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I'm doing a web portfolio for my eldest daughter, its to display her artwork.. what is the best way to make it impossible to to steal images? I guess screen capture is the big problem *god those feckin banners are doing my head in!*

LOL... yeah, you really can't do it. If it display on screen, then there is nothing that you can do to prevent it from being screen captured – save for dumping everything in a PDF (I seem to recall that PDF could prevent against screen capture). The best thing you can do is just post fairly low-res images that will be worthless for reproduction. And if you don't want to make it easy for people to right click and use the "download image" feature, then you can apply everything as a background image on an HTML block element.

I believe my dad keeps his low quality and in a swf. With the low quality, there isn't much of a chance anyone will take them, unless to make a crapy website.

Yeah, that could be.... I got one of those iPod ones today at work... but don't get them at home. Though flash crashed 3 times at work (probably loading one of those banners) while browsing the forums

I thought about Flash, slicing the image, or a layer over the image One tattoo site i saw, gave you a different image if you tried to click and save lol There is a websafe thing that disables the print screen but it also disables everything around it, which would give the impression it was a virus to the casual browser, all my windows tabs etc stopped working will the page was open! and at $185 tiz way beyond my means It also does PDF The kid's being paranoid, but she's very protective about her work I keep getting an annoying shaking banner which makes the windows death sound lol.. todays are slightly better.. i'm a winner! and "find your perfect lovers name!" Does anyone ever bother clicking them.. the odd google one i did

You COULD put a translucent copywrite line over the images, but that takes away from the work. To be honest, when I was putting my photos online, I figured 600px wide was good enough to see on screen, but useless for printing off, so who would bother? Nobody can take a low-rez image and pass it off as their own work... people arn't that stupid

I'm doing a web portfolio for my eldest daughter, its to display her artwork.. what is the best way to make it impossible to to steal images? I guess screen capture is the big problem The kid's being paranoid, but she's very protective about her work I was also going to suggest watermarks. You can also write a javascript snippet which makes an alert pop up when anyone right clicks anywhere on the page, can't remember where I saw that (on some Sound FX site). Screen capture will always be a problem though. That's the copyright issue on the web for you - you will never be able to prevent stealing when displaying your art on the internet - it's one of the trade-offs you have to accept, I guess. Personally, I don't think redistribution is such a bad thing? Why not digitally sign the pics as well (meta tags and such), so that others will at least see who the author was? P.S. About those banners: If you're using FF, try using the extension called AdBlock Plus. Works like a charm for me!

Wow, I installed that, and there isn't even a banner at the top of the page.

thanks for all the tips guys :D now i just need to do the site lol