Image protection (how hard)?

Question

Was ripped off recently, paid lots of money for brill comercial web site, now no access to it and no copy of my own.

I want to get a new 1 done but little worried. My product is photographic reproductions so its really important that people cant copy them themselves, but also that you can still see them clearly on the site (this is the reason i paid so much).

How much should i expect to pay for a new site with this facility, order page/tracking etc, veiwers counter, maybe a fancy fade in fade out to display the images on offer.

Answer 1

Google "copyright protection" or something similar: I had a 30€ program a few years ago that:
1. Modifies your JPEG files in an invisible manner, so they can be seen on screen perfectly.
2. Disable the ! (You can't save your screen)
3. Prevents copy or downloads of the image (save as)
4. If you try to print the image, it goes grayscale and full of hatching...
I used it for a gallery of paintings selling full size repros and posters.
If that program is not on the market anymore, they are many others. They are not free (around 30-50$/€).

For a site that has the features you want (it is a full e-commerce with data-bases and accounting), you can expect, in UK, about £3000, more in US, and pretty cheap if you go for an Indian designer (they are not bad at all!).
I do these for about 1300€.

Answer 2

While there are ways to slow down a would be image thief, images can always be stolen from a browser. Try hitting print screen and it will copy the contents of a display to your image and you can paste them in any paint application, and even with that they can still get the exact image by looking through the data cached by their browser.

That said, there are some ways that will make it easier to prove copyright on a stolen image. First you can put information in the header for that image with photoshop under file->file info... That information can be deleted and is also not guaranteed to stick around if they convert formats. Second, you can put watermarks on the image with some identifying information, but make them seemingly imperceptible. Watermarks can be degraded. If you keep an absolutely pristine image saved in a non-lossy format such as tga then you can also make a case for theft, because it is provable that the image that was stolen was a slightly degraded version from the original - if they don't have the original and you do, that says a lot right there.

There is no foolproof mechanism for protecting copyright on certain forms of media. You can only make it slightly more difficult to do so.

As for prices, I don't know.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

What about if you create a subtle tranparent scanline and signature (or initials) in your image? It still can be seen clearly enough, but no one bother to rip it off.