Webiste Photograph Protection

Hi,

I am going to write a diving website and on it will be some photos that I
have taken underwater and I have heard that people just collect them and
pass them around and I don't want that to happen. What is the best way of
stopping people just doing left click and save picture?

Steve

"Steve Carmichael-Timson" <stevect@dont.even.bother.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am going to write a diving website and on it will be some photos that I
> have taken underwater and I have heard that people just collect them and
> pass them around and I don't want that to happen. What is the best way of
> stopping people just doing left click and save picture?
>
> Steve
>
>
>

The truth is, if you don't want people to steal your photos, don't put them
on the internet, period. Disabling the right-click still leaves plenty of
options to steal your photo ranging from a screen capture, Windows Menu
shortcut key (put your cursor over a photo and hit the Menu key next to your
right-hand CTRL key) and the same options come up as right-click.

You can put a watermark on the image, but this will degrade the image. You
can frustrate people by putting the image into the background of a table
cell, then make a transparent image the same size, directly over it. When
they save the image, it's blank!

"The Disney Source" <webmaster@disneylandsource.com> wrote in message
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> "Steve Carmichael-Timson" <stevect@dont.even.bother.com> wrote in message
> news:c6h9i6$48p$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am going to write a diving website and on it will be some photos that
I
> > have taken underwater and I have heard that people just collect them and
> > pass them around and I don't want that to happen. What is the best way
of
> > stopping people just doing left click and save picture?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
>
> The truth is, if you don't want people to steal your photos, don't put
them
> on the internet, period. Disabling the right-click still leaves plenty of
> options to steal your photo ranging from a screen capture, Windows Menu
> shortcut key (put your cursor over a photo and hit the Menu key next to
your
> right-hand CTRL key) and the same options come up as right-click.
>
> You can put a watermark on the image, but this will degrade the image. You
> can frustrate people by putting the image into the background of a table
> cell, then make a transparent image the same size, directly over it. When
> they save the image, it's blank!
>
Excellent idea. I will do that. As you say, it's impossible for people to
stop the photos being ripped off but there are things that can be done. I
also thought of putting copywrite notices that were small enough not to see
when on the web but if there is a complaint I can prove that it's mine.

Steve




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