Re: Anybody using Walter's Gardens images

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

Let me make it clear Susan hasn't been a problem at all in this - she's
just representing the company and it's decisions.  I'm not in any way
suggesting this is her responsibility to set the policy.  She also has no
responsibility for giving us tech solutions (imho) and I didn't ask her.
Given my traffic push from images, there's no way I'm going to hobble my
site or spend time individually hand-coding images to promote somebody's
plants. So the "how" wasn't my concern.  I just want to make sure I'm
within the guidelines of all nurseries who provide images.

As to "how" there are a great many ways and Chris L. and I have discussed
them offlist more than once. Bottom line?  Not a damn thing you can do if
somebody really wants your images.  You can make it tricky and harder for
the average reader (as Betty points out one technique that does indeed work
for the average person).  A second skill level involves looking at the
underlying code for the images and sucking it down from that code (the
simple commands for looking at code vary from browser to browser - often
just a right click ) :-)   Chris even wrote some software that broke the
images into smaller bits - put them back together again when the page was
loaded and they were still stolen. So there's no system that will work all
the time.

For those using Wordpress, do a search for Best Wordpress Image Protection
Plugin - and you'll be given a ton of options.   Understand you'll be
killing Pinterst at the same time and that's a call only you can make.

Again imho - the key here for those of us who have blogs/websites or
nursery products is that images are the current coin of the realm for
driving social media traffic and interest.  They're (sorry photographers)
no longer scarce resources to be guarded at the image size & quality that
sits on websites.  When some of the best images on the Net are taken by
cell phones, and shared to millions, you know your long-guarded image
vaults are losing value for the old purposes.  Their value now is how far
they can be shared. As science fiction writer  Cory Doctorow wrote, "You
can't make money with obscurity."  He was talking about words and stories
but the underlying concept is the same.

Ah well.  Back to writing.  Simply understand if you're using those images
you have to be using some form of image-copy protection. It won't work but
at least you can say you tried. ;-)

Doug

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Betty Mackey <bettymackey@verizon.net>
wrote:

> If you are trying to protect your own images and are good with Photoshop
> or something like it, people say to add a transparent layer to the image.
> When someone tries to copy it, all they get is the transparent layer. Some
> art sites do this for art postings.
>
>
> -- Betty
>
> www.mackeybooks.com
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Pat Hayward <pat@lpbroadband.net>
>
> With the clipping tool, EVERYTHING is copyable online these days. Just not
> hi-res.
> Does Susan have a suggestion as to how to prevent the right click "copy"
> image?
> Pat
>
-- 

Doug Green
Head Weeder, Head Wordsmith
http://www.douggreensgarden.com/about.html <http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com>
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