best way to block images from being stolen

[Newton]

i do alot of photo work and don't like my images being copy pasted or printed. what's the best way to stop this from happening?
i have tried a couple javascripts but they can easily be blocked.
how do i completely block images from being stolen?

[Dartz]

Only way to do it is by not putting it on the internet, if it can be seen, it can be stolen.

The best way is to have it as a thumbnail or a smaller version, like making a 1500' image a 900' on the "fullsize" version. That way, they can't get the full-sized image from your site.

And if they want the full 1500, they'll have to fork out for it.

[s.daniel11]

another good idea is add some water mark on your photo...

[webhostingUK]

Yeah, applying Water-mark can be the good option for protecting your images.

[donna]

Originally Posted by Dartz

Only way to do it is by not putting it on the internet, if it can be seen, it can be stolen.

The best way is to have it as a thumbnail or a smaller version, like making a 1500' image a 900' on the "fullsize" version. That way, they can't get the full-sized image from your site.

And if they want the full 1500, they'll have to fork out for it.

Dartz's suggestion is probably the best way to solve your problem. I just thought I would add a few more things in case they are helpful to anyone.

There are other ways to block photos from being used, although they are only partial solutions to your problem...

You can put some code into your .htaccess file if you are on a Linux webserver and have access to it that will prevent hotlinking from happening. I did this on one of my big photo sites because people were hotlinking to my photos in forums. It was eating up my bandwidth and people usually just saw the photo and never came to my website. This doesn't stop them from just downloading your photo though.

You can put photos into a table background which prevents them from being right-click downloaded, but if someone really wants to download the photo they can still go to the source code and find it there. This is beyond the average internet user though, so it will stop a lot of the instances of download. I think there is a way to combine this method with the one above to make this an even more robust solution - I've never tried it but I think I have seen some code to do this.

You can embed your photos in flash. You could actually make a nice photogallery with flash and that would prevent anyone from downloading individual photos. But the downside is that the photos wouldn't be index individually on Google Images. However, maybe that doesn't matter to you.

[shawnjr]

Hi,
I am totally agree with Donna that you can put those photos into a table background, by doing this you can save it because most the people dont know how to copy it from source code.

[minorityslam]

you can custom create the drop down menu that you get by clicking the right click of the mouse and you can not include paste in that. Other than that you can code on your site not to use the keyword ctrl and "c", basically use the ascii keys codes for this to make sure they arn't used together. I think that will do that trick. This is only for the text though, I am not sure about the images.