"protecting" images from download?

[scruffy.thedog]

It look likes it protects on the page or can be it applied at the server side to a whole site gary rather than individual pages?

[edm3]

Good pile of info there folks!

I've decided to only use small, low-res images for the most part.

Cheers!

[gwpriester]

That software sounds interesting. Do you have a site that is currently using it?

I have used it on my wife's painting website http://www.mary-carter.com/ The copy is not locked down. I would think this makes it easier for search engines to find it though I may be full of bologna.

[gwpriester]

Ack and double ack and %^$%$#@!@#$@!!!

This site too http://www.ortega-wine-label-design.com/index.html

I checked after I posted my response because I know that this client specifically did not want their label designs to be copied. And I had recently migrated this site to Designer from NetObjects Fusion. I found that I had not copy protected the images. Then I found that I had deleted the site files!!!

I was able to go back through the backup files and find the most recent version. But then I had deleted the file with the flash files. And when I published the site using FTP it looked like a real dog's breakfast.

Fortunately I was able to find the flash files and I think all is back in order.

I need a drink.

[Deltapete]

Hi Gary, sorry but it was 5 seconds work to copy a picture from the wine site, via the snipping tool that comes as standard with Vista & Win7.
I was going to attach the pic but thought better of it
I think as everyone else has said, it's impossible to stop people who want to, from copying and using your web content. All you can do is make it unusable in anywhere else, with a watermark or low resolution.
Regards,
Peter

[pauland]

Beautiful labels. I think I might start collecting the Marilyn wines..

[Big Frank]

the only way to protect an image to 100 % is never to publish it on the web

Yup. That's about the size of it.