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Disabling The Right Click For Your Photo Website
Disabling The Right Click For Your Photo Website
Disabling the right click for your photo website
Every once in a while I stumble onto discussions of photographers whose photos have been pirated / stolen by the worth scum of the earth. The stolen photo was used on the front cover of Time, Life, Fortune or whatever…
Then the standard recommendation is:
Disable the right click and they will not be able to save / steal the photo.
This where the “debunking unit” must come in to correct the BS posted / talked about.
- Disabling the right click only works for “newbies”. People that don't know what they are doing.
- Disabling the right click does not work if the person, like me, has disabled the javascripts in their web browser.
- Disabling the right click does not work because when somebody is viewing your photo, the photo is automatically stored on the hard drive to be cached. All web browsers do that.
- Disabling the right click does not work because I can download the photo by looking at the source of the web page and then just copying the web address of the photo in the web browser's address bar. Depending on the web browser, it will be something like
Edit → View source
So in conclusion, don't try to disable the right click on your photo website, instead:
- Use a low resolution, 72 or 96 dpi for your photos.
- Use JPEGs with a width of 200 to 400 pixels for your photos.
- Set the JPEG compression to around 60%.
- Have a good legible watermark, but not too big, on your photos.
Alternatively place in photos in Flash SWFs shows generated by Lightroom. But many people do not like Flash, including many buyers, see: Why Insist On Annoying Customers?
Disabling the right click for your photo website
Every once in a while I stumble onto discussions of photographers whose photos have been pirated / stolen by the worth scum of the earth. The stolen photo was used on the front cover of Time, Life, Fortune or whatever…
Then the standard recommendation is:
Disable the right click and they will not be able to save / steal the photo.
This where the “debunking unit” must come in to correct the BS posted / talked about.
- Disabling the right click only works for “newbies”. People that don't know what they are doing.
- Disabling the right click does not work if the person, like me, has disabled the javascripts in their web browser.
- Disabling the right click does not work because when somebody is viewing your photo, the photo is automatically stored on the hard drive to be cached. All web browsers do that.
- Disabling the right click does not work because I can download the photo by looking at the source of the web page and then just copying the web address of the photo in the web browser's address bar. Depending on the web browser, it will be something like
Edit → View source
So in conclusion, don't try to disable the right click on your photo website, instead:
- Use a low resolution, 72 or 96 dpi for your photos.
- Use JPEGs with a width of 200 to 400 pixels for your photos.
- Set the JPEG compression to around 60%.
- Have a good legible watermark, but not too big, on your photos.
Alternatively place in photos in Flash SWFs shows generated by Lightroom. But many people do not like Flash, including many buyers, see: Why Insist On Annoying Customers?
