Yv
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First of all, apologies if this has already been covered, I couldn't see any reference to it, so thought it was worth a mention.
As photographers we all do as much as we can to stop people taking our pictures without consent and one of those ways is disabling the right-click function through our gallery software. I recently caused some confusion for poor MD by posting one of his pictures here using a hotlink. The confusion arose from the fact the right click that normally allows you see the picture properties, save it, copy it, etc, was disabled. Except on my laptop currently running the RC version of soon to be on sale Windows 7, it isn't!! Armed with this information, I check my own galleries, same problem. I checked one of the well known motorsport websites that blocks right clicking on all articles to prevent people copying their articles to other website, forcing you to use a link instead, same thing, I can highlight the text of the article, right click, select copy, and then paste that text anywhere I want.
In the name of research I have checked this is the same in the three different browsers I have available on this machine, Opera, Firefox and IE8 and it is, all allow the right-click function to operate.
So, whilst I know [before anyone tells me] this isn't the only way to protect your images, it is one of the more obvious ways to protect them from the average computer user [as opposed to the more techie user] and most of the popular gallery software applications have a disable option, its seems its not compatible with Windows 7 atm, so if you use fairly standard html galleries, it may be an issue. For several reasons I use a mix, my flash galleries are fine, html galleries are right-clickable even where its technically disabled.
This is really just a heads up, I would like to think that its something software designers are working on and perhaps those that know more about this kind of thing can advise on as I am guessing it isn't just my machine that is being particularly clever. I am assuming its the OS that is making the difference as the browsers are the same as those i am using with XP on my desktop, and all is well on that, no right click available where it isn't meant to be available. Any more info from the better infromed would be welcome
Yv
As photographers we all do as much as we can to stop people taking our pictures without consent and one of those ways is disabling the right-click function through our gallery software. I recently caused some confusion for poor MD by posting one of his pictures here using a hotlink. The confusion arose from the fact the right click that normally allows you see the picture properties, save it, copy it, etc, was disabled. Except on my laptop currently running the RC version of soon to be on sale Windows 7, it isn't!! Armed with this information, I check my own galleries, same problem. I checked one of the well known motorsport websites that blocks right clicking on all articles to prevent people copying their articles to other website, forcing you to use a link instead, same thing, I can highlight the text of the article, right click, select copy, and then paste that text anywhere I want.
In the name of research I have checked this is the same in the three different browsers I have available on this machine, Opera, Firefox and IE8 and it is, all allow the right-click function to operate.
So, whilst I know [before anyone tells me] this isn't the only way to protect your images, it is one of the more obvious ways to protect them from the average computer user [as opposed to the more techie user] and most of the popular gallery software applications have a disable option, its seems its not compatible with Windows 7 atm, so if you use fairly standard html galleries, it may be an issue. For several reasons I use a mix, my flash galleries are fine, html galleries are right-clickable even where its technically disabled.
This is really just a heads up, I would like to think that its something software designers are working on and perhaps those that know more about this kind of thing can advise on as I am guessing it isn't just my machine that is being particularly clever. I am assuming its the OS that is making the difference as the browsers are the same as those i am using with XP on my desktop, and all is well on that, no right click available where it isn't meant to be available. Any more info from the better infromed would be welcome
Yv
if you are ONLY getting 8 times as many clicks as sales, I dont think its a problem 
