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  bethlouisew · Member · Sep 5, 2014 at 7:56 pm

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  How can I make my images copyright?

  I want to make my images unable to be copy and pasted or saved by the public, yet I still want them to be able to view them. How am I able to do this?

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  futureswitch · Member · Sep 6, 2014 at 1:36 am

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  Hi, Beth. I don’t think you’re going to be able to do that. Even if you could, someone who really wanted to copy your image could simply take a screenshot. A better option would be to apply a watermark to the images. Of course, it’s a bit of an art form to add a watermark in such a way that it’s useless to steal the image, while not obscuring the image so much that no one wants to look at it.

  There are various ways to go about it, but here’s one:
  http://dgrin.smugmug.com/Tutorials/SmugMug-Site-Stuff/Create-Transparent-Watermarks/1690196_KPN4FQ

  Cheers,
  -Brian