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    Default Shrink Wrapping to stop image thieves

    Has anyone tried this method of protection?

    http://skinnyartist.com/how-to-shrink-wrap-your-images/

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    killing the r-click NEVER WORKED and is royally annoying

    the page info and data will STILL have the image

    all you do is ROYALLY PI$$es OFF NORMAL USERS!!!!!!!

    HERE it the image that was "shrink wrapped" !!!!!!!!


    dose NOT WORK
    and ****es pepole off that want to look at a larger version
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    As a user and images lurker, i like to be able to see a decent resolution of an image, as well as being able to download it. I generally am happy to have a watermark on the downloaded image, and to know that the full-res one is much bigger.
    That is especially true for maps: to print them you need a rather good resolution.

    For my works - not maps, but i'm a scenery sculptor with a reasonable productivity - i simply add a watermark. I found my pics around more than once, but with the limitations above.

    EDIT: Here's a link to the allegedly protected image of the link above:
    http://skinnyartist.com/wp-content/u...p3-300x199.jpg

    And here the link to the full resolution image, which is trivial to find just changing the url.
    http://skinnyartist.com/wp-content/u...05/hndsup3.jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galendae View Post
    Has anyone tried this method of protection?

    http://skinnyartist.com/how-to-shrink-wrap-your-images/
    That's an interesting idea, Galendae, but I can't really see how this would work on the forum. I suppose it if was possible it would be great as an option to tickbox on particular maps, like those you just want to get some advice about, and not to publish just yet - the kind of maps that someone else is paying you to keep strictly 'forum only', or the contract would be rendered void

    It would work to stop most of the casual thieves who don't know how to get underneath the wrapping.

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    i like to be able to zoom in
    like this - see all the jpg compression artifacts !


    took me less that 20 seconds to acquire the REAL url
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    Yeah took me about 20 secs as well:
    http://skinnyartist.com/wp-content/u...p3-300x199.jpg

    So I think we can definitively declare the idea of shrink wrapping as useless.
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    Watermark is about it then.

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    Galendae, have you seen Redrobes' watermarking tool? Perhaps it might help protect your images.

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    I think you absolutely have to modify the pixles since thats the only bit that is the valuable bit of the image. Everything else can be stripped off the image. If you can see it in a browser then you can access the image. Somehow it was downloaded and no browser does DRM effectively (and I would not want it to either).

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    and NO, you do not need to be a web genius to figure it out...just look through the source info...took me about 2 min...
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