Is this message for Maria? Wasn't it her photo that was snagged? If so, I can email to her directly...or you can contact her through her page!
:-)
Are you still in TX?
Kristi

Yeah it's the same one as last year. I'm sure she'll see it on here. I'll email her if she doesn't. I guess they didn't learn their lesson. I moved a few months back to Arkansas., big move. I just set up my hippy bed out here before the cold weather sets in. I'll have to take a picture.

There's been a lot of "stealing" issues lately with photos. Not just here, but also in the "blog-osphere", if you will. A trick I learned is to use Google image search.

1. Go to Google.com and click "Images" in the top toolbar. Or go to images.google.com. Either way works.

2. In the search bar, there is a camera. Click on it (it will say search by image if you let your mouse arrow float over it).

3. You'll be prompted to search by image URL (which can be copied and pasted), or you can upload from your computer (which is useful if you're certain your image is being used without permission).

4. Upload the URL or your image, and click search.

Now, I've not tried this very often, so I'm not sure of how accurate it really is. It could help a little bit though. Y'all may find more than one person stealing photos.

From what I've seen, watermarking pictures has really become the way to prevent theft of pictures. I'll post a link and call it "Watermarking". I use this site for my blog. It's very easy to use. There are various options for watermarking... Text, image, or tiled. You can experiment with different options for each picture.

It's kinda sad it's come to this much effort to post things on forums and blogs...

Here is a link that might be useful: Watermarking

Kate,

Thanks for the link on watermarking..my pictures are all stored in Picasa and when I have the time I will see if I can figure out how to use this method..

Donna

Kate,
Would you start a new thread with your water mark info so that people might be able to find it easier!?
Kristi

PS...how's school this year?
K

Kristi,

I would be glad to do that! It may be late tomorrow night that I get it posted however. I've got homework to do at the moment. School's good. Grad school really knows how to kick you in the butt that's for sure! But, I'll survive. :) Of course, if I get my homework done in time, I might just get it posted tonight. I guess I'll see how it goes! - Kate