web graphics

No matter what you do, an advanced user will find a way to take a graphic off your page, if it is good enough. You might search around for a "no right click" script, but the question you really have to ask yourself is this: Are your graphics really good enough that someone else would want to place them on his/her site?

Companies such as photodisc and corbis, which are bigger providers of stock photos, provide a smaller resolution copy for you to use as a sample, or to use "just for show", as you put it.

Quote: why don't some of the big company's just block someone from using the graphic anyway if its copyrighted?

Why? Because they are aware that if someone really wants one of their graphics, they will find a way to get it. If, however, the person that took the graphic was reported to them, it would be conceivable that they might take some action.

I hope this helps

Brian Farkas

You can also get digital watermmarking software which will allow you to embed information into your image file. I'm not sure of all the details on this, but this is what a lot of the big stock photo companies will do to prevent people from using their images without paying. Once you've embedded your watermark you can then use the company's website to search the web for your images and find out who is using them. Digimarc is one of these companies (if you have Photoshop you might have a trial version under the filters menu)

Thanks guys for the info and it was helpful.I'll tell one of the reasons i asked about the stealing graphics ? is that i know a young man who has stolen enough graphics to start a sporting goods store with the credit card transactions and all. All he does is control the prices slightly above the graphics he steals,then when someone buys he orders from the store he stole the graphic and ships to the buyer just like he had a inventory.I think hes got enough sources that he dosn't look like he's got a lot of orders at one place.

Hi, actually, I just dug up something out of my bookmarks that might be able to help you out:
http://www.psyral.com/products/ikeep.html

Regardless of all the gizmos written in an html document, "no write click" script etc. Since browsers download all content of a webpage to your Cache/Temp Internet Files folders. All one has to do is pluck the copy of the graphic from their hard drive because its already there after the webpage loads.

And even failing that, one can simply press the print screen button on the keyboard and get a .bmp shot of the browser window including the graphics/photos. Then save it as a .clp (bitmap) from the clipboard viewer. Open it in a graphics program and crop it then convert to .jpg. iKEEP can't prevent that.

Don't waste your money on things like iKeep.

There is no way to prevent graphic theft on the net unfortunately.

You might want to check dynamicdrive.com.
They have a 'no rightclick script' only for imgs. This will only prevent img-theft with 'unskilled internetters', 'cause:
If people want to copy an image from your site , they will, no matter how. (cache, temporarily internet files, temp, [shift+F10])

[Edited by Jack Michaelson on Nov. 27, 2000 at 08:22 AM]