blocking people from saving img

[romy]

i am not sure if this could be done by using java script, but i have a lot of images(photographs) and want to block people from downloading(saving) them. i have seen websites where right clicking img does not give you a choice to save img.
does any body know how to do this?

[David Harrison]

There is no way to protect your images, if the user can see them, they can steal them. You could try putting a transparent div tag over the top of the image so they cannot right click on it, so they would just go into the source and find the URL of the image.
So if you try and protect your source, they will have your page (and the image) in their temporary internet files folder anyway.
They don't even have to bother to try and find it anyway, when they can just press the:

Prt Scr
Sys Rq

button on their keyboard and capture the entire screen as an image and crop it accordingly.

There are several ways to get an image from a web-site and no ways to absolutely protect it. Sorry.

[zachzach]

well acually they can allways do the capture img thing, but half of pll dont know that so watermarking is good

and if the images copyrighted, just put copyright notices everywhere lol
Zach

[romy]

thanks for the info! i guess i just could not right-click on imgs on some sites...

[romy]

>and if the images copyrighted, just put copyright notices everywhere

i know... but it is annoying, but i guess i dont have much choice.

[David Harrison]

Speaking personally, I can't say that a few copyright notices would stop me if I felt compelled to "steal" an image. The wab is a big place, who's gonna know?

Anyway, happy to help. :)

[romy]

Originally posted by lavalamp
Speaking personally, I can't say that a few copyright notices would stop me if I felt compelled to "steal" an image. The wab is a big place, who's gonna know?

Anyway, happy to help. :)

yeah, that's another reason i was trying to find out how to protect it even though i never upload imgs in the original size which are in a lot better quality...

[David Harrison]

The point of the world wide web is for information to be shared, this kind of makes it hard to show people something but not not share it with others.

Sorry, but it's either show off your images and risk copyright theft or don't show them off.

[romy]

Originally posted by lavalamp
The point of the world wide web is for information to be shared, this kind of makes it hard to show people something but not not share it with others.

Sorry, but it's either show off your images and risk copyright theft or don't show them off.

this is for eventually selling the photographs online. to do so, i would have to show samples, but still be able to sell the printed ones. the imgs just have to be in low enough quality, so print out of them would be even worse...

[David Harrison]

In that case, the watermark idea is starting to look more like the solution. Create a semi-transparent layer of your site logo and lay it over the enitire picture in a photo editing suite. That way there's no chance of anyone cliaming the image for their own, (unless they steal your logo as well). I suggest making your logo monochrome (one colour, preferably gray), so as to not upset the overall look of the picture, but just enough for it to be noticed.

[Shampie]

If you want to watermark it watermark at least 25% of the image, a bit of photoshoppin' will make it way to easy to remove you logo else.

There might be somekinda way with vbscript to disable the printscreen button, add a bit of scrambled coding to you image and that should keep about 80% of your image safe.

Good luck!

[AdamBrill]

Originally posted by Shampie
There might be somekinda way with vbscript to disable the printscreen button, add a bit of scrambled coding to you image and that should keep about 80% of your image safe. There is no way of doing that that I know of... And even if you could turn it off the key on the keyboard(which I really doubt), I could still do it with Jasc, since you can set whichever key you want for that...

[Khalid Ali]

Its useless exercise to even try to save content that you put on the web,remember web is open source which means no copoy right stuff,and if you have problem with that don't publish on internet(only allow users who have paid subscriptions to view the contents)