 Michael Farruggia |
searching photographer names Is there a way that I can search for a particular photographer by name on this site? I just found out several of my phots that were posted on here were stolen and I have the guys name. I want to see if he is a member on here. Thanks -mike
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Debby A. Tabb |
Mike, Off your subject, Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your gallery. Many beautiful places. Wonderful that you add a discription and setting as well. Thank you. Debby
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Todd Bennett |
Michael, In the top right hand corner there is search box. That should work. It'll bring up the photog, if he/she is a member here and also any discussions they have participated in.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
How can anyone copy a picture from BetterPhoto site (since it is right click/save protect) outside of doing a screen capture which would be very low resolution ? I have read others saying they had photos stolen and showed up on the Flickr site. As much as I don't like to do so, I am starting to get in the habit of adding my copyright info on my images even though I only use small res pics when I display them on the web. Hope you get the person Michael.
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Todd Bennett |
Carlton, Believe it or not, all you have to do is right click on a picture, click save as, and save it to the desktop or where ever. As you said though, it would be of very low quallity; but, high enough to upload to another site and take credit for it as your own.
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- Ken Smith Contact Ken Smith Ken Smith's Gallery |
Todd, I don't think BP will allow you to right mouse click. At least I'm not able to. But it's trivial to use a screen capture program to rubber band the picture and clip it out, then plug it into Photoshop and make even more enhancements, etc. There's nothing BP can do to preclude a screen capture. Granted, it's low resolution, but as Todd says, good enough to post elsewhere. If anyone wants to know what screen capture utility I use, just send me an e-mail.
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Todd Bennett |
Ken, That is too weird. I am able to right click and do just as I stated above. That was why I made the post. Hmmmm?
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Todd, What resolution are the images saving at ?
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Todd Bennett |
Carlton 72 pixels/inch. 197 pixels wide and 140 pixels high. I can do it in both IE and Mozilla Firefox. The interesting thing is, I just did one of your pics to see and it is saving them with the border around it too. And yes, I deleted it and emptied my trash can immediately after I was done testing it. I am not sure what is going on.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Thanks Todd, That's pretty small (which is good) but I will ask the BP staff about why it is happening.
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Ariel Lepor |
There is a javascript thing on the image's pages (not thumbnail pages) which prevents you from right-clicking. Doing a screenshot and crop would give you a picture with resolution of 480 px on the short end. Guess what? You can also check the pages source code to get the url of the image file, which itself isn't protected at all.
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Ariel Lepor |
For example: http://www.betterphoto.com/uploads/processed/0027/0605121404571100_1504.jpg
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Todd Bennett |
Yep. I was right clicking on the thumbnail page. When I went to the actual picture it would not let me do it. That is good to know.
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Todd Bennett |
I didn't mean to mislead you guys. Sorry.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
I just received a reply from Heather that the thumbnails are too small to print and they have a feature BP has recently added for your image protection is the ability to automatically watermark to your photos before uploading to your gallery to prohibit unauthorized copying. I will definitely check this out. I have been adding my own © to my images as well.
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Christopher A. Vedros |
Even the large gallery photos are too small to print as anything useful. There will always be ways to get around any technical means that a site uses to protect images. By keeping the size and resolution small, the swiped images are only useful for displaying on screen, not printing. With images sized to 500 x 750 pixels, you won't get a decent print larger than about 2 x 3 inches. Not much business in selling pictures that small. Chris Vedros
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Michael Farruggia |
thanks everyone for the feedback. I found out that this person who stole my photos is not a member here and did not steal my photos from this site.
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Mary Iacofano |
Can you tell us what site they were taken from? I do have another question to this thread. Would someone be able to take the source code to get the url of the image file and say put it on a video presentation? Mary
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Ariel Lepor |
Mary, the answer is Yes. You can also view the source code, or with special tools, get the url of the image more easily. A few posts up I gave an example of the url of the actual image (one from my gallery) on BetterPhoto. After getting the url, it is easy to open it with an image editor and crop out the frame. After that, it is just procedure to put it into a video. Ariel
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Mary Iacofano |
Thank you Ariel, Great info on this thread. I shoot an event for free and the videographer has taken my pics before to enhance the video w/o any mention of photographer and then sells the video for profit. Thanks,
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Ariel Lepor |
For one, you could take legal action against him (unless you signed some kind of contract). That would stop him. It shouldn't be too hard to put your copyright watermark on the pictures, esp. with BetterPhoto's new upload option. Finally, you could just choose not to put your photos online.
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