How to protect my photos

KHvG

Hi, can somebody tell me if there is a possibility in RapidWeaver to protect my photos from being downloaded and used by other people ? Thank you.

Paul Bradforth

on 1313498149:

Hi, can somebody tell me if there is a possibility in RapidWeaver to protect my photos from being downloaded and used by other people ? Thank you.

Short answer: no. Longer answer: there are dozens of things that say they'll stop people downloading your pictures, but none of them stop you taking a screenshot, ie, they don't work. Welcome to the web! If you can stop yourself worrying about people downloading stuff of yours, you'll enjoy it a lot more

wcmitchell

if you use stacks look at joe workmans image safe stack. Paul is right about screenshots if someone is going to "grab" "steal" "copy" a photo they will find a way.
hope this helps
william

Paul Bradforth

on 1313514330:

if you use stacks look at joe workmans image safe stack. Paul is right about screenshots if someone is going to "grab" "steal" "copy" a photo they will find a way.

And remember that all screenshots are, necessarily, at screen resolution, meaning that the copy they make by doing so is just the same quality as the one you put up there. No offence intended to Joe at all, but all these things that are supposed to stop people downloading only stop the newbies, and they shouldn't worry you too much. If anyone really wants to steal one of your images, they'll do it, and it will take seconds. Best of all

Vasily Ingogly

There's no way to protect photos from download, but there are invisible watermarking techniques out there ... see e.g., Digimarc. Digimarc Pro also provides a search service that uses the watermarking to find sites that are using your images. There's a substantial annual fee, however. Digimarc provides a tool to find image thieves, and legal fodder if you decide to file a lawsuit.

https://www.digimarc.com/DigimarcForImages/

Vasily

KHvG

Thank you guys, watermarking is not really an option first of all because my site is a photo site and contains too many photos to mark them all in a reasonable strech of time an secondly, because anyone can crop the watermark off. I'll just follow Paul's advice : not worry too much. Thanks again.

seyDoggy

on 1313574503:

Thank you guys, watermarking is not really an option first of all because my site is a photo site and contains too many photos to mark them all in a reasonable strech of time an secondly, because anyone can crop the watermark off. I'll just follow Paul's advice : not worry too much. Thanks again.

Invisible watermark is one that's contained in the meta data and is not visible to the viewer. You can also add them on the server side (no work for you), http://www.sitepoint.com/watermark-images-php/

KHvG

OK seyDoggy, I'll look into that, thanks a lot !

tiger

i.m glad to you make it R4i !