Vista Snipper, Screen Grabs, Temporary Files

Guys, got this by PM

PM wrote:

Hi Andy,
Don't mean to bother you but you have been so helpful in the past. With the new snipper tool in vista how can we protect our images. anyway other than watermark. I send this privatly cause I just checked a couple of mine and one from your moonriver landscapes (that I will delete) and they saved and printed very nicely. Just being causious and trying to be helpful

Everyone should understand the following:

1) Any image you display to your visitors is *in* their computer. It's in their temporary internet files folder.

2) Right-click protection is a mild-deterrent. Anyone can simply disable javascript and block that.

3) Screen grabbing of images is quite easy. There are any number of apps for PCs and Macs that just let people make a jpg grab of what's on their monitor.

So what's a pro to do? Use all the methods available. Right click protection, watermarking, block external links, and restrict sizes if you like.

All of these are options for SmugMug Pros. Details:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/image-protection
http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-watermark-protection
http://www.smugmug.com/help/picture-storage

For me, I right click protect some stuff, others I don't. I watermark some, others I don't.

I don't watermark these
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/634937_G88Gj#156527313

I do watermark these
http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/2843486_cJ9sk#152357886

mostly to show folks the different ways that it can be done