professional or serious photographersor any photographers how has a website w/gallery

[creative_one]

Hi Eveyone,
For those of you who are a professional or serious photographersor any photographer : How do you keep your photos protected ( from being stolen etc) on your own website that you either built yourself or had someone designed it for you? Any Advice?
If you do have a flash gallery how do you disable the right click so that people wouldn't be able to print the photographs?
Thanks

[RuthieMae]

Originally Posted by creative_one

Hi Eveyone,
For those of you who are a professional or serious photographersor any photographer : How do you keep your photos protected ( from being stolen etc) on your own website that you either built yourself or had someone designed it for you? Any Advice?
If you do have a flash gallery how do you disable the right click so that people wouldn't be able to print the photographs?
Thanks

I have a flash site through bludomain. I didn't have to do anything to disable right click. It was automatic.

You have to be realistic when posting images to the web and know that no matter what you do to protect your images, if someone wants them bad enough, they will figure out a way to get them. There is no absolute way to keep them from being stolen.

[Japaslavian]

Well you could watermark them. That seems to be the most widely used method.
I think the code for removing the ability to right click in flash is

EMBED src=transparent.swf type="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" quality="high" menu=false
bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH=120 HEIGHT=30

but I'm not positive. Just make sure to add "<" before embed and ">" after 30.
Disabling right click isn't fullproof though, as anyone can take a screenshot and get the same thing.
But in all honesty, you shouldn't really be worried about people printing your work if it's on the web. You should only be putting low resolution, low dpi images on the web which can't be printed well. Unless someone really wants a low quality 2"x3" picture I guess...

[Bluenoser]

I want to know what a "photographersor" is....

[eNZee]

yeah there is no true way to protect it. the only way is to not post at all online really.
ill be honest - i dont even bother. i have my pics on my webpage and people can right click it and save if they want (but they aint getting a highquality copy - thats for sure). even if you take the flash route (which i find is very unliked by alot of people) and you disable the right click and all that mumbo-jumbo, if someone truly wants your pic, they can take it. you can use a watermark on your picture to protect it but i find it very distracting and takes away from the art work.
all i really do is embedd my photos with my info and copy rights etc. which makes its difficult to alter but even if they want to change that im sure they can.
so like i was saying - if you dont want to risk it being stolen then dont post at all (but for alot of us thats quite unrealistic)

those are my thoughts for whatever its worth

[creative_one]

Originally Posted by Bluenoser

I want to know what a "photographersor" is....

i didn't have enough space to add a space in there. soory about that. u know how they only give u so much typing space.

[warlycunanan]

i have site too, but for me i put watermark on every pictures that i post..
also i -resize the pictures to lowest bytes... :-)

[eric_nelson]

One thing I have used with limited success is to catch those people steeling my photos....using a service (free) like TinEye Reverse Image Search is a possible solution but not close to full proof.

In this digital age you are damned if you do and damned if you don't, I say do it but be cautious.

Good Luck,

[fletch]

Disabling right click is the second most anoying thing you can do on a website (the first being having music start automatically). Right click has many uses other than stealing you images and disabling it is like treating every visitor to your site like a criminal.

You do have a few options to deter the casual theif without disturbing their browsing experience but as other people have said if someone wants it bad enough they can usually get it.

- Only post low resolution images - 600 to 800 pixels wide is big enough for any web viewing but can't be printed above 6x4 and even then will be low quality. It won't stop people using the images online but will stop potential customers ripping from the website rather than paying.
- Transparent gif image - You can overlay a transparent gif over your images. It won't affect the viewre but a right click save will just save the transparent gif, not the actual image. (This is very easy to get round once you know how)
- Small descreet watermark - This is a contencious one as some people don't like it but a small watermark can stop people stealing. Its like a name tag in your gym kit at school, easily removed by someone who wants to but will deter the casual theif. Just don't plaster it across the centre of your image.