Comments on: Protecting Images: Five Methods Explored

By: Digital Fingerprints For Images: Detecting Image Theft for Free : The Blog Herald

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:47:00 +0000

[...] Security is not an absolute thing and it is a matter of being as secure as practical. This system, though free, easy and fast, is far from perfect and should only be used as part of a larger system. Preferably one involving theft prevention tools such as watermarking and overlays. [...]

By: PlagiarismToday » Art Theft Scandals Rock DeviantArt

PlagiarismToday » Art Theft Scandals Rock DeviantArt — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:50:42 +0000

[...] to help users protect their work. Artists who host their own content and run their own sites can take many different steps to protect their content and have much greater opportunity to prominently display copyright [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:02:05 +0000

Sticking to the applet theme I’d suggest using http://www.tagright.com. All I have to do is upload my images and decide what options I want like disabling printing or screencapture or saving, and then paste the applet tag where I’d have the image tag. The method allows me to have personalized menus too (better than disabling right click and annoying visitors I just have a custom menu for each photo like how much it costs to order or my email or copyright). But I don’t have to do any fancy CSS stuff or paste together different segments or install software to make it all work so it’s pretty simple and even gives me a lot of control and new options.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:02:05 +0000

By: jim coe

jim coe — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:40:57 +0000

The method i use for my fine art photos was perhaps not mentioned because it’s so obvious.

I publish only jpeg images that are of just barely high enough quality to be viewed online, but are not large enough or of high enough resolution to enlarge or to print or to resell.

There is a small copyright in one corner, but no attempt to prevent copying – just the above method to make my images very difficult to make any money with.

By: jim coe

jim coe — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:40:57 +0000

The method i use for my fine art photos was perhaps not mentioned because it’s so obvious.

I publish only jpeg images that are of just barely high enough quality to be viewed online, but are not large enough or of high enough resolution to enlarge or to print or to resell.

There is a small copyright in one corner, but no attempt to prevent copying – just the above method to make my images very difficult to make any money with.

By: Todd Belding

Todd Belding — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:07:59 +0000

I wanted to point out another possibility to you that I don’t recall you mentioning – mouseover.

This is where the picture will change to a different image when the mouse is brought over the image itself, therefore rendering the right-click “save as” option ineffective. If used in conjunction with miva or re-direct for file locations it by-passes the standard “look at the code” method of tracing the file origin, but does not fully eliminate the screen-capture method. It also does not ensure that the cached image is altered so anyone can goto their IE cache (if they know where to look) and get the file from that location without having to save the entire page to their hard drive.

Another option is applets that blank the screen when a screen image is attempted to be taken. This, however, does not always work if you try to use IE to print to….. and choose another program to save it to such as Adobe PDF.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to send along the added information to mull over.

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By: Todd Belding

Todd Belding — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:07:59 +0000

I wanted to point out another possibility to you that I don't recall you mentioning - mouseover.

This is where the picture will change to a different image when the mouse is brought over the image itself, therefore rendering the right-click "save as" option ineffective. If used in conjunction with miva or re-direct for file locations it by-passes the standard "look at the code" method of tracing the file origin, but does not fully eliminate the screen-capture method. It also does not ensure that the cached image is altered so anyone can goto their IE cache (if they know where to look) and get the file from that location without having to save the entire page to their hard drive.

Another option is applets that blank the screen when a screen image is attempted to be taken. This, however, does not always work if you try to use IE to print to..... and choose another program to save it to such as Adobe PDF.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to send along the added information to mull over.

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