Photo protection...

[Maffo]

Hiya Crystal, its not a mod, its a piece of software which I ship with my mod. Its only of use to the admin, it wouldnt watermark a photo which a client uploaded.

[juven14]

There are several steps you can take, watermarking is probably ideal when people are ripping off his images and hard work. lHotch explains in the link he provided how to modify the script to enable watermarking images. Here it is again: Watermarking in 3.1.4 and new listings dates

I agree with cwp, disabling the right click is not the way to go. Instead, watermark the images, then use javascript to hide the source. http://www.ioncube.com/html_encoder.php Of course, this might mean you lose customers that don't have javascript enabled, though disabling right click would mean the same thing. The last step would be to do as Maffo suggested, stop the linking of your images. http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html

You could also have your client watermark the images before they are uploaded. That makes the most sense, because php watermarking is less than the quality you can get with a graphics editor.

[Lhotch]

Digital photography is one of my hobbies and even a well designed watermark is easily overcome by someone with a modicom of photoshop skill. As I mentioned above if the user can see it a user can steal it (ie alt+prt screen), trim off the fat in PS and edit out the watermark.

At the end of the day if your going to spend time protecting images, then register them with the copyright office, at least then if they are stolen you will have some serious legal recourse.

[SecondShoe]

Is there any way to enable watermarking in v4?

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by SecondShoe

Is there any way to enable watermarking in v4?

Its not a built in feature. The link in the posts above take you to a thread which makes use of some code I threw together to do watermarking on uploaded images. You would have to manually add it.

[Maffo]

Lhotch - Digital photography is one of my hobbies

I hope this hasnt taken priorty over your knitting Larry, it would be a great shame if you were to lay down those needles!

[SecondShoe]

I tried that code but I can't get it to work. I found class_upload.php and added the code after

// Check if file is uploaded correctly
			if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES[$field]['tmp_name'])) {

I also uploaded watermark.png in /includes/classes/images/ and replaced

$watermark = imagecreatefrompng('watermark.png');

with

$watermark = imagecreatefrompng('includes/classes/images/watermark.png' );

No success.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by SecondShoe

No success.

Does the whole image upload process still work fine? Your image just isnt being watermarked? And you did upload some new images after implementing this code correct?

[SecondShoe]

The image upload process still work fine. I did upload new images to test it.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by SecondShoe

The image upload process still work fine. I did upload new images to test it.

I think it may be a permissions issue with the image file.

I get a 404 page not found error when I try and view your watermark....

http://shumen.biz/68/includes/classe.../watermark.png

If possible chmod the file to 755