Preventing photos from being copied/saved
 

Could someone please teach me how can I implement the photo-protection feature I've found in the following photoblog: http://www.oswegan.com/index.php

If you right click on the picture you would notice it doesn't give you the option "save image as" etc.

Thanks a lot for the help!

There are so many ways around that method of getting the image that it's really not worth the time setting up. You're better off not putting your photos on the internet if you think they are going to get copied.

There seems to be an option when I tried. You could watermark your images or disable right click complete. Disabling it is quite fustrating for many people so i would not recommend it.

You can disable right click for good.

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The reason it doesn't give you a "save image as" option in your context menu is that there's an invisible layer over the image that contains a background image. I'm pretty sure this is the way the simplicious template works, so you could try that template and see if that will work. This will only makes it slightly more difficult to get the image. If you check the source code for the page, you'll still see the path to the image, and that will allow you to browse to the image directly. You can then still right click and "save image as".



Um, yeah. Disabling right click is ineffective at preventing people from stealing your images. All you have to do to re-enable right clicking on the page is temporarily disable javascript. Or if you want, you can just go to File "save page as" (in FF) or File "save as" (in IE), and you can download every element on the page, including the images. Yeah, it might require an extra couple of clicks, but it's still pretty easy to get.

It's also pretty annoying. People, like me, who use the context menu (right click menu) for bookmarking or subscribing to feeds, are likely to assume that you don't want us coming back if you make it difficult for us to use the web the way we want to.

After looking through the source code of the website, I realised it might be using a blank (transparent) .gif to overlay on top of the image. I understand it can still be easily defeated -- like how dakwegmo pointed out the full path to the image. However I still think it is not a bad method to keep the more casual image-stealers away.

I much prefer this method than the "disabling right-click" trick -- same reasons as others have pointed out.

In any case, thanks a lot for the input fellas!