Jacks Tech Corner

Jack,

I own a photography business and just starting using PSE6, and digital photography for my customers. I was curious to know if their is a way to lock a picture from being copied and pasted. I watched your watermark tutorial, but that still does not give me the security I need to know that my pictures are not being printed or copied.

Their has to be a way to lock the pictures from being copied and pasted from one computer/disc to another. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Geaux

Ever since the Internet and Digital pictures this has been some trouble. There are web sites that you can post to that do not allow downloading or even saving the pictures.

As far as locking the picture so that it can not be copied I think that you may be stuck. I will look into it but when you get right down to it, the picture is really just raw data and moving and coping data is what the computer is all about.

In the end you will spend more time securing the picture then what some hacker will spend unlocking the file.

Thanks for writing and the great question.

There is only one way to protect your pictures, don't put them on the internet.

Sorry, but its the truth, just upload smaller lower quality images so that if someone wants to buy them from you they can buy the higher quality larger photo.

Gz

I read that you should put up lesser quality pics on the net and if they want the higher quality pics then you can email it to em.