photo protection

bphilly · January 10, 2006

ok so maybe i messed something up, but the photo protection thing does not stop people from being able to save your pictures. when you try to right click on a picture in a gallery, the "this is protected...." message comes up, but if you first left click on a picture so that a larger size of it comes up, you can then right click on it and save it to your computer. how can you make it so that this is not possible??

Andy · January 10, 2006

bphilly wrote:

ok so maybe i messed something up, but the photo protection thing does not stop people from being able to save your pictures. when you try to right click on a picture in a gallery, the "this is protected...." message comes up, but if you first left click on a picture so that a larger size of it comes up, you can then right click on it and save it to your computer. how can you make it so that this is not possible??

Have you looked at the file you've saved to your desktop? It's called "spacer.gif" and it's an empty file... try it!

bphilly · January 10, 2006

oh ho ho, your a quick one andy. i should have known better.

Andy · January 10, 2006

bphilly wrote:

oh ho ho, your a quick one andy. i should have known better.

No worries

And, if you put this in your javascript section of your customization, you can personalize the message! (of course, edit to suit you...)

rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Andy Williams - Moon River Photography. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited."

digital faerie · January 10, 2006

Andy wrote:

No worries

And, if you put this in your javascript section of your customization, you can personalize the message! (of course, edit to suit you...)

rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Andy Williams - Moon River Photography. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited."

hey, now that's useful. a personalized "leave my piccies the heck alone" message. :gun2

ddkphotos · January 19, 2006

That was easy - thanks Andy!
DDK

Andy wrote:

No worries

And, if you put this in your javascript section of your customization, you can personalize the message! (of course, edit to suit you...)

rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Andy Williams - Moon River Photography. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited."

mercphoto · January 19, 2006

Bear in mind that nothing that I am aware of can stop a screen capture. For this reason I continue to use water marking of images plus right-click protection.

flyingdutchie · January 20, 2006

mercphoto wrote:

Bear in mind that nothing that I am aware of can stop a screen capture. For this reason I continue to use water marking of images plus right-click protection.

Not only screen-capture, but people can lift the pics from their browser's cache as well.

There is no scheme that can completely prevent people from using a picture shown in a web-page for other uses. Watermarking works better for protection, but i just hate that large text through my pics.

Right click protection tells the viewer to leave my pics alone. If the viewer still lifts this pics out of the browser and uses it for his/her own purposes, they know they are doing someting wrong, like stealing apples at an open air market

Cammo · February 6, 2006

Andy wrote:

No worries

And, if you put this in your javascript section of your customization, you can personalize the message! (of course, edit to suit you...)

rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Andy Williams - Moon River Photography. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited."

Andy, I have tried this (I have a sand theme at the moment with some customization) but without luck. I entered

rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Cameron Laird - PHOTOGRAPHER. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited. For rights usage contact Cameron by email or on 0418 238811"

into my javascript section of customization and nothing at all. I think I might be overlooking something regarding themes and customization. Another example - I managed to change the footer on my home http://camlaird.smugmug.com to the mini smugmug footer however it is back to the large one on some other pages and some not. Is there a way to reset it all back to the original and start again?

Great if you could offer a tip!

Thanks,

Cammo

Andy · February 6, 2006

Cammo wrote:

Great if you could offer a tip!

Thanks,

Cammo

I'll try again in a few minutes....

Andy · February 6, 2006

It should work just fine I don't know why? You have the correct code. I'll ask JT later.

Andy · February 6, 2006

CAM

It's becuase you have APPEARANCE set to SMUGMUG in gallery settings. Change to CUSTOM on all your galleries

Solves both problems.

Cammo · February 6, 2006

Andy wrote:

I'll try again in a few minutes....

Hey, I figured it out. I hadn't set each individual gallery to use custom theme instead of just sand. Is there a way to set them all in one hit rather than going through and doing each one at a time?

Thanks heaps Andy!

Cammo

Cammo · February 6, 2006

Andy wrote:

CAM

It's becuase you have APPEARANCE set to SMUGMUG in gallery settings. Change to CUSTOM on all your galleries Solves both problems.

Too fast for me!!

MikeM · August 7, 2006

copyright symbol
Hi andy

Instead of emailing, I have been looking up the answers in the forum. However, one thing I can't figure out. How do I type in the "copyright " symbol in JAVA? I can do it in WORD, but this will not work.

Thanks

Mike M

flyingdutchie · August 7, 2006

MikeM wrote:

Hi andy

Instead of emailing, I have been looking up the answers in the forum. However, one thing I can't figure out. How do I type in the "copyright " symbol in JAVA? I can do it in WORD, but this will not work.

Thanks

Mike M

???? In "Java" ???

flyingdutchie · August 7, 2006

MikeM wrote:

Hi andy

Instead of emailing, I have been looking up the answers in the forum. However, one thing I can't figure out. How do I type in the "copyright " symbol in JAVA? I can do it in WORD, but this will not work.

Thanks

Mike M

Under Windows, you can type the ©, by pressing ALT-0169, like this:
- Press ALT key (don't release)
- On the num-pad press:
0
then 1
then 6
then 9
- release the ALT key.

MikeM · August 7, 2006

©
See, I CAN do it.

(It helps if you don't leave out the zero.)!

Mike M

dhaug · October 4, 2006

Andy wrote:

No worries

And, if you put this in your javascript section of your customization, you can personalize the message! (of course, edit to suit you...)

rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Andy Williams - Moon River Photography. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited."

I am not sure that I followed where it is that you do make the change to the right click warning

Andy · October 4, 2006

dhaug wrote:

I am not sure that I followed where it is that you do make the change to the right click warning

Hi, if you are a pro customer, you can put it in your javascript section, of your customization page. Control Panel>Customize

Holler if you need more help!

Pamela · October 17, 2006

Andy
Ok , I just noticed that Andy is away , sry
Anyone that can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Is this where , I place this warning if someone should try to drag a photo from my gallery?
Do I have it written correctly?

Andy · October 17, 2006

Pamela wrote:

Andy
Ok , I just noticed that Andy is away , sry
Anyone that can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Is this where , I place this warning if someone should try to drag a photo from my gallery?
Do I have it written correctly?

yup

Pamela · October 18, 2006

Andy wrote:

yup

Thankyou Andy !

I didnt expect to get a response from you, arent you out of town?

Thankyou for your great knowledge and dedication!

gavin · December 12, 2006

I have that code in my javascript box, but i can still right click and save a photo.??

jfriend · December 12, 2006

Did you turn on image protection for the gallery?

gavin wrote:

I have that code in my javascript box, but i can still right click and save a photo.??

To engage the image protection, you have to make sure you turn it on for the gallery. Go to customize gallery and, in the security and privacy section, set "protected" to "yes".

Then, when testing to see if it works by right clicking on those images, you should see your custom JavaScript message.

drdane · March 5, 2007

Andy wrote:

No worries

And, if you put this in your javascript section of your customization, you can personalize the message! (of course, edit to suit you...)

rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Andy Williams - Moon River Photography. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use is prohibited."

Hi, Andy

I tried this, with no effect. Gallery appearance is set to custom and protection is on.

Here's the script I inserted in Java:
rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Dane Roubos, Inner-Light-Images. All rights are reserved, and unauthorized use is a no-no. You can purchase a 1MB digital for your own personal use only, for $20 by selecting "Digital Download" under "Products" in the Shopping Cart."

Firebug (FF add-on) claimed there was an error with this, & that it should have a ";" in front of the statement. I tried that, and even one at the end, but that didn't work either.

Any clues?

Andy · March 5, 2007

drdane wrote:

Hi, Andy

I tried this, with no effect. Gallery appearance is set to custom and protection is on.

Here's the script I inserted in Java:
rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Dane Roubos, Inner-Light-Images. All rights are reserved, and unauthorized use is a no-no. You can purchase a 1MB digital for your own personal use only, for $20 by selecting "Digital Download" under "Products" in the Shopping Cart."

Firebug (FF add-on) claimed there was an error with this, & that it should have a ";" in front of the statement. I tried that, and even one at the end, but that didn't work either.

Any clues?

website link... we need it to help you.... pls also put it in your profile (You! upper left, dgrin screen).

drdane · March 5, 2007

Andy wrote:

website link... we need it to help you.... pls also put it in your profile (You! upper left, dgrin screen).

Oops! Here's the link: http://drdane.smugmug.com

Not sure what you mean by "profile-You!" if it is other than DrDane, which was in the last mssg I posted. ??? I don't see anything in the upper left of the dgrin page.

jfriend · March 5, 2007

drdane wrote:

Hi, Andy

I tried this, with no effect. Gallery appearance is set to custom and protection is on.

Here's the script I inserted in Java:
rightClickWarning = "All photos are © Dane Roubos, Inner-Light-Images. All rights are reserved, and unauthorized use is a no-no. You can purchase a 1MB digital for your own personal use only, for $20 by selecting "Digital Download" under "Products" in the Shopping Cart."

Firebug (FF add-on) claimed there was an error with this, & that it should have a ";" in front of the statement. I tried that, and even one at the end, but that didn't work either.

Any clues?

As Andy said, we can't really figure this out without knowing what your web site is. But, I can see right away that your message isn't following the proper rules for the JavaScript language syntax. You can't have embedded quotes in your message the way you have it. The first thing to try is to change your message to something very simple that doesn't have any quote marks in it except at the beginning and end. Once that works, we can help you add internal quotations if you really need that. As it is, this statement creates JavaScript errors making it get ignored and potentially messing up other stuff in the page too.

Try changing your statement to:

rightClickWarning = "Do not do this.";

or something that simple and when that works, you can make it more involved.

Andy · March 5, 2007

drdane wrote:

Oops! Here's the link: http://drdane.smugmug.com

Not sure what you mean by "profile-You!" if it is other than DrDane, which was in the last mssg I posted. ??? I don't see anything in the upper left of the dgrin page.

Dane, UPPER left of the Dgrin Screen. You! Click it. Then put your website in your profile.

Follow the instructions exactly as on our FAQ: http://www.smugmug.com/help/customize-faq.mg #20.

I fixed it for you, you had lots of extra " quotes in your right click text.

drdane · March 5, 2007

Andy wrote:

Dane, UPPER left of the Dgrin Screen. You! Click it. Then put your website in your profile.

Follow the instructions exactly as on our FAQ: http://www.smugmug.com/help/customize-faq.mg #20.

I fixed it for you, you had lots of extra " quotes in your right click text.

Thanks for that, Andy! I noticed that there is a ; after the close quote in FAQ#20, but not in your Post#4 example in this thread, which is where I started this little adventure.

Took some lookig, but I finally found the You! and installed my site. I haven't used that drop down menu bar before - always more to learn!

Thanks!

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