Protecting your Images even further

[mickliddy]

I came up with another way to help safe gaurd your precious images from theft, but it may not be worthit in the end. Divide each image into 1x1 pixel blocks, one of each colour that you are going to use. Then, use CSS to position each block where it has to go. Combine this with a no-right-click script and the only way your images can be stolen is if they use print screen

[The Old Sarge]

Sounds a bit like walking round the earth to get across the street. :D

[felgall]

You'd have to keep your images really small since using that method would probably require about 50 bytes per pixel and so you'd only be able to fit a 100 pixel image all by itself on a web page without it becoming too big a page.

Also using that method would effectively convert the image into text making it easier to remove the watermark and so making it much easier to steal rather than harder.

1. Modify the stylesheet to remove the watermark.
2. Do a screen capture of the modified image in order to convert the CSS text back into an image.

[KDLA]

How would pixelating your image affect accessibility? Would you have alt text for each pixel? :rolleyes: How would a screen reader handle a hundred strings of identical alt text?

KDLA

[nitrexoxide]

A simple screen capture could grab the image and most anti right mouse click scripts only work in Internet Explorer, as I delightfully found the other day in attempting to save an image. In Firefox.