Pros and cons of watermarking

- [Voiceover] Watermarking.…Yes, no, I don't know, (laughing)…It's a topic that in all honesty…used to come up a lot more a few years ago,…in the earlier days of Flickr when people were…concerned about other people stealing their images.…I think now I don't hear as many questions…about watermarking, but there are some pros…and cons, and I thought, well, okay, it's worth…covering in this title…because it's still relevant.…Now here are the pros for watermarking…in my opinion.…

Not so much to protect your image from…being stolen, but as a branding tool.…I think if you're running a business, and you…have a nice logo, and you wanna brand your images,…I think a watermark is a good way to go.…Just don't make it too big,…don't run it across the middle of the photo here,…but yet have it on there so people know "Wow,…that's his or her photography business, and…that's pretty cool".…In that sense, I think watermarking is useful.…

And then if you wanna share photos, like I do,…I want other people to view them and share them,…