If you are like me and want to share your pictures with the great wide world, you might be wondering how you can make sure other people don't claim your work as their own. From my research, the short answer is: If you want a <i>guarantee</i> that no one can steal it, don't share it.
Okay, so now that we've gotten past that, let's assume that you are comfortable with some level of risk, but you'd like to at least make it difficult for someone to take your work. The following sites have various pieces of advice about how to go about protecting your stuff!
iPlus 360 has a quick explanation of 3 different ways to protect your work.
About.com has a page with many different methods.
BloggerStop.net has several methods. I don't agree with everything they say (I think watermarking is a good method, and they are negative about it) but it's worth a read anyway.
Note that watermarking doesn't have to be straight across the center of the image, the way it's shown on iPlus 360 above. That was just one example of how to do it. I would recommend not putting it too much off to one corner, or it can simply be cropped out of the way, but I'm sure you can come up with a compromise between those two extremes.
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