Protecting Your Pictures from Image Theft

While we’re on the topic of product photos, it’s appropriate to address the issue of image theft. You may have had it happen to you—another eBay seller stealing your photos for use in his auction. This type of image theft is against eBay’s rules, of course which means you can always report the offenders to big brother. But wouldn’t it be better to keep the problem from occurring in the first place?

Template 7.14. Picture with Watermark

One way to prevent image theft is to place a translucent watermark on top of your product photos. As you can see in Figure 7.14, this is a piece of text or an image that ...

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