Photo question

[cdub]

My photography skills were employed by my boss for the purpose of photographing some of our products for use in promotional materials. However, photography is not part of my normal job description with the company and I will be requesting extra compensation for the service. I need to give my boss the digital photos on a CD for him to view, but I need a way to ensure he won't simply copy and paste them to his computer and use them without my permission (this would not be out of his character). Is there a way to "lock" the files or put some sort of restriction on the files so they cannot be copied from the disk. I've seen this on photos on web pages and such but I don't know how to do it. Can anyone help me on this one?

 

[SlipperFan]

Are you using Photoshop? If so, you can use Digimark under Select. Or you can use the type tool to type ©yourname over the image somewhere.

 

[Gilda]

alt0169 =© also

 

[Candace]

How computer literate/skilled is your boss? Aren't there CDR Cd's that are readable only? I thought files on CDR's couldn't be copied, deleted etc. hence the readable only concept. Of course, I'm sure there's software and tricks to make those not 100% safe either. Also, anyone who is proficient in photoshop can delete names and watermarks on photos. It comes down to motivation, skill and time I suppose and most people won't go to the trouble of stealing something they have to work at.

 

[paphjoint]

If you can "read" the file then you can also copy it

 

[cdub]

Thanks guys! I ended up just printing a sheet of thumbnails for my boss to view. This way I keep control of who gets the high res images and when. It turns out that he is not very computer literate at all and thinks "photoshop" is the place down the road that prints 1hr photos.

 

[Ernie]

Are you using Photoshop? If so, you can use Digimark under Select. Or you can use the type tool to type ©yourname over the image somewhere.

What the heck version of Photoshop are you using??? No Digimark under Select in 6.0 for Windows. Are you a Mac-ster???

-Ernie

 

[Candace]

Ernie, it's not under select it's under filter. And Dot can maybe elaborate, but I don't believe using Digimark is free.

Edit:http://www.digimarc.com/register/ I don't think this is a service anyone but a professional photographer would want to use.

 

[SlipperFan]

Oops -- Candace is correct. It's under Filter.

Ernie, I am a Mac user, and I have Photoshop CS3.

I've not used Digimark, myself. But from what I can see, you can use their standard one for free. If you want to personalize it, that's when you pay.