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    Post on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest without giving away your original

    Narrated by an AI voice, with captions. Plays from YouTube when you press play. Watch on YouTube · More on our channel

    Social networks keep their own copy of everything you post, so no protection can follow your picture there. What you can control is the file you post.

    Pixel Sentinel's "Copy for social media" makes a copy sized for Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, X, Threads or another site, with your copyright notice inside (and in the corner if you want), and an invisible mark of its own, so a copy found later shows which post it came from. Copies are free and don't use views.

    Also: post straight to Pinterest from the dashboard, and why link previews of protected pages need an unprotected share image.

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    0:03 Why social copies matter

    Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, X and Threads keep their own copy of anything you post. No protection can follow your picture there, ours included. What you can control is which file you post.

    0:16 Copy for social media

    On the Images tab, click Copy for social media in the picture's row, and choose where you'll post it.

    0:23 Sized for the platform

    The copy is made only as large as that platform shows. So your full-resolution original never leaves your hands.

    0:30 Copyright notice

    Your copyright notice is written inside the file, and you can show it in the corner of the picture too.

    0:37 Invisible mark per post

    Download the copy and post that file. Each platform's copy carries its own invisible mark. If your picture turns up somewhere else, a trace or a patrol tells you which post it was taken from, so make a separate copy for each platform.

    0:52 Post to Pinterest

    On Pinterest, you can skip the download. Connect Pinterest to your account, and post the protected copy straight to a board from your dashboard. Only the protected copy is ever posted, never your original.

    1:06 Link previews

    One more tip. When you share a link to your own page, the preview picture is fetched by a bot, so it shows the scrambled copy. Set your page's share image to an unprotected picture, like a small teaser.

    1:19 Wrap-up

    Anyone can still screenshot what you post. So keep your best, full-size work on your own protected site, and link to it from your posts.

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