goad

8 Years Ago

I've done both, it's kind of a catch-22 and I often struggle with deciding which is best. I didn't worry about watermarking until I started getting emails about people selling prints of my work on E bay. Sad thing was they were low res copies that they copied from one of my websites, so not only were they selling but they were selling poor quality copies. At the time I thought 1200 pixels was plenty low but anymore I try to keep copies I show in the 700 pixel range.
I started watermarking my images and then people started complaining, I mean to the point where my work would be featured on popular sites and the watermark seemed to be the focus instead of the art.
I guess we just have to find the balance between presentation and protection. I don't think you have to worry too much about instagram though since your art is usually cropped into a square and low res. Check out the app "Layout" it's designed to take multiple images of your work that you can customize to fit perfectly with Instagram. I use it to merge a distant and up close shot together, seems to work rather well.
Example:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAuagAqo6vn/

Low res is usually the safe bet.

 

Edward Fielding

8 Years Ago

If its a snapshot - no. If its something I sell - yes. I put my url on so that people can find me.

https://www.instagram.com/fieldingedward/

 

Paul Gulliver

8 Years Ago

What I do sometimes for both instagram and twitter is, using my AW site, create a frame around the image and then take a screen shot. Using my image organizer (Acdsee) I add the web address to the database. This only has to be done once for each image, it's then easy to share, using hootsuite, to twitter, instagram and facebook in one go. Being a fairly small image, around 500 pix wide its unlikely to get copied but its big enough to encourage potential customers to click through (on twitter and fb )
One of the problems with instagram, I don't think links in the comments are clickable.

 

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