Protecting Photos?

[signatures]

Just curious, does anyone know of a program to add to my website so people can't right click and download my photos off the site? i used frontpage but don't think there's anything in that website program. Maybe other site builders have it in their program. I was hoping there is a simple add on i can use to my site. thanks, dave

[natimage]

...If you find a simple solution...be sure to share it with the rest of us.

 

I had this same discussion some time ago, and pretty much gave up for the time being.

 

You can enable hotlinking protection, to keep people from hotlinking to your images. But...that doesn't solve theft. Let me do a quick search and find some topics for you...

 

Here's one of the threads I started that touched on several topics: Image Security

 

Maybe this will give you a good start!

Edited January 31, 2004 by natimage

[TCH-Don]

signatures,

as tracy says,

there is little to protect an image if I view it on your site,

it is then in my temp folder.

 

But who knows,

some one may come up with something

to make it too much trouble to make it worth trying .

 

 

 

 

I am moving this to Security Discussions

to help get better exposure.

[MikeJ]

There are some tools to make it more difficult for the casual visitor to steal the issue, but any even half determined person is still going to be able to get the image. If all else fails, the potential thief just has to grab the image from their browser cache.

 

You may want to focus more on watermarking the image in some way (google search for image watermarking for lots of links). That way if someone does take your image and use it, it's either more much more obvious, or they have to significantly alter the image to make use of it.

 

I'm not an expert on watermarking, but it's the direction I intend to look into when I start putting up some real pics.

[Alan]

Here is a simple solution, but their are ways around it, for instance if you have a 3-Button mouse, and if someone is smart, they are also in the temp folder. But most casual visitors might not know, it has taken me 2 years to figure out the ways around the script.

 

 

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1">

 

// NoRightClick v6.0

 

 

function right(e) {

if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' &&

(e.which == 3 || e.which == 2))

return false;

else if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' &&

(event.button == 2 || event.button == 3)) {

alert("No Right Clicking Please.");

return false;

}

return true;

}

 

document.onmousedown=right;

document.onmouseup=right;

if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);

if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEUP);

window.onmousedown=right;

window.onmouseup=right;

//  End -->

</script>

[KevinW]

Alan - IMO, disabling the right click is NOT a way to protect images. I'm not saying don't use it, just that it should not be touted as a way of protecting images or files.

 

I consider it more like a "speed bump" on a road. It will certainly slow down most people. But if someone wants to steal the image, they can get around the 'no right click' functionality in about 3 seconds.

 

To protect such works, all the major photo editing (Photoshop, Photoimpact, etc.) software now provide a way to encode a hidden digital signature on a picture. And this digital sig cannot be removed, even if the photo is cropped or otherwise edited.

 

Just my .02 cents...

 

-kw

[Alan]

they can get around the 'no right click' functionality in about 3 seconds.

Yes as stated here:

 

but their are ways around it, for instance if you have a 3-Button mouse, and if someone is smart, they are also in the temp folder. But most casual visitors might not know, it has taken me 2 years to figure out the ways around the script.

 

I use Photoshop to set my digital signatures, but I do not post my pictures on my sites. I use them in Chat Rooms and such. But for a site, the NoRightClick may atleast slow them down as you said, when I first got into the site making, a friend was letting me have a graphic and it had the norightclick on it, as a newbie it did take me a few minutes to figure out the way around it, as I have a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse. I also have the third button "Wheel Button" which enables you to sneak past the norightclick scripts, simply hold the wheel down and rightclick then let off and the rightclick menu will open. lol

[signatures]

Well thanks for all the input, i'm checking out some programs on watermarks to see how well they do....such as watermark.com

that seems about the best way to go for now....i assume it's better than just adding TEXT to my photos, which i've been doing.

dave ............ signatures.com

[arvind]

I don't like the disable right click because usually when I am troubleshooting code on my blog I right click and view source and that gets disabled Mad!!!