Stealing someone’s design is wrong, I don’t deny that… but I don’t think design theft is nearly as big a deal as stealing someone’s actual WORK and claiming it as your own. Recreating the cake without permission or without giving credit is one thing, but taking someone’s photo and pretending you did it? That’s far lower in my book. When browsing the web, and you run across YOUR photo on someone else’s page – and they’re saying it’s theirs? They’re saying, “Oh thank you!” to all the gushers who are praising it? YOUR photo of YOUR cake, taken in YOUR work space, with YOUR camera? I can tell you first hand, it’s quite enraging!! The audacity of some people! I found my daughter’s birthday cake on a website (her name is Molly and her middle name is Morgan, so we quite often call her Molly Morgan). The cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and it said, “Happy Birthday Molly Morgan.” I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it on someone’s page and she had it described as a triple fudge mocha chip cake with raspberry hazelnut filling or some such crazy thing. I was like, “Uh. No.” If someone uses my design, I hope they’ll be decent enough to give a shout out – but in the end, at least they did the labor, even if they didn’t have to use their brain. But stealing my photos? Aw hell no; that just infuriates me! Here’s my tutorial on how to watermark a cake photo using Irfanview (my favorite photo software, it’s free, safe, and simple). Hope it helps someone in some way! If you’re not watermarking, please start doing it NOW.
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