Is there a way to prevent coping images from my store??

[Elazar]

Hi pals !

 

Is there a way,please, to prevent coping images from my store??

 

Thanks for any help. :)

 

Regards,

Elazar

[tegralens]

Hi pals !

 

Is there a way,please, to prevent coping images from my store??

 

Thanks for any help. :)

 

Regards,

Elazar

I find it that adding a watermark to your images will be better because there is no 100% way to prevent people from copying images. Hope this helps

[boxtel]

Hi pals !

 

Is there a way,please, to prevent coping images from my store??

 

Thanks for any help. :)

 

Regards,

Elazar

 

the only way is to remove them.

[mariavargas]

:rolleyes: True, true... but you can deter them, or trick them....

1.) You can disable the right click button, so they can't easily save them and a message pop-up that says, 'wahtever you want - these are copyrighted by me"

2.) You can also add a snippet of code so that if they try to print the page with images, they get a print-out with your "private message"

 

Go to http://dynamicdrive.com and search their javascript codes, they're great!

:P

MV

 

the only way is to remove them.

[jasonabc]

There is no way to acheive this. As the other posts have said though - there are several methods that make your images harder to get at - which will deter most casual surfers.

 

If someone really wants your images though there is nothing you can do to stop them.

[Gil_e_n]

And removing the right click button drives away everyone that uses it for other reasons (on computers where I don't have mouse gestures installed, I use right-click, back rather than go half-way across the screen for the back button. Because I am just that lazy.) Also, people who browse without javascript won't even notice. I once read a blog for half a year before realizing that they'd disabled right-click. At which point I quit because I hate it just that much.

 

And I...honestly can't imagine a scenario where I wouldn't want someone to print out my images. Hell, I reprogrammed my site so that they could print out a printer-friendly version of my product_info page, because I know when I'm really contemplating buying something, I usually print out the page. I think seeing that oh-so-friendly message would piss me off and absolutely guarantee that I'd never buy from you.

 

The least obtrusive way I know of that's even marginally effective is make your images the background, and cover them with a transparent stretched pixel. Watermarks work to some degree (at least until you get a bored kid with photoshop), but they're also usually ugly.

[tkeats]

And the ultra geeky would simply view your source and find the exact path to your images and pull them up in the browser...

 

or wget it.. ;)

 

Thomas

 

P.S. Not that the Ultra geeky have the time to trouble themselves with downloading your images.. ;)

[usernamenone]

And removing the right click button drives away everyone that uses it for other reasons (on computers where I don't have mouse gestures installed, I use right-click, back rather than go half-way across the screen for the back button. Because I am just that lazy.) Also, people who browse without javascript won't even notice. I once read a blog for half a year before realizing that they'd disabled right-click. At which point I quit because I hate it just that much.

 

And I...honestly can't imagine a scenario where I wouldn't want someone to print out my images. Hell, I reprogrammed my site so that they could print out a printer-friendly version of my product_info page, because I know when I'm really contemplating buying something, I usually print out the page. I think seeing that oh-so-friendly message would piss me off and absolutely guarantee that I'd never buy from you.

 

The least obtrusive way I know of that's even marginally effective is make your images the background, and cover them with a transparent stretched pixel. Watermarks work to some degree (at least until you get a bored kid with photoshop), but they're also usually ugly.

 

I agree with everyone. Also right click disabling does not work with all browsers in my earlier days I would just switch browsers. Now If I come across a web site that has disabled right click I just down load their web page code, images and style sheet just for the fun of it. Watermarks can easily be removed if someone is determined enough. So yes the only way to protect you images is to not load them on the internet.

[Elazar]

Thanks for all of you for the great replies !

 

Regards,

Elazar