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  • teadrinker
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2001
    • 339
    #1

    Preventing people saving images.

    Hey, does anyone knows how to prevent people from saving images on your website? a few ways i know is.

    1.you can cut up the images into many pieces
    2. make the image in flash
    3. watermark all your work

    Anymore?
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    • jawanda
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2003
      • 6040
      #2
      Watermark (because some people will still figure out how to save 'em no matter what you do) and add right-click protection. Not even close to full proof, but will deter many of your average surfers from saving.

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        • Kevsh
          Confirmed User
          • Dec 2004
          • 8619
          #3
          You can to the old right-click prevention JS script which makes it a little more difficult, but they can still get them by viewing source and grabbing the URL.

          Also, be sure to modify your Apache config to disallow Google/Yahoo, etc. from indexing images = they won't show up on Image Search. There was a great thread on GFY here awhile back with example code, but I'm sure a quick search will show up tons of examples.

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            • NetRodent
              Confirmed User
              • Jan 2002
              • 3985
              #4
              There's no real good way. One way you didn't mention is to make the actual image the background of a table cell, then make the contents of that cell an transparent gif so it overlays the actual image.
              "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
              --H.L. Mencken

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                • teadrinker
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2001
                  • 339
                  #5
                  That sounds like a good idea NetRodent but that still doen't really work because people can just snapshot the whole screen and crop out the images. Like you said theres no real way.... that kinda sucks

                  anyone eles got anymore ideas?

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                    • fris
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Aug 2002
                      • 55679
                      #6
                      there is a javascript i use to use to you cant right click

                      and i use to make it so you cant wget
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                        • GatorB
                          The Demon & 12clicks
                          • Oct 2001
                          • 18208
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Kevsh
                          You can to the old right-click prevention JS script which makes it a little more difficult, but they can still get them by viewing source and grabbing the URL.
                          Yeah but most surfers are retarded so they don't know that.

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                            • Machete_
                              WINNING!
                              • Oct 2002
                              • 14579
                              #8
                              IMDB use a new pretty smart way to protect the images
                              They put a new layer on top of the image (dhtml) and in that layer thay fill out the table with a transparent GIF.. that way when the surfer rightclick and saves the image, they save the transparent GIF..
                              http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0349903/O12D-2266.jpg

                              they can still do a Viewsource and grap the photo, but it takes time to find th real foto

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                                • teadrinker
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Aug 2001
                                  • 339
                                  #9
                                  Yeah but most surfers are retarded so they don't know that.
                                  Am trying to prevent webmasters from taking my stuff, cutting up the images is the best way i think but the snapshot is still a bitch.

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                                    • chodadog
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Apr 2002
                                      • 9736
                                      #10
                                      One good method i saw somehwere was to load your images as a table cell background with a transparent "shim" image in the cell that is the same dimension as the image you're trying to show. Cellpadding has to be set to 0. When they attempt to right click and save, all they get is the clear file.

                                      Example:

                                      http://www.chodadog.com/skullfucked.html
                                      26 + 6 = 1

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                                        • chodadog
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Apr 2002
                                          • 9736
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by ebus_dk
                                          IMDB use a new pretty smart way to protect the images
                                          They put a new layer on top of the image (dhtml) and in that layer thay fill out the table with a transparent GIF.. that way when the surfer rightclick and saves the image, they save the transparent GIF..
                                          http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0349903/O12D-2266.jpg

                                          they can still do a Viewsource and grap the photo, but it takes time to find th real foto
                                          Ahh, what he said. hehe.
                                          26 + 6 = 1

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                                            • GatorB
                                              The Demon & 12clicks
                                              • Oct 2001
                                              • 18208
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by teadrinker
                                              Am trying to prevent webmasters from taking my stuff, cutting up the images is the best way i think but the snapshot is still a bitch.
                                              Oh sorry. Well anyways I wouldn't all those people REAL webmasters. And for them I think you'll need something more sophisticated than right click JS

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                                                • The Truth Hurts
                                                  Zph7YXfjMhg
                                                  • Nov 2002
                                                  • 15732
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by ebus_dk
                                                  IMDB use a new pretty smart way to protect the images
                                                  They put a new layer on top of the image (dhtml) and in that layer thay fill out the table with a transparent GIF.. that way when the surfer rightclick and saves the image, they save the transparent GIF..
                                                  http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0349903/O12D-2266.jpg

                                                  they can still do a Viewsource and grap the photo, but it takes time to find th real foto

                                                  it's actually just a straight html table background image... with the transparent gif occupying a cell the size of the actual background image.

                                                  no dhtml required.

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                                                    • Wiggles
                                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                      • May 2004
                                                      • 14423
                                                      #14
                                                      the average sufer can't get paste right click protection, cause usually they are too horny to think, easy to check cache, but they don't.
                                                      no sig

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