Hi Phill
Yes, its a worry about having people use your pics without your permission and with anything on line it is always a risk – however, there are a couple of things you can do to minimise this:
1) Post the images at low resolution – for example I post mine at 96dpi 800 pixels on the longest length and then save them at around 80kb. This does not prevent someone using them on line but the image will be far too small/low quality to be of use to anyone to print/publish
2) Use photoshop or another photo editing program to write your name and web details and a copyright note on the image itself so if anyone does use it and someone else sees it they will know where it came from and in some instances it may give you free publicity!
3) Something I do not do but which is possible is to set your site so that no one can download anything. If someone right clicks they just get a message saying the site is for viewing only – best to google for this software though
4) Add metadata to the image itself again possible in photoshop for example so your name and contact details are saved within the image and no one can claim they do not know where it originates from
At the end of the day you just have to weigh up the pros and cons and I reckon with larger versions of your images available on your site you will keep people coming back to visit!!
Cheers
Andy
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