Html Code To Stop People From Downloading Your Photos

Business By loriemoms Updated 19 Mar 2006 , 5:55am by sunlover00

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loriemoms Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 7:42pm
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Deleting the post, since all I got was slammed...and was being told I was misleading people. That was not my intent of my post and now I know better then to try to be helpful for those who are trying to run web sites.

If you would like to disable right mouse clicking on your web site, (there is no such thing as too much security) the code is all over the internet.

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iceberg Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 7:54pm
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Just curious....why would you be concerned with people copying your photos?

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loriemoms Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 7:57pm
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Just curious....why would you be concerned with people copying your photos?




There have been some cases of, beleive it or not, people stealing photos from web sites and placing them on their own web sites, claiming them as their own work!

I would still watermark all my photos, but this kind of gets the message across as well.

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frulund2600 Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:00pm
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Anything you put on a website can be copied, there is nothing you can do to prevent it. Of course you can make it more difficult this way.

Just to show you: I downloaded this photo from your site in two secs (sorry I had to cut your head off) icon_wink.gif
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iceberg Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:02pm
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I was just curious because I get some of my ideas from the people here on this site and my thought is either you have it or you don't but I would never claim someone else's work as my own, I just may try to attempt what they have done.

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wendysue Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:16pm
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Thanks for this code. I may use it one day. I'm not to the point yet where I'm worried about it, but when I get this craft down to an art I will also have invested money in lighting, displays/backdrops for cake photos, and accents in photos. So, if someone stole my cake picture, they'd be taking a lot more than just an idea. Does that make sense? It's a lot of work getting a great photo of a cake... any cake. As far as I'm concerned if you create an original piece of artwork, even if it's a cake, you should protect it as much as possible. icon_rolleyes.gif

Another option is to have your bakery's name on each photo. A lot of decorators (even some here) use this trick and it's a smart one. thumbs_up.gif

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didi5 Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:21pm
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pardon my ignorance but loriemoms, how do you this code? I'm just not a computer techie (yet)!

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wendysue Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:23pm
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Originally Posted by iceberg

I was just curious because I get some of my ideas from the people here on this site and my thought is either you have it or you don't but I would never claim someone else's work as my own, I just may try to attempt what they have done.




I've borrowed ideas from this site to. For example my turkey cake idea came from the Cake Central gallery, but I changed a few of the details to make it my own.

I think that's totally cool to do. icon_wink.gif Can't imagine anyone having a problem with that, it's sort of flattering to have someone like your cake so much they try to recreate it on their own. Taking someone elses photos for use on your own site or in your own portfolio is what this is really about. So, not borrowing an idea, but borrowing the original photo where you found the idea is the real issue. I think people that do that have a lot of nerve! I seem to remember someone on this site recently complaining about finding one of her photos on someone else's site. So, it does happen! icon_rolleyes.gif

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loriemoms Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:45pm
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Originally Posted by frulund2600

Anything you put on a website can be copied, there is nothing you can do to prevent it. Of course you can make it more difficult this way.

Just to show you: I downloaded this photo from your site in two secs (sorry I had to cut your head off) icon_wink.gif




Yes, that is true, there is no way to prevent it (you can always pull any photo out of your temp folder!) It just makes it less tempting for people to download....

people can download photos from my web site, when they click on thumbnails. That is why I watermark them. (although why anyone would want to copy my photos is beyond me! hahaha)

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loriemoms Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:47pm
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Originally Posted by iceberg

I was just curious because I get some of my ideas from the people here on this site and my thought is either you have it or you don't but I would never claim someone else's work as my own, I just may try to attempt what they have done.




Ideas are fine, that is part of why we post here! But there have been cases where people actually steal the PHOTO and put it on their web site.

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loriemoms Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:47pm
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Exactly, WendySue!

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loriemoms Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 8:48pm
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pardon my ignorance but loriemoms, how do you this code? I'm just not a computer techie (yet)!




You can copy and paste it into your HTML code...I put it in the header of my web site.

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MomLittr Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 9:03pm
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I had found one cake that I wanted to use for a model for my parents' 50th anniversary this year.....I had e-mailed the person who made the cake asking if she would mind me using her cake as a model...thought it was the nice thing to do, not that my cake will look as good or exactly the same, but felt I needed to ask her.

BTW, how do you watermark photos? I see alot of them done like that and am very curious.

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Sugarbean Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 9:07pm
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Just so you know. This code won't prevent anything. Its VERY easy to get around this.
Even if you can't right click to steal the picture, you can still get it.

Just FYI for everyone.
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Watermarking is the best. Because in order to remove the water mark, they would destroy the pic.

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lemoncurd Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 9:17pm
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Just so you know. This code won't prevent anything. Its VERY easy to get around this.
Even if you can't right click to steal the picture, you can still get it.

Just FYI for everyone.
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Watermarking is the best. Because in order to remove the water mark, they would destroy the pic.




I agree, this code doesn't do much of anything. You can still easily grab the photos.

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didi5 Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 9:43pm
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BTW, how do you watermark photos? I see alot of them done like that and am very curious.




check this site: http://www.ladycakes.com/logo_on_photos.htm

It's a tutorial of how to put your logo on your picture.

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MariaLovesCakes Posted 11 Mar 2006 , 10:04pm
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BTW, how do you watermark photos? I see alot of them done like that and am very curious.



check this site: http://www.ladycakes.com/logo_on_photos.htm

It's a tutorial of how to put your logo on your picture.




Thank you, that is a very good tutorial. thumbs_up.gif

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jo_ann Posted 12 Mar 2006 , 12:40am
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Sorry but this didn't work. I clicked on your specific gallery and once you click on a specific cake and it brings up the picture and it let me copy it to my computer. I did this 3 times to make sure. The watermark is your best bet to prevent stealing. Sorry.

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mrnd_grn Posted 12 Mar 2006 , 2:14am
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Just disable javascript and you can still right click and save the image. (My husband is a computer programmer). He agrees the best thing to do is watermarking. There are other things you can do too, but if you put it on the web, you risk people "stealing it".

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loriemoms Posted 12 Mar 2006 , 1:57pm
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Just disable javascript and you can still right click and save the image. (My husband is a computer programmer). He agrees the best thing to do is watermarking. There are other things you can do too, but if you put it on the web, you risk people "stealing it".




well, like my original post said, it JUST to stop right mouse clicking. Not everyone knows how to disable java, not everyone knows how to use copy programs, not everyone knows how to look at temp files and not everyone knows to use firefox (which it doesnt work with). There was along thread on here on how someones photo was copied and I just posted this as a suggestion to try to deter theives.

I agree, the No Right Click code is not burglar-proof. It shows that you tried with good intent to prevent a theft of your photos.and that the thief disrespected that anyway and stole. After all, the person who doesn't lock his doors has little to complain about if he's burglarized. But if your locks are in place and you are still stolen from, at least it shows you made an honest attempt to prevent the theft.

I will go ahead and clear the post..since many of you feel I am misleading people. I was just trying to be helpful to those who were upset over their photos being stolen. I guess I will know better in the future. I do watermark all my photos, but I like the added security that someone has to think a little harder to steal photos and forms from my site...

Oh and PS. I am also a computer professional (have been for 20 years) and disabling Java will cause some web pages to not function properly. I thought I would throw out that little fact.

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frulund2600 Posted 12 Mar 2006 , 4:54pm
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don't clear it, it is a great thread thumbs_up.gif I don't think anyone is mislead.

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mrnd_grn Posted 13 Mar 2006 , 4:04am
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Hi, this is mrnd_grn's husband. I would like to point out that I was not trying to be offensive. Nor did I think your post was misleading. I do, however, think that sharing ideas and having people comment on them and pick them apart will yield a better solution. If you know that this is easily circumvented by disabling Javascript (which is way users can improve browser security, and is becoming more common), you can add a little snippet of code either bring up a page warning that the page is not viewable without Javascript, or simply add code to only display the images if Javascript is enabled. That way you have further protected yourself from image theft.

I would like to add that if you are really concerned with image security, you can watermark them, add a digital tag in the photo itself, degrade the quality of the image so it isn't worth stealing, etc... If I was concerned about image theft, I would do all the above. I would also provide a way for those people that are really interested in seeing a clearer picture of a particular cake, to request a full resolution picture. That way you control the distribution and can track it.

I agree with the poster above that asked you to unclear the post. That way the discussion can continue and a better solution may emerge. I also admit that I had to think a little bit to figure out how to circumvent this. This is way most software is "hardened" (made more secure), people see a vulnerability, post it, then people propose fixes, then the fix is posted and people again see a flaw and post it, then the cycle continues.

Sorry to offend, I was assuming that you would be interesting in refining that javascript to improve it, so I posted a way to get around it.

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i_love_icing Posted 14 Mar 2006 , 3:58am
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You can always use The Gimp. You can get it from www.gimp.org. It is a free (and completely legal) image manipulation program along the lines of Photoshop. In fact lots of people use it instead of Photoshop. (I made my avatar using The Gimp.)

Just to be clear, it is really The G.I.M.P., which is an acronym for Gnu Image Manipulation Program.

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sunlover00 Posted 19 Mar 2006 , 5:55am
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Not to be a 'downer' or anything, but a watermark can also be removed in photo editing software as well. If someone wants it that badly, they will get it. They should be spending more time trying to make the cake themselves than to steal others' work! Eventually, someone will find out that they are not as good as what they claim to be.

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