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Try faq215-3101 for a clear explanation - disabling right click doesn't change much!
If you believe that stopping right click will help then try faq216-5090
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If you believe that stopping right click will help then try faq216-5090
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I'll have a little wager with you. You follow the "disable right click" tut and try anything else you want to protect your images and then put them online.
I will send you a copy of the image within 5 minutes of you telling me where it is!
There is no way, other than watermarking, to protect an image on the web. The user downloads a temporary copy just to be able to view it. None of the rightclick scripts will stop a determined person and in the end "print screen" will put a copy on the clipboard that can be edited in fireworks/PS/Paint or wherever.
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I will send you a copy of the image within 5 minutes of you telling me where it is!
There is no way, other than watermarking, to protect an image on the web. The user downloads a temporary copy just to be able to view it. None of the rightclick scripts will stop a determined person and in the end "print screen" will put a copy on the clipboard that can be edited in fireworks/PS/Paint or wherever.
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As you say there is no harm in disabling the right click, some people forget about the average Joes out there who use the net and would not know how else to save a pic from the net.
Though the more determined user would find out how.
However I think you should definitely consider watermarking the images, ie having your website address actually appear on the image, some people have this diagonally all the way across the image, or at least covering the main part of it. This deters people who are a bit of a dab hand with PhotoShop who could try to trim or blur out your water mark. Obviously though your watermark would be extremely transparent so it would not hide any of the image itself underneath. This way people will be put off from stealing the image as it would contain your web address, but if they did use your images in any way then they would be doing some free advertising for you!
You may be able to work out how to do this yourself if you have any sort of graphics program which allows for changing the transparency of items added to images, but there are applications out there which will take a batch of images you specify and add a watermark to them automatically. The only package I can think of off the top of my head is a package called SnagIT from Techsmith, which is a screen capture app in the main, but has this feature as one of its additional functions.
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Though the more determined user would find out how.
However I think you should definitely consider watermarking the images, ie having your website address actually appear on the image, some people have this diagonally all the way across the image, or at least covering the main part of it. This deters people who are a bit of a dab hand with PhotoShop who could try to trim or blur out your water mark. Obviously though your watermark would be extremely transparent so it would not hide any of the image itself underneath. This way people will be put off from stealing the image as it would contain your web address, but if they did use your images in any way then they would be doing some free advertising for you!
You may be able to work out how to do this yourself if you have any sort of graphics program which allows for changing the transparency of items added to images, but there are applications out there which will take a batch of images you specify and add a watermark to them automatically. The only package I can think of off the top of my head is a package called SnagIT from Techsmith, which is a screen capture app in the main, but has this feature as one of its additional functions.
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