Right clicking not a problem, dragging to the desktop is!

[Cyberpawz]

OK, I don't care that you can find the photo from the code if you disable right-clicking or whatnot.  If they want the photo that bad good for them.

Is there a script that keeps a user, or a viewer for that matter to be unable to drag the photo from the site to their desktop and bypass the right click? Before someone says do a search I have... that is why I am asking because as far as I can tell no one has answered this problem in one straight response yet.

[kegobeer]

I did a Google for "rollover image prevent" and saw a few pages that talk about ways to slow people down.  You can give those a try.  Ultimately it's a futile attempt because there are always ways around it, as you'll read on the various sites.  It will put off the casual viewer though.

[kiig]

What about using layers ? on http://foto.igel.it  you can see the result from this thread : http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=10660.0

Try right-clicking (you can) and save it, - you won't get the image, - but a small 1x1 pixel gif (which is empty)

I don't know if this could help, - or if the image get downloaded in temporary internet files anyway...

Kim Igel.

[Casper]

Basically, if the image is on the screen, it's in the users cache as well, whether it is the foreground image or not.  So any user can retrieve it from there.

And of course, most people have a screen capture ability now as well.

The best protection is a watermark, added to the pic before upload.  They can still get the pic, but removing the watermark will not be easy.

[Cyberpawz]

Basically, if the image is on the screen, it's in the users cache as well, whether it is the foreground image or not.  So any user can retrieve it from there.

And of course, most people have a screen capture ability now as well.

The best protection is a watermark, added to the pic before upload.  They can still get the pic, but removing the watermark will not be easy.

Like I said before if people are going to get at it they will, I just want to take away the simple ways of doing so.  Thanks.

[Cyberpawz]

I did a Google for "rollover image prevent" and saw a few pages that talk about ways to slow people down.  You can give those a try.  Ultimately it's a futile attempt because there are always ways around it, as you'll read on the various sites.  It will put off the casual viewer though.

Ok, and where would I put this code?

[Cyberpawz]

What about using layers ? on http://foto.igel.it  you can see the result from this thread : http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=10660.0

Try right-clicking (you can) and save it, - you won't get the image, - but a small 1x1 pixel gif (which is empty)

I don't know if this could help, - or if the image get downloaded in temporary internet files anyway...

Kim Igel.

I already have the right click problem taken care of, what I need to take care of is how to keep them from dragging it to the desktop.

[kiig]

try dragging a image off foto.igel.it .. you'll get the empty 'spacer.gif' from the top layer...

[Cyberpawz]

try dragging a image off foto.igel.it .. you'll get the empty 'spacer.gif' from the top layer...

What do you mean top layer? What if they left click and then go to the "large view" of the photo?

[kiig]

try it :-) same thing applies here, - the image shown on both normal and large images is a blank gif's in a table which background is the actual image... I think....

At least this is why I talk of 'layers'. Anyway, - try it on my site to see if any of it could be usefull (you should try it on http://foto.igel.it - I think it's not implemented on the thumbnails, - but on 'normal' and 'large' view, - and not on the slideshow either)

Kim Igel.

[Joachim Müller]

Kim,

the page isn't displayed correctly for me using Firefox, only in IE (see the resized Firefox screenshot I attached).

Joachim

[kiig]

Hmm.. there was something about that.... thanx for bringing it to my attention, - but I don't have the kowledge to change it... still, - I like the idea that people can't steal the images too easy, - so I'll accept the IE only problem.