IMGCarver - splits an image up and then places it into frames.
That's Not a Picture actually converts the image into an intricate series of tables with background colors generating the original image.
Won't stop people from taking screenshots. Like Giaguara said, the only real way is to not provide the visual information in the first place by using low-resolution or low-quality images.
you can also use flash gordon to download ANY flash movie and pull it apart. that costs someone a total of about US$69 (or was it $99? i can't recall). site sucker et al. can also make quick work of downloading any non-password protected areas in one fell swoop.
just do what every online image house does.
first, watermark your name and/or with a screen and the lightest noise you can muster inside the watermark area (and possibly just within the blue channel... you can set up a photoshop action to churn through dozens of photos like this). they'll NEVER get that out.
second, make the thumbs small, and make them click to at least a second or third screen for a usable size (the second screen can be "which size would you like to view," with the thumbnail showing still... it basically works to web viewers tendencies to avoid extra clicks and page loads.
third, you can store the full-size images in a password-protected compression format, and they need to register/send you an e-mail to get the password. unfortunately, that pisses off more people than not.
fourth, MAKE SURE to use photoshop's annotations and watermark features. comes in handy later if necessary, because NO ONE ever thinks to strip that out when they download the images from elsewhere. 'course, doesn't help when they modify your pic into a montage or something, but hey, every little bit helps.
Years ago I was on some site with random funny pictures on it, and when I tried to save one of them a error dialog popped up saying something like "Nuh-uh, no right clicking" Making it a real pain in the ass to save any of them.
Worst case, people can do a cmd-shift-4 selection grab.
There's a CLI command called tcpflow. I forget where I found it, but it not only shows what traffic is moving in and out like tcpdump, it shows package contents. I actually tried using this with iTunes streaming, with limited success.
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Originally posted by bauman
Here are two little apps that might help you:
IMGCarver - splits an image up and then places it into frames.
That's Not a Picture actually converts the image into an intricate series of tables with background colors generating the original image.
Won't stop people from taking screenshots. Like Giaguara said, the only real way is to not provide the visual information in the first place by using low-resolution or low-quality images.
Originally posted by a_greer
some people use flash, you can use flash for images and thats pretty hard to grab/extract the graphic
Shift-Command-3. Have a nice day.
just do what every online image house does.
first, watermark your name and/or with a screen and the lightest noise you can muster inside the watermark area (and possibly just within the blue channel... you can set up a photoshop action to churn through dozens of photos like this). they'll NEVER get that out.
second, make the thumbs small, and make them click to at least a second or third screen for a usable size (the second screen can be "which size would you like to view," with the thumbnail showing still... it basically works to web viewers tendencies to avoid extra clicks and page loads.
third, you can store the full-size images in a password-protected compression format, and they need to register/send you an e-mail to get the password. unfortunately, that pisses off more people than not.
fourth, MAKE SURE to use photoshop's annotations and watermark features. comes in handy later if necessary, because NO ONE ever thinks to strip that out when they download the images from elsewhere. 'course, doesn't help when they modify your pic into a montage or something, but hey, every little bit helps.
Originally posted by iBrowse
Years ago I was on some site with random funny pictures on it, and when I tried to save one of them a error dialog popped up saying something like "Nuh-uh, no right clicking" Making it a real pain in the ass to save any of them.
Worst case, people can do a cmd-shift-4 selection grab.
Originally posted by johnq
Besides you can just cobble the path from the page source, or via TCP stream. You can CURL the images via commandline, etc.
Johnq: How does one view the TCP stream?