How do I disable the right click "save as" option for an imgae?

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I'm doing a website for an artist. He doesn't want visitors to be able to
"save" his images from the website. I know I've been to sites where the right
click "save as" has been disabled.

How is this done?
 
How do I stop people from downloading my graphics or code?

http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/web1/how_do_i_stop_downloading.htm

http://www.jimcoaddins.com/protect.htm
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| I'm doing a website for an artist. He doesn't want visitors to be able to
| "save" his images from the website. I know I've been to sites where the
right
| click "save as" has been disabled.
|
| How is this done?
 
Quick overview- if a person can see the image on a screen,
it is already saved to their computer. The only way to
prevent someone from taking an image is not to put it on a
page. There are scripts (which are considered amateurish)
that will TRY and prevent this, but the people who want the
image will just disable javascript and now that script no
longer works. People can also just save the webpage and
it's all there too

Mike


Avatar33 wrote:
: I'm doing a website for an artist. He doesn't want
: visitors to be able to "save" his images from the
: website. I know I've been to sites where the right click
: "save as" has been disabled.
:
: How is this done?
 
Hi,
Presumably your client is selling his artwork? If so I'd put some kind of
text through the image such as "sample image" - the potential customer can
see the quality of his work but the image itself wouldn't be worth
"stealing". As for these no right click scripts anyone that knows computers
will know how to bypass them, it might keep out a few users though.

There's also a classic answer to this question "don't put the images on the
web" - but then you won't make much money :-)
 
Jon is right on this one with placing a watermark on the image of sort.
Otherwise, it is easy enough to hit your "Print Screen" on the page and then
paste it into your photo editor, etc. Not many use this method, but it
works. Other programs like Snagit do the same thing. So yes, the watermark
is ideal.
Sam
 
As soon as you view the site, the images are downloaded in order to view them -
i.e. the entire site is downloaded to the user's computer (to the web cache/temp
internet files). I suggest he put low-res images (or water-mark them) and if
he's selling them, then make available the good quality images once they've been
purchased.

The no-right-click is done with javascript; but there are ways around these
scripts (like turning Javascript off in the browser) or using the "Save As" from
the File menu , and save the whole page, including the images, so it defeats the
purpose.
 
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