Originally Posted by ddt0725
Well it's a personal preference. Others might actually like the painting effect very much. So you'll have to see for yourself.
Yes you are [] It must be contracted if you're selling the copyrights with it.
Well it's a hard thing. You're pictures are automatically copyrighted, because you are the artist. However some people might make advantage of it without you knowing it. You cannot do much about this. If the guy was really selling the prints and you would know it, you might get to sue him, but if you don't see it, there's nothing you can do.
The best thing for you to do is not to give away full resolution files of high quality jpeg or other files. That way people can't make large size prints without having serious loss of detail and quality. For a desktop 1200 pixels wide or so is often large enough to fill a desktop. (Depending on the size and resolution of the screen of course) If your image would be 2:3 ratio the height would be 800 pixels. 800*1200 = 960000pixels...in other words, the file would be less than 1 MP. And therefor it would be suitable for small prints, but definitely not for larger ones like posters.
I think the "large" picture standard on flickr is 1024 pixels wide, so you might want to take that as a standard.
This is pretty much all you can do. Be safe to your photos.
And to be honest if someone at the other side of the world would have printed one of my images on a poster for home-use, I would actually be flattered [A]
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