Is Right-Click Protection Inherited from Source Gallery?

nickjk

Hi,

I've added the download image button (found on the customisations forum - great stuff!), but I wanted to only make it available to a password protected gallery.
This gallery is a smart gallery, basically picking up all of my photos from other galleries (using a wide uploaded Date range).

BUT - although I've set this gallery as not-protected, it seems that the photos are still protected because they are in another gallery that has protection enabled.

Is this how it's meant to be - or am I missing something obvious that will allow me to keep the protection on the original gallery, but enable the download button on just my new smart gallery?

If anyone can tell me if it works differently for them, and how I might sort it out, that'd be great...

Thanks

Nick

denisegoldberg

I believe that characteristics such as whether or not the photo is for sale, and right click (non)protection is inherited from the source gallery.

You should be aware that right click protection is merely a stumbling block; it is not protection. From the smug help page at http://www.smugmug.com/help/image-protection:

Gotcha: SmugMug's right-click protection does not protect an image in a forum or blog post. To keep your images out of forums and blogs, block external links (see below).
Gotcha: Right-click protection is a deterrent for image theft but it should not be considered fool-proof. To truly protect your images, lock galleries with a password or apply a watermark and disable original-sized image viewing.

--- Denise

Andy

All collected photos obey the settings of their original gallery.

nickjk

OK thanks for that - I'll scrap that idea (was looking for a way to allow some people to download images) - and will look at watermarks as an additional protection step.