Using Watermarks to Your Advantage

These days companies grab every opportunity possible to promote a widget.

Coffee-cup sleeves, garbage cans… soon we’ll probably see LCD screens at intersections while we wait for the light to turn green. (Could be interesting, actually…)

If you own of manage a website with proprietary images, and you are considering protecting your images from download by using Flash or some other means to prevent easy-copying of your photos, consider not protecting them at all from download. To understand this idea, you have to realize that: 1.) images are never fully protected from download on the ‘net, and 2.) your site can benefit from increased traffic via watermarks.