help w/ protecting photos on a web site

[Bertha Venation]

I have a personal web site w/ photos I have taken. I don't want anyone to be able to copy a few of my photos. They're copyrighted, but I still don't want them winging their way across the internet.

I have right-clicked on others' photos and saved them to my hard drive. Yes, I have stolen photos. :( I don't want mine stolen. Does anyone know how to "right-click-proof" a photo on a web site?

[TrogL]

1. Embed it in a pdf

even then they can still "print screen" it to the buffer and crop it with a graphics package.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. It is not really possible. I have seen lots of people try, there is

a way around all the ways to do it.

It is inherent in how HTTP delivers pages to your computer, essentiall every browser downloads every bit of graphics each time and stores it in a cache.

Even making them PDF is no good, because if someone has the right program, they can disassemble the PDF and take the picture anyway.

You could put small thumbnails on the page, and larger pix have your name half-toned across the whole picture, but then they are ugly.

Best bet... don't worry about it.

[wingnut]

13. You CAN

deter the casual copier, though.

disabling the right-click keeps me from copying pictures on a whim.

Of course, if I REALLY want them then I just dump the entire screen and crop the part I want.

[Philostopher]

3. Here's a link to an article about it.

http://www.rediff.com/search/2001/sep/27know.htm

Disabling right-click -- it's in the first quarter of the article. There may be other solutions, but this was the first I found on a quick Google. If nothing else, at least it may offer you other resources to check, if this doesn't work for you.

[nostamj]

4. i found this (and more) with a google....

this issue is important to me, too, regarding the graphic design website i'm developing. i want to disable right click. it may not protect 100% but...

assuming this is legit code (i haven't had a chance to try it), I would replace this line:

var msg="Right Click Disabled!";

with:

var msg="Material on this website is subject to copyright protection. RightClick options have been disabled.";

help on this would be greatly appreciated. (i'm working in Dreamweaver)

tia!

====== the code

<script language="JavaScript">

var msg="Right Click Disabled!";
function disableIE() {if (document.all) {alert(msg);return false;}
}
function disableNS(e) {
if (document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!document.all)) {
if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {alert(msg);return false;}
}
}
if (document.layers) {
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=disableNS;
} else {
document.onmouseup=disableNS;document.oncontextmenu=disableIE;
}
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(msg);return false")

</script>

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. That will work to disable right click....

just be aware that in order for the photo to be seen at all, it already HAS been downloaded and saved in a cache.
As long as you know this, you are on the true path to inner peace about images on the internet.

[nostamj]

8. i DO understand....

om manai padme oh leave my gifs alone..................

and thank you

[LibertyorDeath]

6. Hi try this it's the only way I know of protecting pics

http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/no-right-click.html

I'm sure people can get around it but they need the know how.

[arcos]

7. Save the pictures as Flash...

You don't need to know much Flash to do this... just create a new document with the size of the picture, and copy/paste it from your graphics program to Flash. Export it as .swf, and you will be able to embed them in the HTML document, but no one will be able to save them.

It is better than to disable right click because a lot of people use it to open links in new windows. Of course, as someone mentioned earlier, it is possible to take a screen shot with PrtScr and paste it in a graphics program.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. Depends on what program you use to make the flash too

Cause I have been able to pry pix out of .swg's before too.

[Bertha Venation]

9. I appreciate everyone's ideas but I should've given you more info:

I am a raw and untalented beginner and am using a program called Trellix, provided by my ISP, to build my site in space also provided by my ISP.

This is my site http://home.earthlink.net/~notheidi63/index.html -- I don't think it gives any pop-ups, nothing like Angelfire or Yahoo free sites.

Maybe I shouldn't have asked this question. :shrug:

But I appreciate everyone's suggestions very much, and tomorrow will see if I can find a way to incorporate them. Much grass!

[ET Awful]

15. I don't know how to protect your pics, but may I just say that

the pic of Cocoa in a jeans pocket is priceless :) :) :)

[nostamj]

11. going a little further.... PrtScrn & PDF questions...

it's hard to imagine that the quality of an image cropped from a PrtScrn command would be good enough to endanger a copyright.

isn't it?

if someone can fill in more about capturing a "high quality" graphic from a PDF document, I'd be interested. (though I don't plan any PDF pages for my site at this point...

[BlueJazz]

12. If you don't want the average user to use your pictures

...there are ways to "slow them down"

Having said that, There is really no way to stop folks who are even
half-way computer savy from extracting your images.
I (and many others) can rip flash files or what have you, apart.
I'm sorry to report that your quest to keep others from using your
pictures is in vain....sorry...that's just the way it is...

[SoCalDem]

14. Most people will not find your pictures except by accident or

if you give them the link.. I have sent e-mails to parents who have put pictures of their kids up for Grandma to see, but I was afraid that they were also open to perverts.. One site was a family site that actually had a map and phone number listed to the "annual barbeque".. and then page two was full of pictures of their two little girls in the bath tub, or at play.. They did remove the pictures, but I shudder to think of what would have happened if some weirdo got that information..

[Kamika]

16. It IS POSSIBLE

I been to websites where i tried to rightclick links and photos and it would say like "no right clicking here!" etc