what this is doing.
the lightboxes have built in functionality that will overlay a transparent div over the images when it needs to navigate to the previous and next images. by default they are hidden with that function: hide() but we are telling those 2 divs to NOT be hidden. So now when you right click on it you're really right clicking on a transparent div and not the actual image thats underneath it.
The file renaming is needed as to not confuse your visitor into thinking there should be more images when there are not.
Thank you...this is an exciting theory but the divs are don't seem to be preventing right clicking on the actual item image in Firefox. did i do it right? changed the image names with a dash and deleted the I,d, at
Code:
www.geoodyssey.com/products
It is helpful but along with coding the copyright into the images as suggested above, and putting a copyright on all pages, I just want that message popping up...any combination of things to help remind the thief that it matters.

The site owner really does not want a watermark...sigh ...but thinks the lightbox is cool....I'll work on him...

Again, I think in our industry it is not about laziness as it is about the difficulty in creating images from a parts compilation ..especially when the parts shop web developer does not have access to the parts. they rely on the manufacturer to supply images and they do a good job of that for the most part...that is where our images come into play. they know we stock and shoot all our site images...every time there is a turn over in the staff there, our images start showing up on competitors sites. this little message, "please do not copy" along with other measures, like a copyright on each page...really have helped, going on ten years selling online now.

We've only seen this breach occur on a handful out of 800+ images on our competitors sights and the root of the problem has been this very situation as described...so something has been working where that "please do not copy" note is concerned or we'd see our images everywhere.

thanks for your time. I'll continue to fiddle with some ideas and post if i solve.