Over the next few days, we’re going to embark on a little project, one in which we take steps to protect our art. If you’re not adding copyright information to your images, you leave yourself wide open to having your intellectual property drained away! You need to think seriously about a plan to label, identify and register your images, so that the benefits of your hard work are coming to you. For more ideas and information on ways to look out for yourself, including instructions for registering your images with the US Copyright Office, visit our friends at Defend Your Art.
Today, we will take the first steps, in identifying ways to add copyright information to your images. If you aren’t already doing this, read on! If you are, I encourage you to read on anyway, as we will be looking at ways to speed up your workflow and automate things, so you can work harder on your image and not so hard on the maintenance!
When you open an image in Photoshop, and that image contains a copyright notice, Photoshop will recognize this and add a small © symbol to the title bar of the image, like so:
