What risk do I take with sharing and ext link?

Philmar · July 25, 2008

As the title says, what risk do I take if I enable the share button and ext link so I can send emails to previous customers. I have max size of large and I do have right click protection on. What I do is when I upload a new gallery that has photos of previous customers I send them an email through smugmug with a photo of there son/daughter, I have seen some sales from this method, just want to make sure I am not losing sales???
Thanks
Phil
www.philmarphoto.smugmug.com

Andy · July 25, 2008

Try it! Use some dummy images and send 'em out - put 'em in a forum or blog. You'll see

They are not protected once off of SmugMug

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

Philmar · July 26, 2008

Thanks Andy,
But I need some more clarification...whats noy protected??? this one image that I send out with a watermark and no larger than the "large size" or is there a way they can get to the original???? This can be a great tool but why have it if it just causes all kinds of problems for the pro account trying to sell photos ???
Phil

denisegoldberg · July 26, 2008

Philmar wrote:

Thanks Andy,
But I need some more clarification...whats noy protected??? this one image that I send out with a watermark and no larger than the "large size" or is there a way they can get to the original???? This can be a great tool but why have it if it just causes all kinds of problems for the pro account trying to sell photos ???
Phil

The right click protection only works within smugmug, and it should be viewed as a deterrent only. If the image is shown on a computer it is in the browser cache and can be "grabbed".

That said, if you block the original from view, it can't be accessed at all.

And if you only expose the large size in the way that you're describing - that size is not large enough to get a decent quality print. Do a test - right click save one of your large images and compare that to the size of the original. I think you'll see that the large is tiny.

--- Denise

Andy · July 26, 2008

Hi Phil,

Any size you link externally and show on a forum, blog, or email is not protected. Put a watermark on your shots, for the best protection, IMO.

Photos in your gallery are right-click protected.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-watermark-protection

What risk do I take with sharing and ext link?

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