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#1 BBGorB

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 11:45 AM

This is something you can do to prevent others stealing your entry:

http://www.toccionli.../ctrla/how.html

The colour in your image will be deteriorated, but showing a section of the uncamouflaged image or a colour board could be a solution.

I know it causes hassles to both contest holders and designers, I'm going to try it out in the shining monkey contest and see how people respond to it.
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#2 BBGorB

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 12:34 PM

It works fine for logo design contests, two problems though:
1. it only works in IE.
2. people can still screen cap the selected image =(

Press Ctrl-A to view the image
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#3 shuv

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 12:59 PM

i've seen a few tutorials like that, thanks for posting that one.

but, they got Guaranteed Design Contests now, so most ppl wont be too worried about being 'ripped' niow, may come in handy for those charity cases on the free contest section though :rolleyes:
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#4 BBGorB

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 04:45 PM

simplistic pointed out that the image can be viewed if zoomed out in photoshop, I 've played around with different images and came up with this image to use as the bottom layer, not very pleasant to look at as an entry but it solves the problem.
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#5 JTWedding

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 08:31 PM

another problem is that even when you hit ctrl+a the shown image looks like crap

#6 shuv

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 09:56 PM

just use your mouse cursor to highlight it, it doesn't look as mad if you just highlight the picture as oppose to highlighting the entire page.
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#7 BBGorB

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Posted 18 January 2004 - 11:58 PM

another problem is that even when you hit ctrl+a the shown image looks like crap

I know, it works better with logos (the image used below are for demonstration only, I did not design the logo, in fact I've never designed one before lol):

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I think the above shows the design without giving away too much detail, but at the end of the day, it only prevents others from stealing the image, ppl can still go away with the idea and reproduce the logo.

And ofcause like shuv said you don't need to use it if you are only entering guarantee contests.
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#8 vidiotscreative

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Posted 07 February 2004 - 05:04 PM

Personally if someone is going to steal work from my portfolio or designs I offer; it speaks wonders about them as a designer and a person. The files are dated when loaded to your server, as well as windows time stamping images.

I also make sure to post about the designs or put them someplace on my site to recognize and prove that it is in fact my work from the get-go. If then someone still copies the work, you can have a field day making sure no one ever uses any of their work.

There are some great sites out there, which basically black list designers for that kind of stuff; so doing it, is just asking to risk losing any chance of ever being considered a good or reputible designer within the industry.
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#9 SHANE-D-PAIN

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Posted 19 February 2004 - 01:32 PM

thats pretty good, i may use it i may not but it is useful

#10 verticalx

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Posted 20 February 2004 - 02:20 AM

I've seen this before but never knew how to do it, pretty cool




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