Image Safety

I have had tons of my images stolen and even links changed because of how easy things are with FAA and google.

Contact Google and ask them not to index your galleries/images. Actually the service I use has that as an option.

Unfortunately, the risk is a part of showing your images on the web for as soon as you put images up anywhere they can be stolen. Every time someone goes to a webpage their computer puts all the images in their temp folder for example and most browsers nowadays completely ignore the "no right click" code we do have in place. Besides which, anyone who visits can screenshot the pages.

However, your full images are nowhere on this site, only low resolution copies. Anyone who wishes to steal your images will do so even with watermarks and would not buy them. We have numerous posts about this in the discussions area. Visit there and put 'watermarks' in the discussion search

Use watermarks. If nothing else it provides a deterrent and advertising.

Safety vests also work.

oh my god, the internet is working how it's meant to. Details at 11.

Seriously, if you can't understand this, stay off the internet. That goes for the OP and everyone who has to whine every time a thread like this comes up.

Temp ban me Abbie. That or get rid of idiots.

FAA has no control over Google.

Of course Google crawls and indexes FAA - just like it does the rest of the internet. It's how many many many sales here are made.

Jeffrey, can you opt-out even if you are not the owner of the site? I have my own site, and I can definitely opt out of searches if I want to (I don't), but I don't think you can ask Google to opt you out on secondary sites.

Cynthia - Not sure really about Google but as you I can on my site as well opt out but like you it doesn't make since to opt out because then no one will find oneself when others do a search.

Disabling right clicks deters a few lazy or computer illiterate folks, but that's about it. There are always workarounds. Frankly I don't mind if someone "lifts" a photo of mine to decorate their PC desktop, or add it to their screensaver. I've done that myself now and then. But I watermark for the folks who casually share photos online, or use them to decorate their blogs and websites. The watermark helps make it clear where the image originated.

It doesn´t bother me anymore! On my website, I removed all watermarks, and show my pictures big enough to look as good as possible.