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Hi,

Sorry to be off topic, but I am looking for a good photo sharing site. I want to be able to organize my photos by topic, protect it from being copied and also have some password protection. I don't mind paying for it if it works good.
Appreciate your inputs.
Gavin
 
Hi,
Sorry to be off topic, but I am looking for a good photo sharing
site. I want to be able to organize my photos by topic, protect it
from being copied and also have some password protection. I don't
mind paying for it if it works good.
Appreciate your inputs.
Gavin
I have my photos on pbase and I have liked it.
It's bit slow sometimes but most of the time it works ok.

IMHO there is not way to protect photos to be copied but you can made password protected galleries to pbase.

--
'Photos with cheap zooms':
http://www.petrilopia.net/
http://www.pbase.com/whig/
 
Agreed that there are not many options for protecting your photos. On SmugMug, you can choose to restrict access to original-size files, only displaying the scaled-down images (though the original is still used if someone orders prints). Also, if you upgrade to the Pro account ($150 / year, so maybe not good for friends/family-type sharing), you can add watermarks to photos.

Again, not much in the way of protection, but at least something...

David
 
Agreed that there are not many options for protecting your photos.
On SmugMug, you can choose to restrict access to original-size
files, only displaying the scaled-down images (though the original
is still used if someone orders prints). Also, if you upgrade to
the Pro account ($150 / year, so maybe not good for
friends/family-type sharing), you can add watermarks to photos.

Again, not much in the way of protection, but at least something...

David
In addtion to the watermarks, at the pro-level ($150/yr), there is good protection. Not only you can password protect the entire gallery (available at all levels), you can also disable download capability, and right-click "save image as...." function. If you try to right click and do save as, it will come back with error message.
 
Ooh - I didn't know about the right-click protection (although I suspect advanced users could just grab the photo out of the browser's cache, it's still great to have that feature). I gotta go try that!

David
 
Ooh - I didn't know about the right-click protection (although I
suspect advanced users could just grab the photo out of the
browser's cache
or just drag the image onto the desktop if they are not using Windows

right click protection is pretty useless you are dealing with a user who doesn't even know how to grab the screen. Most people who are browsing a photo site looking for an image to take are going to know how to capture the screen.

more useful are the sites which place a blank gif file over the image to prevent both right clicking and dragging. You aren't ever safe from the screen grab of course.
 
Thanks everyone. Does any of these offer print service? I was thinking if I post my kids photo in a password gallery my inlaws etc can order prints.
 
Thanks everyone. Does any of these offer print service? I was
thinking if I post my kids photo in a password gallery my inlaws
etc can order prints.
smugmug has that option - including password protected galleries.
 
Ooh - I didn't know about the right-click protection (although I
suspect advanced users could just grab the photo out of the
browser's cache, it's still great to have that feature). I gotta go
try that!
I can't understand why peoples even use word protection when they disable right-click button of the mouse.

That protection is just useless. Example just pressing printscreen and pasteing it to software like irfanview or photoshop etc. "crack" that protection.

--
'Photos with cheap zooms':
http://www.petrilopia.net/
http://www.pbase.com/whig/
 
All these comes to how many levels or protection available.

Sure one can capture the screen, and save the picture (then the limitation is the display resolution), sure one can go search the cache and find the picture.

The fool proof way is to not to put the picture on the web.

Then comes the rest. Password protect it, put some watermark on top of the picture, and other items such as copy image etc.

Smugmug offer all these (at the pro level). It depends on what type of users you are trying to prevent.
 

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