Photo Gallery images.

How to protect them?

[wolfy]

Hi,
I've created a photo gallery with more than 100 pictures and, I would like to protect them. In fact I paid rights on them so I don't want to see them all around the WWW!!
What would be the best way to do it without spoiling them?
Thanks for answering me!

p.s. Or should I pay 4$ and ask Google answers?

[Thors Hammer]

"OK guys, try this:
Save Me!

This my help against the AVERAGE user.

Every little bit helps!

-Marty "

LOL, it took me a few to figure this one out. But by gosh, I got it.

Just dropped the html into frontpage, took the table out, and then expanded the area. Did a preview, and saved the background image as........... REAL IMAGE

:)

hee hee

Thor

[wolfy]

Wow!!!
Thanks guys !!
I can't imagine a so big partecipation to my problem.
Now I'll try several
solutions to protect my pictures.

Stickymaster

<Hi wolfy, are these photos/pictures for your users/members to view? >

My pictures are for everyone, the only thing I don't want is users to "use" them. They can save in their hard disk, print them, but I wouldn't like to see them on other web sites.

Thanks again to all.

wolfy

[prowsej]

The #1 most effective way to stop your users from taking your photos without permission is to post a disclaimer on your web site asking them to respect your copyright because you've worked very hard on the images.

Anything beyond a small watermark on the images gets to the point were you are annoying the legitimate users of your site to a great extent. Especially things like anti-right click scripts are very annoying for legitimate users.

Save yourself the trouble. Take reasonable measures like inserting a watermark, but don't go to the ends of the earth. Because its just not effective.

[lauren1396]

In my opinion, the best thing to do for your web images is to watermark them.

I prefer to use the Digimarc watermark service, you can register at digimarc.com and watermark up to 99 images for free. (fees apply for 100+ images)

You get an ID# that can be embedded in your photos via the Digimarc filter in Photoshop. They also offer a service called 'Marcspider' that will let you know where on the web your images are being used.

This way you can find out if people are using your images and if it escalates to the point where you need to take legal action, the watermark will hold up in court.