Protect images from Right-click No scripts - just a small trick

[kokushta 0]

Offen happens to see your images used in someone's website. Here is a little trick how protect them, from the right-click 'Save Image As..'

If you use tables, you can use the 'real' picture as backgroung in a cell and use a 1x1 tranparent GIF to cover it. See the code to understand.

<table width=200><tr><td background=mypic.jpg width=100><img src=spage.gif width=100 height=120</td><td width=100></td></tr><tr><td width=100></td><td width=100></td></tr></table>

[overture 0]

So the way i understand it is, when the user right-click and goes to save as they will be saving the transparent gif rather than the main image. If so that is a novel idea, you come up with it yourself?Although if someone wants it bad enough they will just screen print it. Unless you get software to stop that which i know is available.

[kelp 0]

Hmm... is there anyone to protect other people from looking at directories and only let that page access it? Someone could view the source and find the directory the picture is located in. Yeah and that print screen is a way around it. I believe there's a watermarking program that makes a big watermark on the picture if you use print screen.

[Garthnak 0]

Anyone who is smart can look at your source and get the image from that. There is no way to prevent it. Besides, people have to download your images to their computer anyway in order to view them in the first place - its just that their browser does it for them transparently.Personally, I think the concerns about people stealing your images are a waste of time. If you are really worried about people stealing your data, don't put it on the Internet! Once your data is on the web, it is fair game for everyone. That's just the way things are.

[OrbitPoints 0]

If you really wanna try to stop it create a perl script that checks referrer, if referrer is your site then print image if not then print a picture that says "Create your own pictures.". If you want an example perl script pm me. I would have to dig it up.

[kokushta 0]

So the way i understand it is, when the user right-click and goes to save as they will be saving the transparent gif rather than the main image. If so that is a novel idea, you come up with it yourself?

 

Although if someone wants it bad enough they will just screen print it. Unless you get software to stop that which i know is available.

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Yes, that would be the point.

 

This fact I read it in a magazine or maybe in an e-zine, as the main aim of this forum is to share, thought it would be a good thing for others to know.