Image Copyrights?

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Is it true if you alter, resize, or change a feature of an image in Photoshop it removes copyright infringement?

I'm not talking about images of people, just graphics and landscapes, etc...

Thanks.

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#website design #copyrights #image
  • No, it is not. That's a myth. Google it.
  • I have no idea where you got that idea.

    That's like asking if you can rip off a best selling book and claiming it as your own if you change the title of the book.
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    • There are plenty of places out there to get free, legal stock photography, although the quality seems to be dodgy. One thing I can tell you is that if you do use pirated (for lack of a better word) images, do not use anything from Getty Images (including iStock), as Getty is known to use legal tactics so extreme and unfair that some have called them unethical. Read more here.
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    • Actually, I had always just assumed it was illegal, and I did Google it after posting here, proving my assumptions were correct.

      The idea wasn't an idea actually, it was a statement made by someone who was showing me their Photoshop skills (*which far surpasses mine, lol) and he was telling me that if you alter, resize, or change the image in some significant way - it removes copyright.

      (*Obviously, him having heard this in his 'college' courses, was a lie!, - I needed to know.)

      And as an artist, and a writer, and maybe one day a photographer too, I'd never knowingly rip off anybody's anything.
  • It sounds silly and you're right to have been wary of his claims...

    R.I.G.H.T.S.
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    Image Copyrights?

    Is it true if you alter, resize, or change a feature of an image in Photoshop it removes copyright infringement? I'm not talking about images of people, just graphics and landscapes, etc...