Originally Posted by inthecrack

As the director and photographer of inthecrack I feel obliged to respond to people's concerns here. I would agree with Dean that Angie was a little harsh on this or could have been a little more tactful. To be honest I am not concerned about what people do with thumbnails. The thumbnails on our own site do not have watermarks either. To suggest that thumbnails should have a watermark on them is a bit ridiculous. However in Angie's defence this affiliate was in violation of the TOS and we are not talking about thumbnails here but in fact full size images. I really see this violation as a trivial matter that I would have overlooked but Angie is new on this so it would be good to cut her some slack.

Now to enlighten people as to why that rule is in the TOS…. Branding is certainly a part of it but really only a small part and it is definitely not intended to short change affiliates of any potential click throughs. The fact is I go to extraordinary lengths to produce a premium product. There are not too many other producers that would fly all of the crew and models to exotic lands such as French Polynesia and New Zealand in order to get amazing locations. What customers and affiliates do not see is 10 in house trained editors that give every single picture 30 minutes of extreme detailed editing in such a manner as to not look edited. This does includes cropping to the ideal composition. I probably spend more on the post production than I do on the production. Therefore yes it does pick my ass a little bit when people feel they have the liberty to go and make their own alterations to the pictures.

I'm not likely to go and tell all our affiliates to quit altering our pictures but I would only hope that people would have some respect for the time and effort that goes into making a top quality product.