Re: [Gimp-user] Photo protection - transparent foreground

[Tom Williams <tomdkat comcast net>]

On 12/17/2012 12:48 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:34 AM, d b <dd_besgrove hotmail com> wrote:
> > I have heard you can protect your photographs on the web by applying a
> > transparent overlay to them. When someone then right clicks and saves the
> > image, all they get is the transparent foreground and not the photo
> > underneath.
> FYI, anyone with the knowledge can defeat this "protection" quite easily.
>
> I'm not saying it won't help at all, but robots, browser extensions,
> and code monkeys will not be fooled by this approach ;)

Yep, you write-eth the truth. :)

Peace...

Tom