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General Category => General CG Discussion => Topic started by: dj_buckley on 2021-02-11, 14:09:45

Title: Protecting your images from being edited by clients
Post by: dj_buckley on 2021-02-11, 14:09:45

How do you all go about this?  What I mean is clients adding Insta filters to your work or doing some horrible saturation changes and then posting it online.  It drives me insane when we see our work posted and it looks nothing like the final images we submitted.  It makes it even worse when you get credited next to it.  Yes, I'm complaining about being credited, but mainly because if they've edited it, it's technically no longer the work I was once proud of?

Title: Re: Protecting your images from being edited by clients
Post by: TomG on 2021-02-11, 15:36:02

Not having been in that situation, but I would say the clients own the images so can do whatever they want with them. The only two options are

1) Request you not be credited unless its the image exactly as you delivered it, or you get to see the image first and say whether you want credited or not next to any use of that edit (could put this in the contract)
2) Add to the contract that they can't change the images (probably wouldn't get accepted, since they want to own the images and do what they want with them)