FLICKR and people saving photos

tororosso

Hi there, I was just wondering whether somebody could tell me is there any way to prevent people from saving photos put up on Flickr onto their PC?!

I guess I am interested because I notice that they say on their website that preventing people doing this is not foolproof but yet when you look at some photographers' hosted web pages you are not even able to right click for options over the displayed photos (which are incidentally for sale)...

DaireQuinlan

In short, no. You can make it more difficult for people who don't know how to do it but it's trivial to get over the type of restrictions that places like flickr put in play, or those irritating scripts that stop right clicks.

Ghost Train

I think flickr can put a blank image over your images so when somebody right clicks and saves they don't get the picture, just the blank

But anybody can take a screen capture of what they see on their screen, so really its simple enough to save a copy of anything on any webpage, only thing you can do is restrict the size or quality that you put up

dazftw

Resize every photo to 500 or 800px on the longest side before you upload it. It wont be useable for printing that way and also saves space if you dont have a pro account.

peter1892

There is an option which will only allow people on your contacts list to view the full size images (i.e. the images you get from the 'all sizes' button). And I think this means that anyone now on your list can't right click & download the images.

As mentioned already, uploading a maximum size of 800 pixels is a good idea.

tororosso

Thanks guys I guess it is pretty difficult to prevent people from lifting them altogether but what you say about resizing the photos to 800 pixels is a pretty good idea!

I guess they could also be watermarked too but it does kind of ruin the photo a bit...hmm

Peter1892: If what you say about the contact list is true that is pretty darn handy! Could also set the profile up to contacts only hmmm!

Does anybody use the Flickr Pro account? and as its Pro I presume you can use it to sell photos?!

peter1892

The option for restricting access to the photos is in the 'your account' section under 'privacy & permissions'.

A pro account is a paid account that allows you do upload more photos, create more sets etc but you can't use it to sell photos (it's all in the community guidelines/terms of service). There are other sites that you can sel through (e.g. Redbubble).

ED E

If you went to the hassle of setting up a personal site you could make a flash stream and make it slightly harder to copy but screencaps will always prevail.

The only real answer is small images.

Slidinginfinity

Anything displayed on a computer can be saved to the computer. The Print Screen (Prnt Scrn) button has been around a long time.

FX Meister

Ghost Train wrote: »

I think flickr can put a blank image over your images so when somebody right clicks and saves they don't get the picture, just the blank

But anybody can take a screen capture of what they see on their screen, so really its simple enough to save a copy of anything on any webpage, only thing you can do is restrict the size or quality that you put up

That doesnt work. In firefox you just right click and then select block image and then it gets rid of their blank image