Copying from galleries

[Jopix]

I'm confused. I'm trying to find a way of displaying and selling my photos. I've been looking at some of your galleries, and it's easy to copy and save photos from many of them which is something I wouldn't want to be able to be done from mine.

How do you stop people from copying your photos without paying for them?

[Swift]

Have you heard of a watermark before ? :)

[Extirpate]

Also some sites (Zenfolio being one of them) prohibit users from right clicking and copying. I guess they could "print screen" the image but if they're looking to print them out it'll result in poor quality.

[RCoulter]

You can't stop it from happening...

[KIPAX]

How do you stop people from copying your photos without paying for them?

Hide them under your bed :) .. Sorry for the flippant answer but thats about it. Every picture you view on the internet has to be downloaded onto your computer first. So the website you put them on is allowing every vistor to have a copy on there computer anyway..

Best you can do is watermark them..

[Swift]

Yeha just put a strong watermark on a photo, they'll be having trouble depleting it if done correctly.

[gcobb]

If I were worried about it I probably wouldn't post pictures.

[mkuriger]

post small versions and sell the high quality versions.

[gcobb]

Seriously, I'll scale down and reduce the resolution in most images I post. They may be able to be reposted but printing them is almost laughable.

[tommykjensen]

How do you stop people from copying your photos without paying for them?

You can't. At most you can slow some down. As soon as the photo can be seen in a browser it can be copied. In fact it has already been copied to the viewers harddisk and it is just a matter of looking in the right folder on the pc to find it.

[bieber]

How do you stop people from copying your photos without paying for them?

Ditto what others have said. Thankfully, browsers aren't designed in such a way that you can show something to someone, but then they can't hold on to it. If you don't want people copying it to their computers, don't put it on the Internet.