Is it possible for you to right-click protect the photos on profiles?

[zephyrcat]

Like they do on Picturetrail for example?

It's a bit un-nerving that anyone can right-click and save your photos!

I agree. I think someone else mentioned this recently too.

Was me I mentioned it - and got shot down BUT, I think it would help. Obviously you can still print the page etc etc, but it is one more deterrent.

here

I missed that thread Quootie! I still think it would be a good idea regardless of whether there are other ways. I would automatically use right click to save a pic and not think of trying to do it another way - if I couldn't right click I couldn't be bothered to bother if that makes sense?!

Maybe you wouldn't but the people you want to stop copying a picture would. If you don't want people to copy pictures you shouldn't upload them to a public website.

Quootiepie, the "print scrn" button mentioned on the other thread places a copy of the entire screen on your clipboard. Then you can paste this into a paint programme to cut out just the photo...

The other way - print screen, doesn't take as good a copy and it is harder to resize and edit - so of less use to a person copying the image. I think removing the right click is a good idea.

Actually, Hula, you're wrong. I've just done it both ways with the photo on yours and the quality is exactly the same.

That makes me sound like a stalker... obviously you were the closest member profile at the time

Really? I assumed it would be less good quality with resizing, as it saves it as a different format - the latter (print screen) being much worse when blown up biffer generally. I tried the print screen and certainly when I resize large the image becomes far more pixelated (sp?) and nowhere near as lear. Especially compared to the right click version.

I was surprised too actually, that's why I tried it. Both the screen print and the right-clicked copy blew up the same - I had them side bby side in Photoshop. It may well depend on the original quality of the picture and perhaps because the mumsnet ones have to be uder 100k in size, they're poor quality anyway.

Ah, that might be it - I didn't put it into a photo editing software.