How to Protect pictures on the WWW?

CtAudiGrl

I would love it if someone would assist me on how to protect personal pictures I would like to post on the web. I have the right click protection script but Microsoft still has the pop up tool bar showing up. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!!

Python

This is a very hard thing to protect. Because there are quite a few ways around disabling right click... For example the person could view the source and get the pictures location and access it directly... unless you protected its directory..

But anyway. Im not sure if there are any really effective ways of doing this. You could perhaps watermark your images if they are being ripped and used elsewhere but if not then Im not too sure

Arestia

theres no way to completely protect your images cause someone could always printsreen and copy the image in photothsop or something

but you could make it harder buy disabling right-click, loading images via a php script, and disabling the IE image toolbar.

Disable Image Toolbar

<meta content="no" http-equiv="imagetoolbar">

Nuvo

It's true that you can't completely protect your images because of the print screen thing.
JavaScript is of little help too since the user can turn it off in their browser.
Using PHP, you can make a script which will only allow images to load if they are requested by a specific URL so you could link to http://www.you.com/image.png and it'd work for you.com, but not for iamstealingthis.net.
There's a few sites with tutorials on how to do this, and it should help to stop direct linking (people using your image on your hosting account, which saps your bandwidth and puts more strain on your server).
One example can be found on ALA (alistapart.com), here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hotlinking/