So I was on Twitter earlier when I noticed one of my pieces of artwork was mentioned…and credited to someone else…

Here’s the artwork: Here’s the link I saw on twitter:

Here’s the link it went to: http://fyfps.tumblr.com/post/44918953431/just-saying-i-would-really-love-a-shirt-based

and another person linked to the same: http://mythic-on.tumblr.com/post/46723389252/fyfps-just-saying-i-would-really-love-a-shirt

This was liked and reposted/reblogged by dozens. Yet, I wasn’t given credit by any of them. Hmm, you’d think with my logo and text on the graphic that would be enough right?

Well, just incase there is ANY doubt I did this, here are screenshots of my artwork showing them opened in Photoshop (still as PSD files with layers opened) as well as the Illustrator file showing the title, this also having part selected, again to show that I created the artwork).

This is the title, opened in Adobe Illustrator.Here it is with some of the elements selected for proof that I can manipulate this part of the graphic:Here are two of the files I worked on in Photoshop for this. The one on the right is active and showing the layers fully opened to show the work I did on the graphic:In this next screenshot, the near final is opened, again showing the graphic with layers opened:

And yeah, I watermarked the above graphic too so it couldn’t be outright stolen.

In the final (the first pic in this article), I added my signature logo and website logo as I do in graphics I put on the blog. Hmm, now let’s see how many people steal THESE pics and crop them, calling them their own…

Sorry, but I’m just a bit pissed that my graphic was thrown around without one of the dozens of persons giving me proper credit. I posted this on Waypoint around a year ago as well. Not to mention this is in my Flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23683004@N06/page7/
OR

GIVE PROPER CREDIT!

UPDATE: Since this article @chickswhoplayhalo gave me their apologies for giving the wrong credit. Though they were expressly mad for me creating this article feeling I was bashing them.With respect to CHPW, I called out several links here. Yours was the initial source, but not the only one I mentioned. If you feel upset about this, take that into account when moving forward and posting links to people’s graphics. I wasn’t bashing your facebook page. I was correcting a wrong done to me. 

-Sal