Someone suggested that I put a copyright symbol on my pics.

I am terrible with computers, so I think I am going to need a lot of help with this. Could somebody tell me (in simple language please ;-) the ways I could go about doing this?

Right now all of my pictures are on Photobucket. Someone told me that Picassa has a feature that will automatically put a copyright on your pics if you want it. Is there a similar feature on PB? I have a really old and slow computer (might get a new one next year!) so it is a long process to do anything with uploading and adjusting pics.

I am wondering if the easiest thing to do would be to transfer them all from PB to Picasa. What do you think?
Any help you can provide is VERY much appreciated! Thank you
CMK

Pictures are copyrighted by their mere existance...email the site and tell them to remove your picture

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Don't put your work in a public access album, if you want to put it online put it only in a secure lockable password access album that you can share by use of a password. If you put it out there where everyone can see it and all the search engines can access it then there is not a lot you can do.
You can set up your photobucket to be secure and for personal use only and not shared or linked to. Most all have the option of do you want to share or not.

You can of course notify the site that is using your picture and tell them about it and tell them if they want to use it how much it will cost them. In this digital age proving you have the original is not as easy as it once was.
There are ways to embed in the code of the actual picture your identifying info.

Best thing is to not put your photos online period if you do not want someone somewhere to use or take them. There is truly very little that can be done once it is out there. Can you afford the time and money involved in trying to police them? What if it was stolen by someone in Russia or China? rules vary and fighting those kinds of battles are hopeless.
Only using very low resolution copies of your originals is what should be done with any image, that way when they are stolen all they have is a very low res image that they can not do much with.

you will see other available photobucket tutorials there also.

also under your account options there you will find an area that says Blocked users make sure that you have that set up blocked so that no one can link to or follow.

be sure you set your album settings to not allow copy and sharing.

Change your account to private, all your albums to private, password protect them with strong secure nonsense passwords and lock it down that is about all you can do with photobucket. And that is not fail proof because there are hacks listed on google for how to circumvent that too even youtube videos on how to do it.

I copyrighted my travel journals for fun and I had to go through the United States Copyright Office, paid around $25 dollars. It's hard to believe someone could get it done any other way unless photos are different from written matter.

DA

Good luck. I would be upset too if my pics had been pilfered and were being used for profit by someone else.

Go to the pic at P-bucket, and check the box below the pic and Edit above the pic.
Then choose
Decorate, and then text. There are several options for size, font, colors, placement, etc.

Of course it can be ignored - or by those who know it can be removed. The better cameras 'implant' a large amount of data