Best way to put an'impossible to copy'; photo on FB

Best way to put an'impossible to copy'; photo on FB

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silverfoxcc

Original Poster:

7,823 posts

151 months

Thursday 3rd August 2023
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I have some pics of a subject that i would like to put onto the ;fans; FB page.to share them. I have never seen any other photos in the last 15 years since i took them....

Although taken on a railway station, they were decorating a platform,that was in public use and therefore in full public view, ( and had verbal permission form the Duty officer to take pics around the station)..Oh. and could i legally sell copies to fans it could be a bit of an earner lol This time next year etc . i am a little bit wary that as they are of a well known franchise that the lawyers might descend and get heavy. Giving them away on receipt of P+P might be a way around it

Is there a way i can get them 'converted' to a a viewable size, but with insufficient detail that when they try to enlarge them it goes pixelated?





Simpo Two

86,669 posts

271 months

Thursday 3rd August 2023
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If the franchise doesn't appreciate free advertising, just select and blur the areas out in Photoshop.

Tony1963

5,172 posts

168 months

Friday 4th August 2023
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You’ll probably be surprised at how little you’ll earn. A tiny market and most people don’t spend if they don’t have to.
You could always try asking permission from any franchise shown. Are there any people in the image? Are the at all recognisable?

JonnyWhitters

786 posts

88 months

Friday 4th August 2023
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Facebook compress images anyway, but if you don't fancy blurring out on Affinity / Photoshop as previously suggested then you could re-save as a small jpeg file. There are programmes that allow you to select the % quality and size you'd like to save it as.

This allows you to display on a phone screen / monitor, but would suffer if you try to enlarge to print.

Best way is to blur out on the photo itself (obviously on a copy you've made).

Would also echo the point that unless the group is devoted to your subject, you stand to make very little from selling prints of it.

Nice to share for the community though