Protecting images

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dustrg
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Post by dustrg »

Though it might go to court, the best you can do is hold the original image.

You can include a watermark. But just a little manipulation of the image, and the watermark can easily be lost. All identifying data can be lost. If you post it, they can copy it. It's more difficult to clone out a visible watermark. If you place it mostly over the image, itself, it might be very difficult. But do you want to post images like that?

If you can't use printscreen, if the image is too big, the browser will list the file in memory, the file under View Info, or the like, and it can be downloaded from there as a specific image file. It's a still image, not something one streams in. It's easier to protect video streams.

You could post fairly low quality, and small size, images. It wouldn't give a thief much to work with. But, again, do you want to do that?

I think the best thing is to keep the original, and maybe crop a little from that. If you made significant lighting changes, burning, dodging, etc, in addition to the extra image outside the margins of that posted, you could show to a court that it's much more likely that it was your original image. But then, how do you know someone is using your image, or particularly to make money for themselves? You may never find out.
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