I've seen this before... We are here to share our knowledge and make some money at the same time.. Be carefull...
All it takes is a little common sense really, you just need to apply some every day rules to your work. You wouldn't leave your apartment unlocked for anybody to walk in and use it, would you? You need to protect yourself as much as possible in business, whether it's for $20 on here or a $20k project elsewhere, your methods should be the same. After all, nobody likes to be the victim of theft. Just make sure you apply your watermark. The best thing to do is to make a watermark and define it as a pattern in photoshop, then all you need to do is go to Edit > Fill > Pattern and use that, it takes 5 seconds and will protect your work from thieves. Of course, there's no way of totally protecting your work, because people are able to re-create your work if they really want to but why not use this simple, easy and quick method of protecting yourself?
Yeah , a robber is a robber but i have an idea maybe made CH think again before they run away what about making sticky topic called " Black List " and every CH run away only one time will find his name on the topic and if he made it again about 3 more times or something like that he cant make any more topics here think about that
As a recent contest holder I don't like the watermark, makes it hard to see the design. Entrants should research the CH and be able to tell if it is genuine or a kid & base their watermark on that. I think ANY genuine business will do the right thing.
@i7-GFX i think if he does it once he should be banned, why the wait. @Bushranger i met people with 0 traders that pays wiothout a problem, and others with high traders that dont, so you can never know.