Adding picture credits discretely

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  chipkal · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 12:41 pm

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  Hi all,

  I’m trying to incorporate image credits for my header into my blog. The best way I’ve found so far is a sticky post using certain options (e.g. comments disabled) to make it as unobtrusive as possible, but it still looks a bit clunky.

  Anyone have any better solutions? It’d be handy if I could keep my strapline, and a theme not too dissimilar to what I use now (Pilcrow).

  Thanking ye,
  Danny

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 7, 2014 at 3:03 pm

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  Does your theme have a sidebar or will you tolerate it’s use? If so put the credits in a plain text widget in the sidebar (or you could put it in a text widget in a footer widget area)

  You could also watermark the photo credit onto the image and upload the image again – small type in a lower corner should not look too bad

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  chipkal · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 11:02 am

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  Thanks – I’m giving the sidebar widget a go.

  Would watermarking count as an infringement of “no image manipulation”?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 11:05 am

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  Yes, it certainly would. You could, however, put the picture on a background colour and put text on that border that shows as a result.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 15, 2014 at 4:25 pm

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  good point on the “no image manipulation” @RC – I would have thought the original copyright holder would have accepted that – but the border is a nice way to do it also – thanks

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  chipkal · Member · Feb 7, 2014 at 2:37 pm

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  Yep, nice easy solution – thanks.