stop photo downloads?

rups

Hi

I'm pretty new to Digital Grin.

I'm a standard Smug mug user, basically use it to put up my photos to show to friends and family.

Originally I was more than happy for friends to download the photos for their own use. However more and more often friends are copying the photos and putting them on Facebook etc, which I am not very thrilled about. I have told them not to do it, or at the very least ask for my permission in advance, however it still happens.

Is there anyway I can prevent my photos from being copied / downloaded?

Thanks

Andy

Hi, block your originals, in the tools>customize gallery settings. Also, Power and standard users can block original, X3L, and X2L by choosing to display XLarge as their largest size. If you want more, our power offering has right-click protection, and our pro offering adds Watermarking. http://www.smugmug.com/help/image-protection

rups

Hi

Thanks for that. Pro is probably a bit out of my price range for what I use Smugmug for!

BTW do I have to do this for each gallery, or is there a global way of doing this?

Andy

rups wrote:

Hi

Thanks for that. Pro is probably a bit out of my price range for what I use Smugmug for!

BTW do I have to do this for each gallery, or is there a global way of doing this?

each gallery. And you can use quicksettings
http://www.smugmug.com/help/picture-storage

Scotto

rups wrote:

Hi

Thanks for that. Pro is probably a bit out of my price range for what I use Smugmug for!

BTW do I have to do this for each gallery, or is there a global way of doing this?

Rups, I am not affiliated with SmugMug but I do recommend SmugMug to almost every photographer I meet

I know a Pro account is a big step up from power but stop and think about how much your photographs mean to you.

A while ago I had theft of my photographs from my site, I used all the methods I could, restricting the viewing size, pop up right click warning etc. What had happen was a band had decided to do a screen grab of my website and then upload the stolen photographs to there own site.

I pursued this with the band and invoiced them for the theft of the images. They basically were willing to go to court and fight me through the justice system !!!!

In the end an agreement was made and the photographs got removed.

Now back to my point... I own a pro account for one simple reason. It offers 'on the fly' watermarking, I upload a few hundred photographs, click 'Watermark' and I no longer have to worry about people screen grabbing my photographs.

jfriend

Andy wrote:

each gallery. And you can use quicksettings
http://www.smugmug.com/help/picture-storage

Andy, has there ever been a consideration to make quicksettings more granular so you could apply just some settings across a bunch of galleries? As it is now, you can only really use quicksettings if you have galleries that want ALL their settings to be the same which limits their usefulness a lot, particularly if you use passwords on some galleries. I'd love to see a system like Lightroom where you could decide which settings were part of a quick setting so you could create a saved quick setting that just had three settings in it, for example. Or you could use quick settings to turn watermarking on everywhere, but not change any other settings in the galleries. This would make them a ton more useful.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

Andy, has there ever been a consideration to make quicksettings more granular so you could apply just some settings across a bunch of galleries? As it is now, you can only really use quicksettings if you have galleries that want ALL their settings to be the same which limits their usefulness a lot, particularly if you use passwords on some galleries. I'd love to see a system like Lightroom where you could decide which settings were part of a quick setting so you could create a saved quick setting that just had three settings in it, for example. Or you could use quick settings to turn watermarking on everywhere, but not change any other settings in the galleries. This would make them a ton more useful.

Agree, but there are a lot of intertwinings.. pretty tough stuff, I'm afraid. I know that the subject comes up a lot and then the reaction is "groan" - I'll ask around again!

jfriend

Andy wrote:

Agree, but there are a lot of intertwinings.. pretty tough stuff, I'm afraid. I know that the subject comes up a lot and then the reaction is "groan" - I'll ask around again!

Smugbrowser does it already so we know the code to apply a subset of settings across a group of galleries isn't that hard even when done via the public API. Making the UI work well is probably the most interesting part of the job. I'd personally take something as simple as making a quicksetting from a particular galleries settings and then just give me a checkbox list of which settings to actually include in the quicksetting. One addition to today's UI.

As it is now, I NEVER use quicksettings because I typically want to change one setting on a bunch of galleries. To use a quick settings requires that I verify beforehand that it's OK if I force ALL the gallery settings on All the affected galleries in the bunch to be the same. That's a lot of clicks to verify that you won't be changing something you don't mean to.

Perhaps not a big deal if all your galleries are family galleries with the same settings. But, it's a lot more complicated when you have galleries for many different types of constituencies, each with different settings, passwords, degrees of locked-down-ness (nice word I just make up), etc...

It's not that it's broken now - it does what you intended, it's just only about 10% as useful as it could be.

kellinixon

Andy wrote: »

Hi, block your originals, in the tools>customize gallery settings. Also, Power and standard users can block original, X3L, and X2L by choosing to display XLarge as their largest size. If you want more, our power offering has right-click protection, and our pro offering adds Watermarking. http://www.smugmug.com/help/image-protection

Andy,

I am not seeing a way to turn off the save feature entirely. I don't even want it to be an option when someone hovers over an image.

jfriend

kellinixon wrote: »

Andy,

I am not seeing a way to turn off the save feature entirely. I don't even want it to be an option when someone hovers over an image.

If you disable originals and look at your site when you are not logged in, then there will be no save photo option in the flyout when you hover. "Owner Save" will be there only when you are logged in.

denisegoldberg

kellinixon wrote: »

I am not seeing a way to turn off the save feature entirely. I don't even want it to be an option when someone hovers over an image.

Already answered in your thread Turn off Save.

Please don't ask the same question in multiple places; all that does is make extra work for the helpers here.

--- Denise