Photos – is is possible stop image theft?

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  oneshotbeary · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 3:36 pm

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  Hi,

  Is there a way that photos on my blog can be ‘locked down’ so when someone clicks on them they don’t have the option to right-click and save them?

  Thanks

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 5:00 pm

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  Short answer is you can’t prevent image theft, right click disable is a fools feeling of security and is easy to get around, don’t put anything on the internet you don’t want stolen.

  Longer answer, watermark the images, scale the images down and compress it like crazy. A professional photographer friend jokes about the pictures on his site “they can maybe print a postcard for the refrigerator”

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 5:08 pm

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  This will also help a bit: http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/

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  oneshotbeary · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 5:16 pm

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  thanks auxclass, appreciate the reply. just wish the world was more honest! ….. i hate scaling down my images but just has to be done i think!

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 5:26 pm

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  Your are welcome

  Photographers have trouble with the scale images down thing, you have spent years learning how to make larger images look great, then we tell you to go back years and scale them down so a large picture looks like it was taken with a disposable camera

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  oneshotbeary · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 6:23 pm

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  yes that is it!

  is there a way to put a ‘right click disable’ on wordpress? at least it will be something!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 9, 2014 at 6:38 pm

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  See here please where I covered all of this > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/02/19/how-to-disable-right-click/