Right Click Lock?

[Failed_Attempt]

I've ran into an issue on a site I set up for a friend selling photographs. He watermarked all of them but people are still stealing them by right-clicking and saving picture as. I know its possible to lock the right click option but how would I go about doing this?

[Kim]

Disabling right click will only slow the thieves down - If your friend is serious about protecting his images he needs to look at a digital watermark - If he uses Adobe or Corel or Xat for working with the images he can add them that way.

[Failed_Attempt]

Disabling right click will only slow the thieves down - If your friend is serious about protecting his images he needs to look at a digital watermark - If he uses Adobe or Corel or Xat for working with the images he can add them that way.

Im confused about what your saying....How would a digital watermark help any more then a rugular watermark or disabling right click. He has well over 5 thousand photos on his site atm so to go through and re-watermark them all would be very pain staking and time consuming.

Im up for ideas but if you could be more specific as where to start I'd appreciate it.

[yellow1912]

Image handler 2 can auto applies watermarks for you, so that would be ideal for you situation. Right click doesnt help because it CAN ALWAYS BE BY PASSED

[Kim]

Suggest you Google - digital watermarking for a complete explanation.

[fairestcape]

Disabling right click will only slow the thieves down - If your friend is serious about protecting his images he needs to look at a digital watermark - If he uses Adobe or Corel or Xat for working with the images he can add them that way.

Kim is 100% right. Disabling right click means nothing (just press ATL + PrtSc on any web page and PASTE result into MS Paint - my 11-year-old daughter figured this out for herself!)

Digital watermarking - or using the watermarking overlay feature in IH2, are the route to go.

Digital watermarking embeds a code into the image file, so (for example) if the image is used by someone on their website, you can track it down. Even if they heavily edit the image, the digital ID remains, so you can still catch the culprits.

Keep web image resolutions low - this also discourages people from using them in print-based media as the repro quality will be poor.

[Merlinpa1969]

a thought for someone would be to have all images layered with a clear gif over them

[Failed_Attempt]

Kim is 100% right. Disabling right click means nothing (just press ATL + PrtSc on any web page and PASTE result into MS Paint - my 11-year-old daughter figured this out for herself!)

Digital watermarking - or using the watermarking overlay feature in IH2, are the route to go.

Digital watermarking embeds a code into the image file, so (for example) if the image is used by someone on their website, you can track it down. Even if they heavily edit the image, the digital ID remains, so you can still catch the culprits.

Keep web image resolutions low - this also discourages people from using them in print-based media as the repro quality will be poor.

Yes, I was told to lower the quality of the image for the site. Even a digitial watermark was used, would they be able to save them on their pc's and print them off? Its just the fact I've had over 10k hits in the last month with very little sales due to people recropping pictures to get ride of the watermark.

[Merlinpa1969]

what your doing isnt a digital water mark,
make your base images SMALL and put a definite watermark across the center of the image

image handler2 will do this for you dynamically

[afo]

If you want to see IH2 in action, take a look at the Holzheimers site in my sig. I don't have the small images watermarked, but the larger images are.