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Watermarking...We haven't changed our minds

Permalink Comments (6)11 March 2008 at 14:29 by Alan Capel
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Underwater view at the National Maritime Museum - Image A9DXAB © Marc Hill
© Marc HillThere has been some speculation as to whether we were going to be true to our word and reintroduce watermarking on our images.

Scheduled for the first quarter of this year, as announced at the 2007 Contributor event, this is ready to roll out, all the images have now had watermarks applied but unfortunately we have encountered some performance issues. In simple terms, from our testing we have found that adding the watermarked images would slow the site down.

We are working on resolving this and we are confident that the end result will be a site that features watermarked images but is as fast as it has always been. I hope you can appreciate why we have had to delay things but rest assured we remain committed to the reintroduction of watermarks.

I can't give you a concrete launch date at present but we'll let you know as soon as it's live.

Thanks for your patience.

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  1. 11 March 2008 at 17:06 Christina Bollen

    Thank you :)

  2. 11 March 2008 at 21:40 David

    Will the announced watermarking also change the appearance of images on websites of Alamys distribution partners?

    It looks like for example your czech distributor is still showing HUGE previews without any watermarking.

    It would be a pitty if everyone concerned about piracy needs to opt out of the distribution sales program.

  3. 12 March 2008 at 02:47 Rosemary hawkins

    Much appreciated! Thanks to everyone at Alamy.

  4. 12 March 2008 at 16:23 David Cole

    Never doubted you for a minute !

    Should cover distributor sites though......

  5. 14 March 2008 at 16:03 Oleksiy Maksymenko

    Please could we also have this option for batch editing our images (It's very simple):

    A page with two text fields and three radio buttons.

    First text field: id numbers of images we want to modify (divided by space or commas or new lines)

    Second text field: a list of keywords (divided by space or commas or new lines)

    Radio buttons:
    1. Remove entered keywords from all keyword fields of the selected images.
    2. Add entered keywords to Main keyword field of the selected images.
    3. Add entered keywords to Comprehensive keyword field of the selected images.

    And a submit button at the bottom.

    Very easy to implement and a very powerful tool that can save lots of time.

    Thank you!!!

  6. 18 March 2008 at 18:29 Stephen Power

    Thank you, Alan. Do you have a date for rolling out batch keywording, yet?

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