Roy writes: I was following Emily's method and philosophy this week with the copyright symbol only on the image and the rest of the copy right info in the picture file. I find the copyright symbols on the electronic images distracting too but necessary in this medium to inform the public that the images are not public domain. I will go back to using the copyright symbol and my initial again.Some photographers in the club I belong to are now signing their prints on the image like the do in painting. This all goes against the traditional philosophy of photograph where every element in the pictures should support the message and there should be no distracting elements in the image field. Copyright symbols and signature were on the matte. hmmm - maybe then a good way would be to add a canvas around the image and put the copyright information or signature on that. of course it's easily trimmed off by someone wanting to pinch the image but then, locks only keep honest people honest. and as I've said before, embedding the real copyright information into an image (and relevant exif data as well) is best done with a steganography tool karl