Ok! Setting up a web site. What to do about image security?

[invisibleflash]

There is no security possible. If the image can be seen on a screen, it can be copied.

How do you do that?

I see many images I'd like and they disable downloading. They are not worth buying, but they are enjoyable to see once in a while.

[Jac@stafford.net]

How do you do that?

For a PC see the post just above or click here.

On a Mac use Command Shift 4 then frame the image with the cross-hair shown.
or use Grab found in the utilities folder inside the Applications folder
or Command Shift 3 to copy the whole screen
or if you use Photoshop get ScreenShot PSD from the App store (free)

For the iPhone or iPad - press the sleep/wake/shutdown button, then the Home button. The screen will flash and the screen image will be found in the Photos page.

I won't mention other platforms because I don't use them. Google is your friend.
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[invisibleflash]

Yours is the sensible answer.

I was being a bit presumptuous - suggesting that you have finally "arrived" when a Google search for your name on the "Images" tab... actually pulls up relevant photos.

Try it with "Sebastio Salgado" and you'll see what I mean. At least a couple pages of your good stuff should come up first.

"Looking at photographs, like taking them, can be joyful, sensuous pleasure. Looking at photographs of quality can only increase that pleasure." Pete Turner

That is how it is. Google gives good results first, useless later. Although I only have a third of a page of pix associated with a Google of me. I'm not worried about people using my pix. They can be traced back to be if someone wants to know who shot it with a Google image search.

They got some nice pix on the Wiki for free. High res stuff too. 24 million pix for free. Millions more on Tumblr.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...lezza_11vl.jpg

Most photos are not worth much. I would not be worried about thieves. I'm happy when people use my pix. Of course, this is a personal thing. Some photogs are very stingy with crap pix. Others like myself just let them rip and let others enjoy them. (Although I shoot doc work and few want them as wall hangers.)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Teoli_Jr..jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Teoli_Jr..jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Teoli_Jr..jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...eoli_Jr_mr.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Teoli_Jr..jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...eoli_Jr_mr.jpg

nsfw

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Teoli_Jr..jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Teoli_Jr..jpg


The thing that make a pix valuable is the sig line. Without sig the price can drop very low. Now you have to have a collectable name to sign to boot.

Look at this. All original artwork from one of the rarest and most desirable underground comix.

http://www.amazon.com/Trucker-Fags-D...s=trucker+fags

$3000. 28 pages of original artwork of the highest order...and you guys value your $1.50 inkjets like they are gold don't you? You want to be the next half million dollar tricycle pix don't you.

You don't understand do you. The art world picks out a few lucky photogs to bestow riches on so they can dangle the carrot in your face to keep you going. But when push comes to shove...the world is polluted with pix for the most part they are near worthless. If your after $, become an actor or actress. It is infinity easier to become a world famous and rich actor or actress than it is to become a world famous and rich photog.

My advice OP...don't be stingy, offer low res images of your work. If someone wants a signed print sell it if your money motivated.

You guys want to know how to make your pix show up on Google with your name...email me.

"A photograph that has not been shared or at least printed is almost an unexistent photograph, is almost an untaken picture." Sergio Garibay

[Greg Miller]

(except for the interlacing method, which I said in my post could be defeated by capturing the image twice and using photoshop to merge them).

That's way too much work. CTRL + PrtScn on a PC is much easier - no merging necessary.

[tgtaylor]

I got it - it's simple! Just place a self-destruct program in one or two of the pixels and when they install the screen-shot on their machine the program opens up and erases the image.

Thomas

[Jac@stafford.net]

I got it - it's simple! Just place a self-destruct program in one or two of the pixels and when they install the screen-shot on their machine the program opens up and erases the image.

Thomas

Show us the code!
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[tgtaylor]

That will cost you bucks....BIG bucks!

[jp]

I've even got a workaround if they ever block doing screen shots, by VNCing to a computer with the image on the screen and doing a screenshot from my computer instead.