blee280 Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 im creating a website to sell my products. i need some pictures for the different items, is it legal to take pictures from the website where i get my scents from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wessex Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 Nope. Unless you have their written permission.Cheers,Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lsbennis Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 You can get alot of the same photos that you see on the vendor's website at istock.com, when I was making my site up I got 99% of my photos from istock and some of them were the same ones that I saw on the vendor sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 I emailed a supplier and asked if I could use a picture on their site. They said yes. Why don't you email the supplier and ask? Then you would know for sure if it was ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SliverOfWax Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 Some suppliers give permission. For example (not fragrance), Levine has a notice on their website that it's OK to use their pictures of their products.I personally want to see a picture of the item I'm buying, so pictures of what a fragrance might look like wouldn't encourage me to buy a product. If you sell soap, show pictures of your soap. If it's candles, show the candles. Just my opinion, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitn Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 I would not buy unless I could see a picture of the actual product. I am not sure what you are doing with the photos tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 LMAO...I should clarify, I used the suppliers picture on a label, not a website. I still think that if you want to use a supplier picture, you should ask them, not us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravens Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Candle Science will not allow you to use the pics they have on their website. But they really appreciated my asking!Ask, the worst they can say is "No". Better still, try taking your own pictures (but if you're a "great" photographer like me :rolleyes2, you're probably better off paying for the pics - iStock, for example). Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comfortscents Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I was scrolling thru eBay looking for silicone molds and all of a sudden I saw a picture of one of my cupcake soaps...the seller was selling the mold to make the cupcake...I asked her to remove the photo, I contacted eBay...went thru the entire intellectual property...finally, I deleted the photo from photo bucket and she got po'ed at me...it's frustrating...I allow certain mold makers to use the photos of finished products I've made from their molds that's just common courtesy...one mold maker who've I've given Carte Blanche to use my photos, after I had pur based a mold from her and couldn't pour a decent soap from it I wanted to sell the mold but didn't have a decent photo of a finished piece so I asked if I could use her photo...she said no..I changed my username and password on photo bucket and told her to cease and desist using my photos...I still own that damn mold cuz I can't produce a nice enough finished product to post. No good deed goes unpunished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkymonkey66 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Wow sorry to hear that.Speaking of photo stealing, I just bought new a watermarking software program last week and it's great. Pretty simple and straightforward. I downloaded it from watermark-software.com and it was $24.90You can watermark a bunch at the same time, crop, resize etc. and change formats. You only get a license for one computer, but I just put the program on a pen drive and loaded it on all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlc26 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 (edited) ~~~~~ Edited January 6, 2011 by tlc26 re-thought my bad attitude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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