Preventing online .jpg's theft????

Just starting my website and needed a little help from those of you have your own site. Is there an HTML code or Java Script that can be placed in the source to prevent online theft of my images when enlarged. I've got the "disable right click" code but that doesn't prevent anyone from the "Windows" Save-Print-Email-Open dialog box that appears each time you mouse over a .jpg. Can anyone help me here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

www.jabaco.net

Nope. If it shows on a user's screen, they can snag it. Watermarks and lower quality thumbs are your only protection, short of not posting them at all.

You can not prevent the theft.
Disable right click can be bypassed.
Best policy in my opinion is to keep images with lower quality just good enough to show the work, bad to be enlarged or printed. Let the gentlemen to come and buy it form you and the thieves to deal with low quality of their moral and image equally....
Samsen.

Plus the fact that "disable right click" REALLY PI**ES ME OFF when I encounter it. Personally, I use the Right Click to go back (Much easier than mousing up to the Back Arrow on the toolbar), to Add to Favorites (ditto), use my iSpell applet and other things. I think that it is just rude for someone to disable MY right click button. When I happen across it, I always send a terse eMail describing why I will not be buying their product, service, or what ever.

If you are interested in selling your images, it would be in your best interest to make your site as easy to use as possible. And if I want your image so bad, I will just hit "Print Screen" and paste it into Photoshop.

Now if you will excuse me, I have to check my spelling.

Rad

I notice a lot of people just don`t just a regular watermark on their image, but it`s this huge distracting watermark disturbing the image right in the dead center, thus making it not attractive, but I`m sur ethat works well.

I would do as everyone else has already said, keep them relativly small, and do a regular size watermark...

Disabling r,click is futile,,,,You can drag the image to your desktop.

Edit: NM, I just read the post above me

Thanks for your input. I don't sell online. I sell the Digital CD's. I was just trying to put a few examples online without the theft. How does the Online sellers prevent you from stealing from them?

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You can embed the jpg in a flash file. Then they have to link the flash file in a browser if you code it that way, they they'd have to strip out the jpg.

Then the ultimate way to steal a shot. Screenshot.

So yeah. Watermark it.

If you are building your site with css, you can stick a transparent box over the pics. Then dragging to the desktop will only drag the transparent box.

If you don't know what I mean by css, then I wouldn't bother.

It won't stop a screengrab and I don't think a watermark will help in that instance. It's rather more work to screengrab and trim, rather than just drag an image, so it might put off the lazy thief!

There is a balance between making it look good on screen and basic security. You can add logos etc, but if they can be cropped out, then they are not much use. Ultimately, if you are trying to sell them, allowing people to use them in mock-ups, may actually get you the sale.

This also assumes you can drive enough people to your site in the first place - the internet is a rather big place!

Graham

lol... if somone wants an image bad enough, all they have to do is press "print screen" then paste in a new photoshop document. Simple as pie. Who would want to steal an image though?

Actually a very good question. Many of my online webmaster buddies have had countless issues with people taking images from their sites and putting them on other websites, either directly or indirectly claiming them as their own. Some people do this knowing it's wrong, others do it but aren't fully aware of basic netiquette and don't know necessarily know they're doing something consider by many to be wrong.

As has been said above I try to keep the images fairly low quality. I have also started to put a very small watermark in the middle of the image. I have taken some snarky comments about it from some members here but in my opinion it doesn't detract from the total image. It is there for a specific reason. I started doing this after I found a number of my images on other sites.

If my images were for sale and i saw them stolen then i would worry about it.

If anybody is sad enough to take them or try to print a 800x533 then they've got more worries then i'll ever have, so i tend not to worry about such things

My deal is this. I only use an online seller from time to time. I sell the digital cd negatives with the customers name, picture and date on it. If I put a sample, regardless of the dpi, it can cost me $50.00+. This is why I'm looking for a code or script to prevent this.

Tell me what you really think of my site. I could use all of the critique, good and bad. www.jabaco

Thanks for all of your input.
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