Does anyone have a good work around for using product images with water marks in the Google Merchant Center product listings?

[absoauto]

Does anyone have a good work around for using product images with water marks in the Google Merchant Center product listings?

One our shopping carts recently has it's listings 'suspended' due to image violations. The violation is the company logo, faintly water marked over each image to help prevent image theft.

Any suggestions? We really don't want to remove the watermarks as competitors will steal our images.

[MarketingChimp10]

Hola Margret,

I recommend using inpaint, it's Free and will remove watermarks from images. Here is a link to a tutorial.

Just for ethical reasons, I will mention that you should be careful removing watermarks on images that are copyrighted. Copyright infringement is a serious offense, and the penalties are RIDICULOUS! You can be fined up to $8k even for as a first time offender. You may want to consider just paying for the image if you are using it for business purposes. Check out this article from The Content Factory, and Read about how they got screwed by some crappy image of Nebraska.

Hope this helps.

B/R

Will H.

[Alick300]

Hi Margaret,

I'm running shopping campaign for Google since long time and i found it if you violate any shopping campaign policy your campaign will suspended and if you do repeat violation your account/site will be banned for any kind of advertisement.

So I would suggest you to not use watermark images, Google won't accept this and I don't think any one here will help/suggest you to violate the Google policy.

Hope this helps.

Thanks