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Okey, you created a whole portfolio of digital imagery in Photoshop but what’s next? Of course, now you want your advirtisement and your work online. This is all well and fine, but what can you do to stop people from commiting copyright fraud and downloading your images and passing them off as their own - possibly making money from your hard work? There are a few technical solutions within Photoshop to actually copyright an image via its Properties, but this is doesn’t help when someone can just screengrab your art. Up untill now the tried and tested, and probably most effective,way of protecting your art from this kind of thievery is to add a watermark. Wanna know how? Follow the tutorial in Web Designer magazine. Your expert is Lee Groombridge is imagine Publishing’s interactive media manager. He has more than ten years’ experience in the digital arts industry. He knows his stuff when it comes to Photoshop and is aware of the dangers of putting your work online unprotected.