Why protect your images!

Rockyc

That may be for a Dummie, but not for someone that knows their way around a computer. I can capture any image I want, just by going into my Internet Temporary Files. I have mine protected, but all it does, is to make my members on my mailing list upset.
Rocky
PS: I just upgraded my account to the Pro last Thursday. I love the smugmug interface.:clap

Mike Lane

Rockyc wrote:

That may be for a Dummie, but not for someone that knows their way around a computer. I can capture any image I want, just by going into my Internet Temporary Files. I have mine protected, but all it does, is to make my members on my mailing list upset.
Rocky
PS: I just upgraded my account to the Pro last Thursday. I love the smugmug interface.

Indeed there are ways around the right click protection. If someone wants a picture from a web page bad enough, they can get it no matter what kind of protection you put in place. Really the only thing you can do to prevent someone from stealing an image is to not display that image on the net. If you choose to hide the original sized images people won't be able to make any good prints and if you hide the larges and/or watermark the images there won't be much use for a downloaded version of those images either.

There are different opinions on all of this (and different user needs) which is why SM offers so many different levels of protection.