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Is there a way to right click protecting your photos?


10 years 5 months ago #308207 by PMurphy
If you are uploading your photos online, is there a way to make the right click protected?
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10 years 5 months ago #308223 by GeordieP
There is, but anyone with sufficent knowledge can overcome that. Even watermarks are no obstacle.

Consider either "shrink wrapping" or "slicing and dicing" your images before you upload them. With shrink wrapping, you add another layer which is transparent, like shrink wrap plastic, and when someone goes to dowload the image, all they get is the shrink wrap and not your image. Slicing and dicing is having your image in several parts which are put back together with HTML code. Hovering over an image will download only that part of the image. Google the phrases for more detail on how to do it.

I hope that helps.
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10 years 5 months ago #308241 by garyrhook
Oh, boy, here we go.

I believe very strongly that anything you put online, you lose control over. Period. You can not stop a determined person that wishes to purloin your work; if we could piracy would not be the issue that it is today.

While Geordie's advice is fine, insofar as it goes, it doesn't prevent a user from saving the entire page, images and all, and finding what they want. Even chopping an image into pieces only introduces annoyance, and more work on your part, but does not stop anyone who is determined.

Best strategy: choose what you share online carefully, watermark judiciously (also, will not truly stop someone, only inconvenience them) upload representative samples in low-res, low quality versions (e.g. 640x480 jpgs at 70% quality or less) and let it go.
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10 years 5 months ago #308277 by Ian Stone
Tin foil hat time :rofl:
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10 years 5 months ago #308343 by Lucky One
As stated, if you upload a photo online. There really isn't much you can do to 100% lock it down.
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10 years 5 months ago #308345 by Joves
Yeah Gary pretty much covered it. Size is your friend in this one. As for right click protection that stops the majority of people, but if someone with experience wants the image they will get it no matter what.
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10 years 5 months ago #308349 by Lucky One

Joves wrote: Yeah Gary pretty much covered it. Size is your friend in this one. As for right click protection that stops the majority of people, but if someone with experience wants the image they will get it no matter what.



Like taking a screen shot of your photo and cropping it. Messing with the Java settings in FF from what I understand too.

Nothing is safe!
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10 years 5 months ago #308373 by effron
I've had a couple photos taken, and the two I know about were no big deal. One was used as a subject of a painting (A feeding Hummingbird), and the original and copy were posted and the girl gave me credit. I emailed her and only requested she ask in the future, as I said it was flattering. The other was posted into a thread as an example photo, and I did likewise to the person that did the posting, just informed them they need to ask in the future. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it, and as Gary said post small files..... :whistle:
Why so serious?
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10 years 3 weeks ago #364595 by Stealthy Ninja
Drag to desktop pretty much kills most right click disabling functions. It's pointless unless you have coding as strong as sites such as smugmug. Even then they can screen grab.
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10 years 3 weeks ago #364597 by Stealthy Ninja
On that note. PLEASE RE-ENABLE RIGHT CLICK ON PHOTOGRAPHY TALK
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10 years 3 weeks ago #364623 by garyrhook

Stealthy Ninja wrote: On that note. PLEASE RE-ENABLE RIGHT CLICK ON PHOTOGRAPHY TALK


I started another thread in the support section on this one.

Why can they just not leave well-enough alone? And tell the users (that complain) that it doesn't help, so deal with it.
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10 years 3 weeks ago #365061 by Stealthy Ninja

garyrhook wrote:

Stealthy Ninja wrote: On that note. PLEASE RE-ENABLE RIGHT CLICK ON PHOTOGRAPHY TALK


I started another thread in the support section on this one.

Why can they just not leave well-enough alone? And tell the users (that complain) that it doesn't help, so deal with it.


The dude replied to your other thread.  They're looking into it. :banana:
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