Preventing Download of Photos

« on: June 19, 2008, 09:09:51 pm »

Robin G Coles Offline

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Preventing Download of Photos

Hi,

Is there a way to prevent people from downloading my photos, especially if I want to sell them?

Thanks

Robin


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« on: July 01, 2008, 08:56:06 pm »

Chef Groovy Offline

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Posts: 110

Re: Preventing Download of Photos

Maybe using some type of flash template, which would remove the "save image as" way.

of course, if they know the original filename, could still get to them. But at least stop the most obvious way


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« on: July 29, 2008, 03:51:07 pm »

juro

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Posts: 8

Re: Preventing Download of Photos

As soon as someone sees the images on the browser, they are already downloaded.

There are two ways to make them unusable without making them worthless for marketing purposes:

1. add watermark over the complete image (a small watermark in a croppable corner is useless)
2. subscribe to some form of digital watermark
3. show the image in a small resolution only

1. is cheap and easy to do but (imho) defeats the purpose, as the image does not look as good as possible
2. this costs money
3. makes it useless for professional printing

Any combination of the three is possible.


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