Right Click Protection not working???

kdspencer

I've had my pro level smugmug site for a few months now, and I always make sure to right click protect my galleries, add a watermark, and only show medium to large resolution photos as the max.

I always thought I was safe from the 'right-clickers'. However, I sent through smugmug-email a picture to a friend, and she said she was able to click on it and set it as her wallpaper. (YIKES!!!) :scratch So... I went back and double checked all my settings, and made sure everything was correct, and I asked her to try it again a few days later. She said she was even able to save it to her computer!!! :huh

Has anyone else had this problem? Does it have anything to do with the email I sent through my site, or am I missing something? My site is www.kdspencer.smugmug.com. I'm nervous about putting pictures up for clients to view and buy if they can save them to their computers so easily.

Thanks for your help!!

Kyle D

kdspencer wrote:

I've had my pro level smugmug site for a few months now, and I always make sure to right click protect my galleries, add a watermark, and only show medium to large resolution photos as the max.

I always thought I was safe from the 'right-clickers'. However, I sent through smugmug-email a picture to a friend, and she said she was able to click on it and set it as her wallpaper. (YIKES!!!) So... I went back and double checked all my settings, and made sure everything was correct, and I asked her to try it again a few days later. She said she was even able to save it to her computer!!!

Has anyone else had this problem? Does it have anything to do with the email I sent through my site, or am I missing something? My site is www.kdspencer.smugmug.com. I'm nervous about putting pictures up for clients to view and buy if they can save them to their computers so easily.

Thanks for your help!!

I believe that the right click protection only works on your site. As soon as you email or post the image to a message board/blog/other website it's fair game for the right clickers.

Andy

Hi,once you put the photo off of your site, it's no longer protected by RCP. More here:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2008/07/04/right-click-protection-and-image-security/

kdspencer

Thanks Kyle and Andy. I didn't realize that about RCP, but it makes sense now that you've explained it.

~Kathleen

The Mack

kdspencer wrote:

I've had my pro level smugmug site for a few months now, and I always make sure to right click protect my galleries, add a watermark, and only show medium to large resolution photos as the max.

I always thought I was safe from the 'right-clickers'. However, I sent through smugmug-email a picture to a friend, and she said she was able to click on it and set it as her wallpaper. (YIKES!!!) So... I went back and double checked all my settings, and made sure everything was correct, and I asked her to try it again a few days later. She said she was even able to save it to her computer!!!

Has anyone else had this problem? Does it have anything to do with the email I sent through my site, or am I missing something? My site is www.kdspencer.smugmug.com. I'm nervous about putting pictures up for clients to view and buy if they can save them to their computers so easily.

Thanks for your help!!

You can always get the image URL and paste it into a address bar, hit enter, and it brings you to the photo where you can right click save as it.

However, the watermark is still there.