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Tips to prevent your images from being stolen from online gallery

Brackish
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Oct 4, 2007, 6:39 PM

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Ran across this and thought I'd pass it along.:

http://www.bermangraphics.com/tips/sizing.htm

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Shadow
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Oct 4, 2007, 6:58 PM

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That's neat, thanks for the link.
I've been resizing them either in photoshop or in just window's picture manager.

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Brackish
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Oct 4, 2007, 7:22 PM

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You know, there is a tip there to cut up
your image into two pieces to make it more
difficult to "right-click save as" - they wouldn't
get the whole image but only half of it.
There's another tip I haven't heard of before which is to
overlay the picture with a clear/transparent
picture so that if they "right-click save as"
it will only save the clear picture and not
the real one underneath it. And then there
is a tip to insert java html to disable
"right-click save as".

My one question is this: What percentage of B&Gs
these days would be aware of print screen and
would have the technical knowledge to go
that route? I would appreciate hearing the
opinions of others here in regards to this
question. Do they teach 'em that stuff in
school?

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(This post was edited by Brackish on Oct 4, 2007, 7:28 PM)

KevinShaw
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Oct 5, 2007, 11:44 PM

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My one question is this: What percentage of B&Gs
these days would be aware of print screen and
would have the technical knowledge to go
that route? I would appreciate hearing the
opinions of others here in regards to this
question. Do they teach 'em that stuff in
school?

I'd guess that most modern couples have some idea how to use "print screen" or other screen capture approaches if they felt movitated to do so. But this wouldn't be an issue if you simply give them digital copies of the pictures they've paid you to take and not worry too much about trying to make extra money on prints (which some couples will pay for anyway even if you do give them source copies). It's an historic oddity that photographers are so concerned about selling prints instead of simply charging for their time and talent up front and letting their customers enjoy the results. If you do the latter then you don't need to worry about what the bride and groom do with your online samples.

Sparky
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Oct 6, 2007, 12:33 AM

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But this wouldn't be an issue if you simply give them digital copies of the pictures they've paid you to take and not worry too much about trying to make extra money on prints (which some couples will pay for anyway even if you do give them source copies). It's an historic oddity that photographers are so concerned about selling prints instead of simply charging for their time and talent up front and letting their customers enjoy the results. If you do the latter then you don't need to worry about what the bride and groom do with your online samples.

This is the plan that I started out and just stuck with ... providing a DVD of the images. I still have some print orders, but I don't really worry about it. I think it's been said many times that if it's on the web, it can be stolen.