Protect Photos

[erica79]

Is there any way I can protect photos from being saved and printed in IE and NS?

Someone told me it can be done in JavaScript but they failed to mention how. But any ways would be appreciated. Thanks.

[gyrbo]

There isn't a real way. But you can disable right click. Look at www.hotscripts.com for one. BUt this won't stop them from printing.

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by erica79
Is there any way I can protect photos from being saved and printed in IE and NS?

Someone told me it can be done in JavaScript but they failed to mention how. But any ways would be appreciated. Thanks.

Not really... Even if you disable the right click save and print options, they can simply do a print screen and save in Word, or do a screen capture with any decent graphics program.

[ghobro]

This example Javascript to disable Right clicks :

function lindung(){
if (event.button==2){
alert("Please see! Not more");
}}
document.onmousedown=lindung

you must put them on head section.

[puDDs]

Originally posted by ghobro
This example Javascript to disable Right clicks :

function lindung(){
if (event.button==2){
alert("Please see! Not more");
}}
document.onmousedown=lindung

you must put them on head section.

Disabling right-clicking sucks...there are more reasons to right click than just downloading, not to mention if i want a picture its only a minor annoyance.

I would never suggest that anyone ever do that.

What I would suggest is that if you're worried about your images, put a logo in the corner of them or something, so that if someone steals em, at least you have a chance of knowing. Or, better yet, if you can afford it, look at a watermark from Digimarc...then if someone steals your image, you have a very good chance of proving it and actually doing something about it.

[ghobro]

It's brilliant idea, but image editor can manipulate it.

[gyrbo]

But not mutch people even use an editor to delete it. They just place the image "as is"

[erica79]

There are over 10,000 photos. I noticed when you upload on ebay, and ipix logo is added to the photo. Is there a cgi or php program that will do something similar?

I have a site where we sell digital photo prints (like corbis) so we don't want people downloading the photos and printing them.

And no I don't have the money to invest in the digimarc service at least not yet.

[lucifer]

Originally posted by erica79
There are over 10,000 photos. I noticed when you upload on ebay, and ipix logo is added to the photo. Is there a cgi or php program that will do something similar?

it could be done using php,Perl,java,ASP(i imagine)

there may be some about already but you'd have to wait for someone else to respond

[puDDs]

Originally posted by erica79
There are over 10,000 photos. I noticed when you upload on ebay, and ipix logo is added to the photo. Is there a cgi or php program that will do something similar?

I have a site where we sell digital photo prints (like corbis) so we don't want people downloading the photos and printing them.

And no I don't have the money to invest in the digimarc service at least not yet.

In your case, my suggestion would simply be to put up low quality samples with the word "SAMPLE" across the face of it....there's no way you can put up the actual image without making it open to stealing.

The other thing you could tryi would be a program like BatchIt! (http://www.batchimage.com/product/batchitpro/index.html), which lets you add a watermark to many images at a time...it works well.

[lucifer]

just dynamically add your watermark to the gif/jpg on the fly.

this way you could change the watermark whenever you wanted

you could also cache them so just create them once as needed

you'd need url rewriting for that though

[erica79]

BatchIt would be nice but any Mac programs out there that does the same thing?