no. you need to own the photoshop file you made the full image, in order to prouve that is your work.. since you edited only 1 pixel and didnt created all layers, it's not your work. now, if you created the exact image with all the layers but changed only one aspect of it, you are not not ripping, but you must have the exact layers identified in the photoshop. if you have a group of lines, colors, etc in one layer, you can be acused that you ripped that part from the original artist.

i always save the .psd files to prove i'm the owner of the file. usually a little logo that i make can contain up 50layers. that's the trick to easy corect everything in photoshop. more layers, better-faster file. at least that is what i think. let me know your oppinion.

regards,
nakkid.

So what you are basically saying is that if I make an image in MS Paint, or something similar, and someone else makes the exact same image using Photoshop and a bunch of layers, not only would they not be ripping me, but I would infact be ripping them since I do not have the PSD file to 'prove' that I made the original?

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i'm used to work with photoshop. most of the graphic designers use photoshop to make website graphics. from my experience with other people, all of them save those files as "creator's proof". in my humble oppinion, i think is hard to make something profesionnal using microsoft paint. i might be wrong. :)

anyway, the idea i try to pull out is this: as long as you have a proof that you made that graph file, not copy-paste it, nobody can do something to you legally. let me know what do you think and please correct me if i'm wrong.

lol

very valid point

HM

LMAO. Check this message from his board:

That username is already in use. If you are imaripper and you have forgotten your password, click here.

:D

now he "changed" the design.. he took it from another site, but he gave credit.

Just to clarify, you have to alter an image 80% to make it original.

So if took one of cprompts buttons, I would have to make a significant amt of changes to it (80%) to then call it my own.

So if he has three blue lines in his button, i would have to change the color, add more lines, shorten one, twirl the next, add a gradient, maybe a bevel and change its shape, and it wont be considered a rip.

As far as I remember, you cannot do anything from a legal standpoint unless you have an actual copyright. I sincerely doubt that anybody here wouls copyright an image, or even a whole vB style. The person might lose credibility, but you cannot sue them.

And as for MSPaint, the best example I can give is this. Most of the layout there was made in MSPaint (I assume the banner wasn't), and the previous versions of the layout were too.

hehe this site is by far a rip :) http://stock.xxtax.gov.cn/bbs/index.php

Anyway, getting back to copyrighted images and that say you were to create a table heading image similar to C-promts, maybe different colours, similar shape, would that still be classed as a rip? as i have seen before someone complain of someone using gray buttons and calling them a rip. I am very interested in this a i am learning photoshop and i often take other peoples designs and see if i can create them with my skills. I don't then publish them but i like to see what i can do. Most of the time i don't come no where near close to them.

and i agree i think most people do you photoshop now adays because of the way you can get graphics looking

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