Protecting an image

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Is there anyway of protecting an image on the net without somebody just picking it up and copying it to there website?

so far i have the ideas of combination:
flash image
disable right click
scramble html
put a message in the status bar at botom so you cant see the link(anybody got ideas where i can find code for this?)

Thank you
 
ive got water marks. theres loads of images and i just want to make it difficult for the end user to copy and use on their website, but the water mark is yellow and if it was put into photoshop via prtscn would they be able to transfer it into black and white image?
 
Only way would be to make it into something like a "streaming" realplayer or windows media player movie. The source would be hidden, couldn't be print screened or right clicked and saved.

Not worth it :)
 
i wonder if there would be a way of coding some php or somethign that would show a div or something over the image whenever PrtScr was pressed, something similar to a:hover in css but activated by a certain button
 
joeyjojo said:
Only way would be to make it into something like a "streaming" realplayer or windows media player movie. The source would be hidden, couldn't be print screened or right clicked and saved.

Not worth it :)
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Erm

That wont work, simply set the streaming options in the player to use software rendering instead of the hardware acceleration and bingo print screen suddenly works again.

Mike
 
Watermark, if its good enough they wont bother to remove it unless the photo is amazing. Then someone will spot it if the watermark has the right info, eg "image only to be displayed at www.###.com".. hopefully contact you and you have the right to prosecute for primary infringement on your copyright or if they are using it for business/commercial in a bid to profit from it, secondary infringement.

I assume you do own the copyright to these images.
 
best method imo is the use of a watermark and not posting the original high quality images but a lower res version that would be of no real use to anyone that would want to edit it etc
 
TheNuju said:
Erm

That wont work, simply set the streaming options in the player to use software rendering instead of the hardware acceleration and bingo print screen suddenly works again.

Mike
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You can also temporarily turn off Hardware Acceleration in your windows Display Performance Settings to achieve the same effect for any player.

If the image format is JPG, GIF or anything like that, the image will still be available in the browser's cache.

Trying to disable right-click etc is pointless because people can turn off JavaScript within their browser settings.

Watermark is the only way to stop commerical use, but this will make your image look bad unless you embed the watermark professionally (but then this won't stop people using it - it will only allow you to prove that the shot is yours).

The best way to protect an image, or any other content is to not put it on The Internet in the first place. :)
 
its not a photo, its an image of parts for bikes and ive individually put all details about each part and wanted to protect the image from being copied but i want people to view them to find part numbers etc
 
Slice it up into loads of pieces? It can be put together again of course but if there are enough pieces then it would be a pain! Image ready would give you the code so thats not a problem.

Doesnt stop screen print though I suppose.
 
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