Table Background Transparent GIF

[Rudy.Jean]

HI

Table Background & Transparent GIF are the new trend to protect your
pics. Is it efficient or can people still go around and take my pics?

thanks

 

[RobG]

HI

Table Background & Transparent GIF are the new trend to protect your
pics. Is it efficient

Define 'efficient'. *Sufficient*, no.

or can people still go around and take my pics?

Yes. If it can be viewed in a browser, it has already been
downloaded and is already taken.

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Table Background & Transparent GIF are the new trend to protect your
pics.

Ick! Why a table? Just use an image element:

<img src="transImg.png" width="130" height="120"
style="background-image:url(realImg.png);">

But, as you can see, the URL of the real image is still in the code.
It has to be for the browser to be able to load and show it. You
can hide it further away from the actual image element, but it must
be there.

Is it efficient or can people still go around and take my pics?

There is *no* effective way to prevent people from saving images that
they can see.

You can obscure it more or less, to make it harder, but you should
always consider whether the people that are so easily fooled are
really the ones you need to protect yourself against ... and whether
the extra work for you is really worth it.

(The best attempt I have seen so far, is really an embedded windows
media file which shows the image (a one frame movie) as an overlay
.... fooling most screen capture programs, but not all. Still, it's not
absolutely safe, and it makes too many assumptions about the receiver
for internet use)

/L

 

[Kimmo Laine]

HI

Table Background & Transparent GIF are the new trend to protect your
pics. Is it efficient or can people still go around and take my pics?

If you want to protect your pictures - really protect - the only way is not
to show them in the web at all. If this is not an option, then there is no
way in hell you could prevent people from saving it. It's only a matter of
the degree how difficult you can make it, but there's always a way, if you
choose to display them. What do you think would prevent the person from
taking a screenshot, opening it in an image editor, cropping the image and
saving it?

but the so-called "protection" you mentioned might actually stop the dumbest
most idiotic people on the web, which that makes about 95% of all people on
the web. Still there's the 5% smarter than the average bear, who will find a
way. If it helps you sleep in the night and creates the comforting false
sense of security, feel free to use it.