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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

there is a javascript i use to use to you cant right click

and i use to make it so you cant wget

Yeah but most surfers are retarded so they don't know that.

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

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.

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

Ahh, what he said. hehe.

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

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.

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.