: Doorknob is right; it's impossible to prevent users from downloading the image. Any safeguard you put in place can be bypassed. Blocking Right Click is easily thwarted by disabling JavaScript

@Michele215

Doorknob is right; it's impossible to prevent users from downloading the image. Any safeguard you put in place can be bypassed. Blocking Right Click is easily thwarted by disabling JavaScript (or modifying the script if necessary).

You can, however, employ other methods to protect your assets. Watermarking is one way to guard your copyrighted images. Take a look at any stock photo website to see how they do it:



iStockPhoto (above) for example gives users the ability to zoom in and view the details of an image. Their watermark scales with the zooming. It's unobtrusive enough to allow people to analyze the image, but prominent enough to mitigate thievery.

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