1. It prevents people from right-clicking to open other parts of your website in a new tab or window.
2. It prevents people from right-clicking to open links to other websites that you have on your site.
3. It prevents people from right-clicking to bookmark your website.
4. It prevents people with web-based email accounts (like Hotmail and Yahoo, etc) from right-clicking to copy your email address in order to send you an email.
5. It doesn’t stop people who know they can view your site’s source code to get the URL of an image and steal it that way.
6. It doesn’t stop people who know they can do a Print Screen to copy the page the image is on; and then they can use any graphics program to crop the photo they want and save it.
7. If your script generates a message like, “Don’t Steal My Images,” you can offend your customers who were trying to do no such thing, and send them on their merry way…to someone else’s website.

If you really want to protect your images, there’s one easy solution: watermark them! You can do this yourself with a graphics program; there are even websites that allow you to do it online. Or you can pay someone to do it for you. Either way, that is the best way to protect your website’s images.

For further reading…

Watermarking Photos

Graphics Tools

]]> http://www.onlinebusinessjunction.com/2009/12/right-click-much/feed/ 0 http://www.onlinebusinessjunction.com/2009/07/watermarking-photos/ http://www.onlinebusinessjunction.com/2009/07/watermarking-photos/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:05:56 +0000 admin http://www.onlinebusinessjunction.com/?p=467 I have urged people many times to watermark their product photos for their websites. I know it needs to be done and it does help give you a measure of security against copyright infringement. But did I ever do it myself? Um, (embarrassed to admit) no. And so imagine my irritation when I was “window shopping” on Ebay last night, only to find 3 of my own product photos on someone’s listing! Consider me reformed!

I went on the hunt for a watermarking tool that would allow me to watermark multiple photos at one time. After all, watermarking every single product photo on a retail site is not exactly a quick process. So I was pleased to find a program that would allow me to do just that, and I want to share the link with you.

Visual Watermark

This program was very easy to use and allowed me to upload many photos at once. It’s even possible to save the watermark you create so that you just choose it and re-use it whenever you need to. It still took me about 4-5 hours to get the job done, but I’m sure that it would have been 4-5 days without this program. Now I have watermarked photos for all my website products, which obviously I should have done long ago. But at least now I’ve got a little bit of means to prevent this from happening in the future.

Learn from my mistake, everyone. Watermark your photos now!