Instagram

[Rudy]

Evening fellow photographers, I have started an Instagram account @PhotographyWales and just wondering is there an efficient way of watermarking my images for a bit of copyright protection? Being a mobile app only I have to transfer the images from my camera to to Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to then upload them.

Any tips welcome

 

[Keith W]

Any tips welcome

Don't use instagram

 

[Rudy]

Go on... what else would you suggest? I'm posting mainly for my own enjoyment and to see how people rate my work, but also to hopefully create a reputation for myself within Wales.

 

[PSILVERMAN]

Process your shots as normal, watermark as you normally do, upload to a Dropbox folder, download onto phone then upload to Instagram.

 

[sirch]

Perhaps easier to use Google Drive on Android but ^^ what Phil said ^^

 

[ianp5a]

There are free watermarking apps. I've never used one. Nor Instagram.

 

[Jayst84]

You can post directly from Dropbox to Instagram. So as above, use Photoshop, Lightroom, whatever you normal process with - pretty much everything has the ability to add a watermark. Then upload and away you go.

 

[Rudy]

I don't process images so that's not an issue, everything I shoot is all within camera. I've never watermarked before so was unsure how.

 

[UaeExile]

Honestly I don't have a clue what your shooting but I don't see the point watermarking for Instagram. Surely the files are compressed to hell once their uploaded anyway?

I follow 200 of the best photographers (amateur and professional) on Instagram and I don't think I've ever seen anyone watermark their images. I'd probably go as far to say that if they did I'd probably unfollow them

 

[neil_g]

yeah they're pretty compressed. plus i think they're limited to 1080px anyway.

 

[Jayst84]

More for branding when people inevitably knick them. I don't bother though. Fact of life these days.