Digital image security.

jennihen

Hello, just showing a newbie how this site works and she has a question already . . . . She is starting a website and wants to protect her photographs - ie not let anyone print out enlargements of them.
Could anyone recommend either software (cheap/trial) of a tecnique.
Thanks in advance
Jen:)

steve1980

Watermark them using one of the many programmes available or use Photoshop.

gwyne

You can restrict all sizes you put online to low-res versions and yeah, watermark the poster above said - only this is not guaranteed it won't be ripped. Also protect it using Creative commons (again- doesn't stop it being ripped, but at least you've stated your copyright there)

googler

There's a method of disabling the Right-click; Save as... dialogue - it's used on some Flickr pages to prevent download of photos on there.

She should consult whoever is building the website to implement this.

jennihen

Thank you for the prompt and helpful answers - I didn't know you could watermark with Photoshop . . . not into photography myself!!
Thanks for the link Gwyne!

Stompa

googler wrote: »

There's a method of disabling the Right-click; Save as... dialogue - it's used on some Flickr pages to prevent download of photos on there.

Is it really worth it though, given that a screen capture is so easy?

jennikitten

Just to let you know, there are ways around ALL these things (even watermarking can be removed easily in Photoshop CS5). Nothing is foolproof when it comes to protecting images.

jennihen

googler wrote: »

There's a method of disabling the Right-click; Save as... dialogue - it's used on some Flickr pages to prevent download of photos on there.

She should consult whoever is building the website to implement this.

That would be me!!!:eek::eek:

chunter

I simply download the page in Firefox (save page) if I want a closer inspection of an image.
Very rarely even bother right-clicking.
Apart from the Flash stuff, works for more or less all images.

Agree as above, Far better to leave them as low resolution as possible, (eg using the likes of Imageready) so they're useless anywhere but on screen.

You can write your own name into the metadata of some image formats as far as I remember, so if they use the exact image on another website, it may still have your name on it.

But yes, if you're using a photo editing package, write the website name on a layer and rotate it 45% for each photo. You can use the opacity settings to make the layer visible as required.

A.Penny.Saved

Stompa wrote: »

Is it really worth it though, given that a screen capture is so easy?

Right click protection doesn't work! I can download images from such sites just by right clicking.

Screen capture is also an option with Firefox and certain extensions the complete webpage can be saved and any images cropped out.

watermarks can make it more difficult and with some practice, an image could be made to be very difficult to remove the marks even using PS CS5 which doesn't always do very well. PS CS5 can be ideal in the right circumstances and situations but for some images and watermarks it fails to make a good job of it. It's not the miracle that it is made out to be in this thread, it has it's limitations which can be taken advantage of.

You could use Exif jpg tags to mark your images or some form of steganography to embed copyright info http://steghide.sourceforge.net/index.php
http://www.fileguru.com/StePEG/info
http://lifehacker.com/230915/geek-to-live--hide-data-in-files-with-easy-steganography-tools

steve1980

The other way around the right click method is to view the source and type the src img name into explorer.