Hi all! I don't know about you but as a seller, I am furious with the new regulation from eBay that any text on a photo in a listing will be removed beause it will contravene the new rule to take effect by February 2014. Sadly, I have taken hundreds of photos, spent time taking at least 10 shots per item, choosing the best photo, taken the time to crop it, insert a border to make it nice and finally insert a small text of my userID over the photo to prevent others from copying and using my photo. With the new eBay rule, borders and any text are no longer allowed. Watermarks are allowed but it has to be at a corner without obstructing the photo. I have used eBay's option to watermark my photo with my userID as a teat on one of my listings. Yes, it shows my userID on the left hand corner but when you click to enlarge the photo, the watermark is not there and if someone right clicks on the photo, he/she can copy and save the photo as his or hers. I don't want to spend time going through listings and reporting to eBay when someone has stolen my photograph. I have even come across photos of mine in the past when my text which was previously shown on a corner, "painted" over using photoshop. Best of all, if the photo was stolen from me and used on a USA eBay site for example, I was told there is nothing else eBay could do. That is the reason why I inserted a small text over the photo so that it makes it difficult for people to try to manipulate the photo. Trust me when I said I have seen a person done so before as I could see the blurred colour matching and when I politely told the seller that at least she could ask for my permission, communication ceased immediately. Sorry for the blabbling... so now with the new upcoming eBay regulation, no one in eBay can offer me a solution in protecting my photos other than to tell me to use their watermark option and to report to them if someone did steal my photo. Does anyone out there have a solution that can protect your hard work and abide to the new eBay regulation as well? Thanks very much!
