How can I stop my images being copied?

[Inkers]

I've seen a couple of sites where you can't copy the images using the drag and drop and right click and save and are only left with a white square if you do indeed attempt this.

Does anyone know where I can get this code?

[Daniel]

dunno but u could always cut the image into squares then put it on like that

[Inkers]

I would but uh... I have a LOT of images ^^;;

[Daniel]

oh lol ask jacob - he might now

[moojoo]

You can't. Worse case scenario just take a selective screen shot of it. Really nothing you can do to prevent it.

[snow]

Your best bet is probably watermarks - not infallible, but hastle enough that you won't get anyone just casually nicking them (at least not without a guarenteed link back )

You can add them automatically as you upload in most server-side languages, so having a lot of image to update shouldn't be a problem!

Snow

[Inkers]

Originally Posted by snow

Your best bet is probably watermarks - not infallible, but hastle enough that you won't get anyone just casually nicking them (at least not without a guarenteed link back )

You can add them automatically as you upload in most server-side languages, so having a lot of image to update shouldn't be a problem!

Snow

Do you know how to do the automatic watermark thing? Or at least know where I could find it?

[snow]

What SSL are you using?

[Inkers]

... SSL? I should prolly mention here that I'm still relatively new to coding ^^

[snow]

Aaah, sorry - I meant a server side language, i.e. PHP, ASP.net...

If your not using one, and if you were still interested, there'd probably be some site/freeware that did it for you - I think photoshop can?

[karinne]

With PHP you can watermark images using ImageMagick

[Inkers]

I'm not using one, I'm just using HTML

[snow]

It should be easy enough to put them on using CSS/javascript if you disable right click. If you really don't want to do it with a program that is... I suggest you find a site or program to run them through, should only take a minute or two! Disabling right click is really, really horrible for any users of your site!

If you're interested in getting using a program to add the water marks but can't find one - just post back here and I'm sure someone will help

[Ryan Fait]

As for the image when you try to save it and it's nothing but blank, that's probably an image background with a transparent GIF over it. But again, a screenshot would get around that. There's really no need to protect your images on the internet. The for the most part, the only people that copy them are kiddies with personal websites. That's something that is certainly not a threat to you. As long as you can prove the images belong to you, there are a myriad of ways to get people to stop using them if find someone doing so.

[mreine]

Stick a visible watermark of your name/company/logo or whatever diagonally across the entire image. Similar to this, but keep it less intrusive. They can then copy it all they want, free advertising. You have to overlap the entire photo though or they can just crop it.

[wavereel]

You can add a watermark to hundreds of images at a time in photoshop if you know how to do it. All you have to do, is go to your actions window, create a new action, then start recording (hit the little record button on the bottom of the actions window)

then you open a picture, paste your pre-made watermark .png wherever you want, then hit ctrl+alt+shift+s to save for web and save it whatever size you want, then hit close, and stop recording.

then you want to go to file>automate>batch.

choose a source folder
select: override action open, suppress file open options dialogs, and suppress color profile warnings, then say "log erors to file, and select a save destination.

then hit OK and it will add a watermark to all of the images in the source folder and save them to the same destination folder you chose before.

More good tutorials can be found at http://technohelpnow.com

[wavereel]

here's a great video for photoshop automation: http://technohelpnow.com/video-tutor...utomate-tasks/
good luck.

[moojoo]

While good, that is not what he is looking for. Basically the simplest method would be to use PHP to automagically handle the task on each image upload/directory upload of images.

[daygon]

what i do is in my css i make where the image is i div section and put it as a background image. so when they right click they just get the asic drop down with the view source and all that jazz. Try it. it works.
GO COLTS!!

[karinne]

Originally Posted by moojoo

While good, that is not what he is looking for. Basically the simplest method would be to use PHP to automagically handle the task on each image upload/directory upload of images.

Yep... I say so too ... and I've said so before

Originally Posted by karinne

With PHP you can watermark images using ImageMagick