Can anyone tell me how to protect a picture posted on a website. I want to post my wedding pictures and don't want anyone to be able to download them. How can you prevent photos from being downloaded and saved on a webpage. I know that you can usually right click on it and save image as. Can this be stopped and how about saving the page, can you prevent the picture from being saved? Thank you

You can use JavaScript to prevent the right click, but if the picture is able to be displayed there is always a way to save it, and there is no way to stop the person from doing so.

Its impossible to protect the image that way. Whatever javascripts or watermarking you use.. Someone can prtscrn the page and paste it into paint. The only real image protection wont stop someone from downloading.. its meant to curb editing more than anything.

If you dont want them to download the pic...dont put the picture up;) Thats about all you can do. Besides, is it really *bad* for ppl to save your pic...would they really want to?

How do you think all those pics ended up on uglypeople.com? If you want to offer the image up for family/friend viewing you can put it in a private directory.. block the engines from ranking it.

1 - if you have access to the software to create PDF files, you can put the pictures in PDF file that doesn't allow selection it's contents. That probably wouldn't prevent screen shots, but... At www.adobe.com, I believe that I once found a link to a service that would create PDF files for you. You send them a source document (Word, etc) and they'd return the PDF file to you. If I remember correctly, the first five were free, then you could subscribe for something like $10 per year. 2 - if you have some basic javascript ability, you can go to www.dynamicdrive.com and use their javascript password code (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/password.htm). It isn't 'foolproof' but someone would have to put in a good amount of work to get around the password page. Also, you'd have to give out the login/password to people that you want to access the site.

Try displaying the images in a Java applet - complicated to do, but good protection. I've also found, many times, that I can't save web pages with rotating images(slideshows using javascript) using Internet Explorer (probably an IE browser cache problem). I will post the Java code for loading the images into an applet if anyone is interested.