Preventing Screen captures

**Lemur** · 11-06-2006, 19:03

The usual solution is to post either a watermarked or small-rez file on the public site, and make the full-resolution image only available to subscribers. At least, I know that's how most stock photo agencies do it. I'm not aware of any workaround for a full-resolution image. If they can see it, they can grab it.

**x-dANGEr** · 11-06-2006, 19:11

Well.. Simply, to view a thing it needs to be DL-ed on your PC (Somehow).. So, I can't see how you are going to do that..

**Mithrandir** · 11-06-2006, 19:15

Flash file does not give away the picture file, right ?

**Lemur** · 11-06-2006, 19:16

Not necessarily true. A clever user can "print" from flash, thus capturing the full image. Sorry.

**Mithrandir** · 11-06-2006, 19:18

Watermark it is

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**Krypta** · 11-06-2006, 19:58

Originally Posted by Lemur

Not necessarily true. A clever user can "print" from flash, thus capturing the full image. Sorry.

If you want to prevent a user from being able to "Print" just add '!#p' to the Frame name in the properties inspector of the frame where the image is. This will disable the abilty to "Print" in the resulting .swf.

**Lemur** · 11-07-2006, 15:32

That's a very helpful tip -- thanks, Krypta. Still doesn't address the problem of people with good timing hitting the "print screen" button, but it makes life more difficult for the would-be image thief.

**R'as al Ghul** · 11-07-2006, 17:00

What if I have the flash developing kit and just download the whole flash?
Wouldn't I be able to rip it apart and save the pieces I want?

My point is that you can't really control access if you put it on a webpage, do you? After all you accept that people "download" it by making it publicly accessible in the first place. Since visiting a site means I download it......

For example, I browse a lot of photo sites and save pics from them. Partly to get inspiration, partly because I like to have it accesible on my machine. I don't intend any plagiarism nor do I intend to do anything else illegal. Some of this sites had the "right click save as" function disabled. Which in my opinion is completely pointless. I would just go to the harddisk cache and move it from there to the folder I intended it to save to. It's not as convenient but works. Of course with Firefox you can just disable the disabling of functions.

R'as