Protecting Images on Your Website
Protecting Images on Your Website with a Watermark
What's to stop people from right clicking and saving your copyright protected images from your site ? There are several third party solutions that claim to protect images on your website but these are far from foolproof and cost money. It's my position that nothing beats old-fashioned watermark techniques to protect your images.
 Example of a watermark created in Photoshop to protect medical related icons or clipart. |
Right click protection of images is not a solution for the following reasons:
1. It does not prevent users that have manually disabled JavaScript in their browsers.
2. Even if the right click function was disabled using JavaScript what's to stop someone from saving the entire page, e.g. Internet Explorer - Page > Save As (this saves all code and images)
3. This does not prevent click and drag which is the simplest method for saving images on Windows XP
4. And if those methods failed for a user, they could resort to the simple Print Screen.
The best solution is to create a watermark on all images you wish to protect.
You can use a program like Photoshop to create a template file for your desired watermark. Watermarks should provide just enough distortion to make the image unusable but with enough clarity to properly represent your images to prospective clients. Some watermakes will say things like "Sample" or "Copy Protected" so that your visitors know the purpose of this intentional distortion.
Easy Tool For Adding Watermarks to Your Images
WinWatermark is a professional watermark creation solution for Windows that can create either opaque or translucent watermarks to protect your artwork or photos. It can read your digital images from a file including JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, and other commonly used formats. Simply add a watermark to the image and save the watermarked image as a new file of the same type, or choose a different image format for output.
WinWatermark Features:
- Add visible text and image watermarks to your digital images and photos.
- Convert any format images to JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and TGA formats.
- Import an export watermarking projects.
- Rotate, crop and resize your images in one step.
- Rename your images using powerful custom template.
- Process all images in batch mode.
- Powerful image processing engine inside.
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Top 3 reasons to choose WinWatermark:
1. High speed and superior image quality.
WinWatermark includes an Image Processing Engine, which is much faster than others. The powerful Image Processing Engine is based on MMX- SSE & 3DNow! Technology, and provides advanced, high speed conversion and resizing methods. It can process a large number of images in just a few seconds.
2. Supports popular image file formats
WinWatermark includes an Image Decode/Encode Engine, which can read and write popular image formats. You don't need any other image converter software to convert your images. You just choose your output file format to generate them.
3. Easy to use software
WinWatermark lets you process images in an easy and efficient way. You can add your watermark in visual mode (what you see is what you get).
WinWatermark runs on Microsoft Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista.