Peter Bargh

It occured to me that many photographers don’t protect their photos. Ok you can’t prevent people from nicking you pics when they are on the web, but at least by putting a notice up you may deter a useful percentage. Rather than adding an ugly stamp across the front of your photos you can also use the photo’s metadata to add a copyright notice.

There are four important fields found in the IPTC section and one of these that I’m going to help you with the legal wording.

1 is Copyright Status…set this to Copyrighted

2 Copyright I put my name…. Peter Bargh

3 Rights Usage Terms… and here’s what I put:
This image is the property of Peter Bargh and protected under UK and International copyright laws. Copying, duplicating, saving as a digital file, printing, publishing in form of media including web, manipulating, transmitting or reproducing without the prior written permission of Peter Bargh is strictly forbidden and would constitute a breach of copyright.
Feel free to copy this and replace my name with yours.

4 Copyright info url…link this to your own site…ideally to a page about your photo copyright. Make sure you add a bit about photos being available, should a potential buyer by looking.

If you use a catalogue program, such as Adobe Lightroom, you can make this, and keywording a much more automated and quick task.

Hope that helps.

It appears to be a common problem but finding a solution can be hard. I’ve been getting an “error loading w0572d42.dll
The specified module could not be found” message for about a year every time I restart my computer. At first I tried to find out what it was and couldn’t. So I clicked ok, the message went and the computer ran as normal, or at least I hoped it did.

Today I had some free time so I looked a bit deeper and found an answer by Malke Routh, MS-MVP to a similar problem. His suggestion was to download a “program from Microsoft that will help you stop the error messages”

I tried this option, not really understanding what I was doing but it worked. Here’s what I did.
Step 1
Download the program AutoRuns for Windows v9.13 from here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

Step 2
Click on the autoruns.exe file (it’s safe)

Step 3
A list of all the stuff that runs at start up will show. If you PC’s like mine there will be loads of stuff. Click the Everything tab at the top.

Step 4
Click on the binocular icon (search) in the menu. And key in the name of the .dll file that’s causing the problem.

Mine appeared on the list as “jvba05ee” and on the right “File not found: w0572d42.dll”

Step 5
Untick the box to its left

Step 6
Restart the computer

Job’s a good un! I no longer get the message. While I was in the Autoruns system I also found several other File Not found entries so I unticked them too. You can delete entries but I’m not confident enough to do that yet!

Spam…it’s a pain in the neck. My email in-box is full of it daily. Long messages about Viagra (or v.i.a.g.r.a!), dick enlargers, porn films and special wonder drugs. So it really got my livid when I installed PunBB on my site as a forum. Within weeks I was getting dozens of the same spam messages, along with video clips of porn. Well okay I’m not against watching the odd film or two, but I’m not about to promote it on my site! So I went into my admin section daily and deleted the posts and put the urls on the banned list. After a week this becomes frustrating. So I searched for an alternative.

First thing I found was some PHP code to fix the proble. Simple just find the file post.php and add some provided code in the area suggested. I hadn’t a clue what the code was about to do. But several people had said it worked for them. So I did it. The eager to see if it worked I posted a test message on my forums. Error on line 170! Doh…good job I backed up my original file…which was quickly returned.

Back to research…after several false journeys I found Akismet on a PunBB resource page. Here was a script written for WordPress that has been modified for PunBB and once installed works well…so far!

To install click on the download here link below the forum poster’s PS post (or here) which takes you to the zipped folder akismet_punbb.zip. Download and unzip the folder and follow the read me instructions.

You need a WordPress account as you have to modify the supplied PHP code that you add to the post.php file by changing the word AKISMETAPIKEY to your WordPress Akismet api key.

Now when I log in there’s an Akismet plug in in the admin section of my forum. I simply click on that to see the spam that’s been blocked – six in one day! And then click delete or accept! Gone for good and the public don’t see a thing…not that I have any visitors to the forums so far. But when I do it will be perfect!