Quote Originally Posted by DivaVocals View Post
I only suggested IH2 so that you could use it's watermarking feature which IMHO is the BEST way to deter image thieves.. Right click scripts are so 1990s and are EASILY defeated by ALL modern browsers. A picture thief who is ACTUALLY wanting your images will EASILY work around your right click scripts.. I could name ALL the ways how, but again that is off topic for this support thread..

The watermarking feature in IH2 is a BETTER deterrent to image thieves as watermarked images will need to be edited to remove your watermark, and this is not a skillset most images thieves have.
Can I just add to that sentiment? Websites that use a no right click script are, IMHO, just lame and they communicate a message of "website homemade by paranoid person".

While it's not paranoid to want to protect yourself from theft, it does look paranoid to use "beginner tools" to do it. People who are serious about loss prevention use the appropriate modern tools to manage their inventories and property.

I agree that watermarking is the way to go. If your biggest concern is that you want a copyright notice shown to visitors, then use the copyright notice as the watermark.

Also, it's just not that easy (unless you know how and most image thieves do not) to get images out of light boxes. The fact that they look cool is only one of the reasons people started using them - the other was to protect their images.

So using a light box WITH a right click script is just overkill.

Lastly, if you've installed IH2 and can't get the watermarks to work, you've done something wrong and need to READ the README and then either adjust your settings or your images or reinstall - not revert back to outdated tools created for amateur site builders.