SIMPLE STEPS TO STOP PEOPLE FROM STEALING YOUR BLOG IMAGES

Tired of people stealing your blog images? Here is how you can stop it. You can easily disable context menu on your images. Your site visitors will not be able to right-click on your images and hence will not be able to see the copy or save image option.

I must point out that it’s almost impossible to stop your site visitors from stealing your images but taking these measures will surely reduce the chances of getting your image stolen.

Bloggers have made a lot of efforts in reducing the rate at which their images are stolen by disabling right-clicking on their blogs and watermarking their images. Disabling right clicking on your blog can be really annoying to your faithful users who want to you context menu to navigate back to their previous page, refresh a page and options loke that. Watermarking also makes photos ugly to me, especially when you have to put it at that part of the image where it can’t be cropped out.

Let me also inform you if you don’t know this. Watermark on images can still be removed by using a very powerful tool on Adobe Photoshop CS4 called the smudge tool. If you know how to use this very well, you can remove watermark from images.

Instead of disabling right clicking on your entire site, just disable right click on a single image.

To disable context menu on a single image you need to just add a piece of code (a context menu event handler) to your img tag:

oncontextmenu=’alert(“Image context menu is disabled”);return false;’

Here is how to do it. Just go to your post editor and switch to the HTML editor and include the code above to your img tag.

This is how your image tag will look before you add the code to it:

<img src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NR84-bOT2v4/T6CZzUv5dgI/AAAAAAAAAIk/cx50vvcycC8/s800/translate%2520-%2520dv.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ />

After adding the context menu event handler code, it should look like this:

<img src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NR84-bOT2v4/T6CZzUv5dgI/AAAAAAAAAIk/cx50vvcycC8/s800/translate%2520-%2520dv.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ />

Try to copy your image and see how the code works.

This method is just to disable context menu on a single image. If you want to disable context menu on several images, it will be really tedious.

I will be writing a tutorial that will help you disable context menu on all images on your blog soon!

HOPE THIS HELPS YOU!

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