Using htaccess to block google images service

[GAtherton]

I have read (and implemented)lots of good advice on preventing google hotlinking images on my website, but my question is slightly different.

I would like to block all hotlinking (done) and block indexing/taking thumbnails of my images by all image indexing engines - google being the main culprit as I understand it. Would it be possible and a reasonable solution to simply block images.google.com?

[jdMorgan]

You shouldn't need to 'block' it in .htaccess, just ask it to stay out.

In robots.txt:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

This works for me.

Jim