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KnittingLadybird

silent right click block code

I found this whilst browsing something totally different...but I know some of you had problems with others taking your pics and I wondered if this was the answer.
I'm not sure if it will work on blogs but i'm pretty sure that will lead us onto how to do it in blogs etc...at least it's a start and it might work Very Happy

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franney · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:15 am Post subject:

The problem with that is that it will only work if the "stealer" has Javascript turned on in their browser Confused

If it's someone who isn't very computer savvy then chances are that they won't know that though and it will work, but i am not sure it'll work in Blogger as although you can edit the HTML you aren't working directly ont he source code and that's where it needs to go Confused

There is also another code that i used to use that displays another picture in it's place when you hover over the picture (does that make sense??) but from what i can remember that uses Javascript too Confused

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KnittingLadybird · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject:

ah bummer I know what you mean Franney. personally I think we should all lobby blogger and get them to come up with something then Very Happy

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franney · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject:

It would be good if they could, certainly.
The only really safe way to protect your images from being used by others is to watermark them or not to show them at all unfortunately Sad

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KnittingLadybird · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:57 pm Post subject:

yeah....i'm ok though. Mine are usually cruddy so nobody nicks them lol
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franney · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject:

I'm safe now too, i once had a whole website "stolen" - layout, graphics, code, the lot! Evil or Very Mad

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KnittingLadybird · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:

oh that's bad...but I have sourced others peoples blogs to make mine work...not that i've actually nicked anything but I have 'lost' things on my blog so I found the codes again.

having an entire site nicked though is just pants and laziness!!!
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paula · Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 402 Location: UK

daisydap · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 2236

you can easily watermark all of your pictures using a photo editing program.

do you see my name imprinted on the picture, i used to do it all the time as i made 'fantasy' pictures, either for use as a signature or to print out, this particular one i made for my sister.

i learnt a lot of my techniques using msn groups, this one http://groups.msn.com/MadisonAveTutorials/avesiteindex2.msnw is particularly good.

i agree that a right click stopper would be most helpful, but in the meantime, hopefully watermarking your work will put a stop to people nicking photos.
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franney · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:57 am Post subject:

Daisy, there are all sorts of problems associated with tagging and using tubes and watermarking other people's work. It's one of the reasons i stopped doing it to be honest. There are some very (can't think of the word right now) people who take other people's artwork, tube it and make it available to the internet at large and really they shouldn't be - when you take someone else's artwork and make a tag or picture from it and then put your own watermark on it without crediting the origional artist (not the tuber, although a lot of them want credit too!) that is as good as stealing too. It's such dodgy territory!
I was in a lot of the artists groups as i worked my way toward being more copyright aware and things were changing a few years ago - i would assume that things are very different now.
By the way, i just wanted to add, i am not directing this at you personally Daisy, i am just not the type of person who feels cofortable writing "one" instead of "you" Wink

Paula, yep, it happens more often than you'd think! All you need to do is to copy the source code from a webpage and any associated graphics and then you can alter it and upload it and claim it as your own - only when you do it, you need to make sure you remove the original creator's personal code or they can tell what you've done! Evil or Very Mad

You've got me wondering now if any of my websites are still active, i have played with them for ages!

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