how could I start a photography website business if people are going to steal my pictures?
I mean I’d like REAL image protection with an add to cart shopping cart where I can print my prints directly from there and affordable. do you know any hosting that truly PROTECTS PHOTOS
Tagged with: image protection • photos • prints • shopping cart
Filed under: Website Business
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
Try to use this pictures watermarking tool
http://www.softorbits.com/batch-picture-watermark/
Watermark the thumbnails
I dont know anything about what your talking about, all i know is that you should put a watermark with your logo on the picture, so if people save one of your pics, it has a huge obvious watermark stating it isn’t theirs ( the thief )
for ex: like this
http://www.dphotojournal.com/wp-content/tutorial/watermark/watermark-1.jpg
yea. watermark everything, use scripts to disable rightclicking, or even embed your watermarked images into a flash file. so they cant save them as anything but flashfiles. this would stop most run of the mill thiefs
u can watermark the photographs
also there is a java code to make "DISABLE" the save option. u may use that code in ur website..
U can search that code in the java tutorials in internet
For an inexpensive way to start up you can go to photo reflect. https://www.photoreflect.com/Default.aspx They give you a nice looking web presence and a shopping cart with no start up costs. They get paid by getting a percentage of your sales. You can also upgrade service at reasonable prices. I use them to sell photos and also keep a separate flash website for marketing, since it’s easier to find on the search engines. I watermark all the photos on my individual site.
some websites can disable the right click option on photos…
others can have the pic not appear AS a pic, but part of something else…
speak to a webmaster and get some advice…
Watermark
Disable option to copy & paste or to download
How exactly do you know they’ll be stolen? Are they that good?
there is no technology that can prevent theft 100%
However keeping your pictures small will pretty much deter most theft, the reason is simple, monitors display at 72 pixels per inch. If you keep you pictures small, if someone tries to steal them they will not be able to blow it up without severe pixelated distortion.
Is there ways around this? not really, there are expensive programs ( several hindred dollars) that might do a ok job but certainly not a good job.
Watermarking is another level of pretection, but it is very easy to remove a watermark. There are digital behind the scenes watermarks that are very hard to remove, but neither method prevents theft.
So don’t try to prevent theft, just make the theif miserable. If you have work that you simply cannot have stolen, don’t put it on the internet.
Try a site like Zenfolio.com. You can select what size people can view, whether they can pay to download full size images, and order prints (Zenfolio is a division of Mpix.com and Miller’s Imaging). The full option website for this kind of control is around $100 (or 200, I forget) a year.
I would suggest you take a look at Photoshelter.com or Smugmug.com. Both are good solutions. Photoshelter in particular has a partnership with PicScout, which is a company that specializes in image tracking and image protection. You should take a look at that.
You can forget about using flash or javascript to "DISABLE" the save option: nothing prevents a visitor from just pressing print screen to copy the image. Watermarks might make it harder to steal the image, but there are ways around that as well.
The only 100% sure way to prevent people from stealing your images is simply not to post them on the Internet.
If you use a flash website then they can’t right click and save. I bought mine from Bludomain. You can also use Livebooks, but that’s a whole lot more expensive.