Way to protect images online

[Tailwinds]

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.

[Seamus]

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!