Protecting photos

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  birdseyeviewblogsite · Member · May 17, 2016 at 10:09 am

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  I want to prevent people from using my photos, but I’m not sure if such a setting is available. Thank you for your help!

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  andrewspittle · Staff · May 17, 2016 at 7:25 pm

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  There isn’t any way to prevent people from downloading your photos. My best recommendation would be to add a watermark on the images before you upload them.

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  timethief · Member · May 17, 2016 at 7:26 pm

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  For images what’s best for your wordpress.com hosted blog is watermarking your images or not placing any images and/or text that you don’t to be subject to theft, on the internet at all.

  If you use the Duotone theme right click is disabled via CSS but that’s not available on any other themes. This is because anyone can find instructions on the internet and get around it in less than 20 seconds flat.

  For clarity you can read what Staff said here about Duotone https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-disable-right-click-on-photos?replies=5#post-1659713 but in the end the effect still means the answer is the same one I posted above.

  You may also want to read Perspectives on Watermarks (and Various Methods to Protect Your Images). A roundup of opinions and processes on adding watermarks to images online, from nine WordPress photographers. https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/watermarks/