Protecting images

Looking for advice/clues...
I see some people convert images with and what appears to be a animated transparent image rolling over the top into a flash so that you can see it but even a screen snapshot or whatever still makes it pretty much unusable / theft proof. I guess this would be ideal if I had some clues and the tools otherwise I was considering trying to find a multi-line rolling animated gif and just laying it on top and living with just this animated gif as at least a fairly good protection but I need something that is at least painful to piece back into a usable image.
Such a rolling image link clues where I might be able to find something usuable, tools, or recommendations appreciated. One of the places I typically see this kind of work done is on tattoo galleries etc. Not doing tattoo's but an association Journal available only to members but I still don't want them downloading and sharing pages.

ya mean like this? http://www.tattoofinder.com/find_tattooDB.asp?txtKeyword=cat&Ktype=1&txtIsAdult=yes&NewSearch=yes

i have no idea. but if you expect your site to be accessable thats not gonna work, im legally blind and cant make heads or tails of that image because of that.

Yes something like that exactly, when I started searching that's the same site I found ;)

I want to make online copies of old printed journals available to members but I don't want people to be able to download of copy them. If they want the content they need to order a hard copy.

Use an image program to print overlays onto your stock.




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I agree with sxi, Just put a large watermark across the front of it. Its simple, most image editors can do it, Hard to copy/paste without getting the watermark with it. Cropping is also difficult.


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That was my original intention, they deem that not good enough...
A watermark leaves it readable when "stolen" they want something not readable except on-line and "moving" watermark makes it not readable unless you do multiple snaps and have lots of pain...

This is why I was also just looking for a nice animated wave gif I could use to watermark the whole image makes it at least not re-printable.
I think I can turn a single image into a flash...

I'm working with the paranoid/unreasonable crowd.

I honestly believe anything else is over kill. The exception is to make sure the resolution on those images are low enough that it wouldn't do anybody any good to print them especially commercially.
I never seen an animated watermark, so I can't really help there.
Good luck though and may you find piece with your clients.

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I'm working with the paranoid/unreasonable crowd.

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Appeal to their paranoia with logic. Let them know that by using a flash solution it would actually make it *easier* for someone to rip off the works. The flash file will obviously contain the work, and the content can quite easily be extracted from the flash container in it's uncensored format using downloadable tools.

A large "Copyright Blah.com" embedded diagonally across the stock work is far better "protection"




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Good point and I agree totally. I have seen this happen myself. Awhile Back Newtek the makers of Lightwave ran a promotion where the users would find the clues about the next version of lightwave.
Anyway some of the users were able to decompile the flash file and get full access to the clues. Some of those clues were hard enough that newtek assumed it would at minimum take a weekend to figure out. Becasue of the few that decompiled the flash files the clues were put onto the forum with in minutes to a few hours instead of the weekend.
So believe me if you embed a full resolution file inside of a flash file someone will have full acces to that file.

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