How do picture places tell if a photograph is Professional or not

[Kelemvor]

My wife is going through her mom's ancient photos to try to salvage any of them that we can. We are scanning them in on the computer and then submitting them to be printed at walmart. One of them got rejected for violating copyright laws because it's a professional sitting.

Is there some way they can tell this or do they just look at it and think it looks professional so it must be....

These picture are literally 30 years old and no one has ay idea where they were taken. But they want to get them reprinted so they each have one for when her mom passes away.

Is there some invisible coding on the picture somewhere? Does it just "look" professional and that's enough to not print them? Just wondering how this whole thing works.

 

[jcovercash]

Watermark in the corner maybe?

 

[Kelemvor]

Here's the picture in question.
LindaColleen75.jpg

Main thing is if I took this to one of those do it yourself Kodak picture maker things... would that let me make the reprints or is there something in the picture itself that sets off some alarm..

 

[myusername]

lol!
the kodak picture maker would be fine 🙂

 

[PurdueRy]

No it won't be, because most(at least where I worked require a passcode only the employees can enter in).

We tell by obviousness lol. That picture is obviously professional, we would not let you copy it.

Another hint is the paper it is printed on

 

[jacob0401]

just print online...i doubt they'll say anything about it...

also use PS or something to get rid of that dust...easily done...

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Here's the picture in question.
LindaColleen75.jpg

Main thing is if I took this to one of those do it yourself Kodak picture maker things... would that let me make the reprints or is there something in the picture itself that sets off some alarm..

looks like a professional photo to me. my dad is a photographer and that looks pretty much exactly like it was done by a professional.

they just go by looks unless its like a picture of the mona lisa that everyone knows or has watermarks or something like that.

i think attack of the show did a test on what walmart would print and not. they sent several photos, some pictures of famous paintings, watermarks, and stuff like that and very few got rejected. depends on the walmart that does them i guess.

 

[Midlander]

I think the shag rug seat is a dead give-away.

 

[PHiuR]

just cause the picture is posed a certain way does not mean it's a professional photo.
Usually it is the paper that the photo is printed on. check the back of the photo.

 

[Kelemvor]

I'm not saying it's not a professional photo because it is. But it's from 30+ years ago and has no identifying markings on it at all. back is plain white.

There's no way to know who printed it so there's no way to know who is allowed to give us permission to print it.

We did scan it in and send it to print online, that's where they saw it and grabbed it out and said we weren't allowed to print it.

Just looking for options on how we can get a reprint of a 30 year old photo that was professionaly taken but can't be proven by whom...

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I'm not saying it's not a professional photo because it is. But it's from 30+ years ago and has no identifying markings on it at all. back is plain white.

There's no way to know who printed it so there's no way to know who is allowed to give us permission to print it.

We did scan it in and send it to print online, that's where they saw it and grabbed it out and said we weren't allowed to print it.

Just looking for options on how we can get a reprint of a 30 year old photo that was professionaly taken but can't be proven by whom...

kinkos?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I'm not saying it's not a professional photo because it is. But it's from 30+ years ago and has no identifying markings on it at all. back is plain white.

There's no way to know who printed it so there's no way to know who is allowed to give us permission to print it.

We did scan it in and send it to print online, that's where they saw it and grabbed it out and said we weren't allowed to print it.

Just looking for options on how we can get a reprint of a 30 year old photo that was professionaly taken but can't be proven by whom...

You can try some kodak picture makers and hope to catch someone that doesn't care, but they should turn you away everywhere.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I'm not saying it's not a professional photo because it is. But it's from 30+ years ago and has no identifying markings on it at all. back is plain white.

There's no way to know who printed it so there's no way to know who is allowed to give us permission to print it.

We did scan it in and send it to print online, that's where they saw it and grabbed it out and said we weren't allowed to print it.

Just looking for options on how we can get a reprint of a 30 year old photo that was professionaly taken but can't be proven by whom...

You can try some kodak picture makers and hope to catch someone that doesn't care, but they should turn you away everywhere.

Technically I could tell them I'm the photographer and there's no way they could prove I'm not since the picture has no markings on it at all... hmm.

 

[jacob0401]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I'm not saying it's not a professional photo because it is. But it's from 30+ years ago and has no identifying markings on it at all. back is plain white.

There's no way to know who printed it so there's no way to know who is allowed to give us permission to print it.

We did scan it in and send it to print online, that's where they saw it and grabbed it out and said we weren't allowed to print it.

Just looking for options on how we can get a reprint of a 30 year old photo that was professionaly taken but can't be proven by whom...

You can try some kodak picture makers and hope to catch someone that doesn't care, but they should turn you away everywhere.

Technically I could tell them I'm the photographer and there's no way they could prove I'm not since the picture has no markings on it at all... hmm.

If you were the pro photog...you would probably have the negs and no need to scan..

 

[acemcmac]

what a bunch of assholes. I really hope you canceled your order for that.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
what a bunch of assholes. I really hope you canceled your order for that.

😕

You do realise there are people that will come in to test if your company is allowing people to copy professional pictures and the fine is...either $10,000 or $100,000...I can't remember without reading the pamphlet again. It's illegal, we are not being assholes.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: jacob0401

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I'm not saying it's not a professional photo because it is. But it's from 30+ years ago and has no identifying markings on it at all. back is plain white.

There's no way to know who printed it so there's no way to know who is allowed to give us permission to print it.

We did scan it in and send it to print online, that's where they saw it and grabbed it out and said we weren't allowed to print it.

Just looking for options on how we can get a reprint of a 30 year old photo that was professionaly taken but can't be proven by whom...

You can try some kodak picture makers and hope to catch someone that doesn't care, but they should turn you away everywhere.

Technically I could tell them I'm the photographer and there's no way they could prove I'm not since the picture has no markings on it at all... hmm.

If you were the pro photog...you would probably have the negs and no need to scan..

No because as a the photographer I only keep negatives for 10 years because then they start to degrade. This picture is 30 years old so the negatives are long gone.

 

[mugs]

Try Costco... I print professional photos there all the time. I got the rights to them so it's legal and all, but they're obviously professional photographs and they've never said a word about it.

It's really obvious that's a professional photo though...