Image theft is a threat that we all face the moment we post any of our art on the internet. There are many ways to protect your work from being stolen, but most of them involve heavily manipulating the image or even having to resort to including ugly watermarks which detracts from the beauty of the finished piece.

One of the best and least intrusive methods of protecting your image is to include a digital watermark. The advantage to this is it is invisible to the naked eye and is difficult to remove from the image, unlike a signature or copyright notice.

Digimarc, the leading light in the digital watermarking world is offering all deviantART members a substantial discount on their digital watermarking service, MyPictureMarc!

MyPictureMarc provides safe passage for your images. It provides security in multiple layers – digital watermarks, image linking and tracking, online backup, and visual watermarking. Working with major photo-editing tools like Adobe Photoshop, MyPictureMarc guards your collection from unlicensed use, on-location mishaps, or system errors back in the studio.

You can also use MyPictureMarc to include visual watermarking, track your image across the net and they offer online backup for all your images.