April 13, 200818 yr Hi all, I am trying to implement a web gallery to my site. It is to display photographs that I have taken. My aim is to create a gallery that shows large versions of the pictures whilst embedding them to the page so people cannot download them. After scanning a few site I like this approach -> Web Gallery I've seen a few sites use this approach but I can't work out how to implement it. What technology does it use, is it Flash or Java?
April 13, 200818 yr Have a look at www.photos.thomashardy.me.uk it is my photography site not I take photos much, I am yet to get my proper camera still using my crappy 2.0 megapixel cameraphone and the crappy digi cam.
April 13, 200818 yr Hi all, I am trying to implement a web gallery to my site. It is to display photographs that I have taken. My aim is to create a gallery that shows large versions of the pictures whilst embedding them to the page so people cannot download them. After scanning a few site I like this approach -> Web Gallery I've seen a few sites use this approach but I can't work out how to implement it. What technology does it use, is it Flash or Java? Hi there. If you are referring to the way the images "pop" out of the page when clicked on, it's done using a small Javascript called Lightbox. HTH Scott.
April 13, 200818 yr Just for information, perhaps not the solution for you - and I haven't gone to the point of developing it myself as I haven't got a gallery need at this point - but 'heard of' a technique it elsewhere to put off people trawling for images... (although there's always ways around it.) Basically the idea is to set up/stretch a transparent 1px gif - sometimes dynamically given a different name each time - over the zone of the image of interest. A person trawling for the images on that site thinks that when they are clicking-right to save the image, they actually doing so. Whereas in fact they are saving just the 1px gif with lots of different names. By the time they bother to gleefully check what is contained in their image target folder, they have a huge quantity of nothing. Of course I don't trawl for copyrighted images. No certainly it wasn't me, but a virtual friend (who's name I now can't remember) in a closed down chat room bar over a couple of beers said it was so. I guess you'd have to have a lot of images to protect if you were to go to that length. Then again people can always locate the images in the Temporary Internet file cache if they were determined enough. Not that I would do that, of course.
April 13, 200818 yr If you wanna steal images, just use the "print screen" button. There are plenty of ways to stop lazy / unintelligent users nicking your pictures, but if they're really determined then they won't be stopped.
April 13, 200818 yr If you wanna steal images, just use the "print screen" button. There are plenty of ways to stop lazy / unintelligent users nicking your pictures, but if they're really determined then they won't be stopped. I am curious Rachel, you mean those that use another's copyrighted image for profit or value, surely?! Or do you actually believe that everyone that saves an image for a personal reason (inspiration, admiration, printing for their office atmosphere etc.) as lazy / unintelligent just because they don't know how to include a link to the specific image?
April 13, 200818 yr Author I take on board that it will be impossible to get a 100% fully secure web gallery, there are ways and means but if I can limit the amount of people likely to do it then that is what I'll do. It's an area that needs work to fully protect the work of photographers online.
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