For a moment, lets move from the D200 to ...

... trying to protect your pictures on to web.

Someone pointed me to this link:

http://www.htmlite.com/faq010.php

Check it out, very interesting.

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I work a lot in html and web administration and all I can say is that all of those javascript disable right-click/transparent gif tricks are a waste of time (IMO). If people can see your picture in their web browser (even if your site is flash), they can do a screen capture or other tricks to save your picture.

And frankly, I don't think that's a bad thing for people to save pictures or make them their wallpaper, especially if you have your name or logo on your photograph. It's like free advertising. But I also wouldn't put my highest res photos live on the Internet either. -Joe

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Joe Braun said:

I work a lot in html and web administration and all I can say is
that all of those javascript disable right-click/transparent gif
tricks are a waste of time (IMO). If people can see your picture in
their web browser (even if your site is flash), they can do a
screen capture

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I m surprised the Prt Scr button is still allowed you d thin that the industry would be after that button like maniacs

Joe Braun said:

or other tricks to save your picture.

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Disabling right click doesn't mean that one cannot grab and drag a photo to his/her desktop.

Joe Braun said:

And frankly, I don't think that's a bad thing for people to save
pictures or make them their wallpaper, especially if you have your
name or logo on your photograph. It's like free advertising.

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The problem is that they can be changed extensively but still carry your logo... I used to post images with a highest dimension of 900 pixels but now I think I ll go to 700.

So I have a question for you:

How safe is this way of proofing your image?



But I

Joe Braun said:

also wouldn't put my highest res photos live on the Internet
either. -Joe

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Joe Braun said:

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Thanks,
Yiannis
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'em_CT' said:

... trying to protect your pictures on to web.

Someone pointed me to this link:

http://www.htmlite.com/faq010.php

Check it out, very interesting.

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The problem of protecting your images is very difficult, as the author correctly states in the conclusion: viewing the source, looking in the cache, screenshots, are all sufficiant to overcome the protections.

So while they would stop an simple passerby to save the image (i.e. to set as his/her desktop), it wouldn't stop someone who really wants the photo.

Another technique I read about is to split the photo in different cells (and fill up a table with them). Of course, if one takes a screenshot, it nullifies this work.

There used to be a browser system that used a proprietary format from which no photos could be extracted (screenshot was not possible, no useful cache was left on the PC), but it requires the user to use that specific browser. I don't even know if it still exists; but ever for that there are workarounds (IIRC, you could circumvent it when running the browser in a virtual PC environment, and take a screenshot in the host operating system).

IMO, you can't really stop malicious people from stealing your photos, the only advice would be to watermark them, to embed an owner string (in exif comment), and to not put high resolution photos online. (the possibilities one has with low-resolution/high compressed photos are very limited ).

Jörg

If youre talking about the watermark, it should be pretty easy to remove in photoshop.

But still the resolution i so low you cant use the image for anything besides posting it on the web.