how can you protect a picture from being copied when its on the internet?

Question

I have a picture of mt saint hellens erupting with a plumb in the shape of an indian head in a war bonnet. i want to sell posters but dont want anyone to take any copies with out me knowing.

Answer 1

A watermark my friend, your photoshop should have one, or try yahoo's photo album. I'd like to see the picture. As a photographer myself, you have my word that it will not be reproduced. See my 360 page. Good luck to you! Happy New Year...

Answer 2

Well, what you have on the web probably will be low-res enough that no one could make a poster-sized print of it, so I would suggest not worrying about it. My guess is you're going to have more trouble getting people to know about the image than people copying it.

Incidentally, the scripts suggest below may prevent people from downloading the images, but they still can be screen-captured.

Answer 3

watermark wil just print an unearsable name of u or ur company.
I have to say ,,its impossible to prevent what u want bcos once loaded in computer it is copied automatically in temp internet file folder for some time.... but there are ways that make it more and more difficult(almost impossible) for anyone to copy ur photos.

but for that u must b handy wid html/javascript.
u can disable rightclick,windows auto copy options etc and much more.Search for the proper keywords on google u will find it.

Answer 4

By having a watermark over it. That means you put your name over the photo making it transparent so you can still see the picture but no one would want to copy it. Sounds like a cool photo!

Answer 5

I agree with adding a watermark but also suggest only posting a small pixel width version, probably no bigger than 600 pixels wide and maybe even smaller. That way if someone copies it they couldn't even get a good 4x6" print.

Answer 6

Try one of these DHTML scripts from DynamicDrive.com
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/