Right Click Protect my images

[bada_bing]

I am looking for a way to protect my uploaded images on my VB Forum. I am using photopost and there is a built in feature that prevents anyone from right clicking on any photo's stopping them from "save as" and downloading the image, Is there a way I can protect my images that member uploaded to my site?

[Josh1]

There is a way to disable rightclick on all the forums if you want?

[jluerken]

I know two methods.

First is a java script that blocks right click.
Second is smarter but harder to implement.

All images should become table backgrounds with a transparent .gif image on top. The only thing users will download is the transparent gif then

Example

<table background="image.jpg" width="200" height="50">
<tr>
<td><img src="transparent.gif" width="200" height="50"></td>
</tr>
</table>

Those methods are not realy preventing people from taking your images.
They still can access them if the look at the page source and download them directly.
You can visible watermark your images if you run a gallery and add an invisible watermark for all other images on your page.

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by jluerken

I know two methods.

First is a java script that blocks right click.
Second is smarter but harder to implement.

All images should become table backgrounds with a transparent .gif image on top. The only thing users will download is the transparent gif then

Example

<table background="image.jpg" width="200" height="50">
<tr>
<td><img src="transparent.gif" width="200" height="50"></td>
</tr>
</table>

Those methods are not realy preventing people from taking your images.
They still can access them if the look at the page source and download them directly.
You can visible watermark your images if you run a gallery and add an invisible watermark for all other images on your page.

How do you run a visible and invisible watermark on images already uploaded? I tried a hack that another member on this site posted that adds a .png image over an uploaded image but unfortently it only works for images that are uploaded after you install the hack and not the already posted images