Way to protect images online

Tailwinds — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:27:35 GMT

Hi all,

I'm planning on selling some photography online with square. Is there any way to protect the images of my work to prevent people simply copying the image themselves?

I have all my pics as JPEGS and I'd rather not have to go back and re-edit them all with watermarks. I just wanted to check if square had a way of preventing this from occurring?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Way to protect images online

Seamus — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:07:14 GMT

Hey @Tailwinds,

Unfortunately not! The reality of hosting images is that they are very much reproducible - if not through right-clicking and saving, then via the screenshot function each computer/mobile device has to capture whatever is onscreen. The ways I'd suggest protecting your work are:

1) Watermarks - it might be a pain to do each one, but it's one very common to help protect your copyright

2) Use image sizes/quality that look good on a computer, but are low quality enough that they would not scale up and look any good when reproduced at a larger size

Check out this website and also this one for a few more tips!

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