Protecting an image
I've just had to do an illustration test for a job. I really don't trust the comopany I'm giving the test to not to use the image.

Is there anywhere I can upload the image so they can't save it? I couldn't give a shit about them doing a 'print screen' and saving it, the resoloution won't be good enough for them to use.

I've Googled and not found an answer so I'm not being a lazy shit.

Thanks muchly...
(mousemonkey, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:27, archived)

Flickr might work
there are privacy and copyright options. Apart from that, I know not, sorry.
( Jobe, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:28, archived)

Send them a low-res hard copy of the image with "SAMPLE" printed over it.

( The Gentleman Bastard waxing lyrical. ©, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:29, archived)

Ha!
I'm sending the image to a photgraphy company so I reckon their nimble fingers know their way around taking. sample off of an image, we've all done it.

May be I can make the word 'sample' tartan and really blur it across the image.

I'd really like them to see a hi rez image as there is a lot of detail in it...ho hum.....
(mousemonkey, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:33, archived)

just send them a low-res copy of the image?
it's only the same as the printscreen

you could always put a digital watermark on it if you're paranoid
( spacefish bong!, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:29, archived)

no
and cover the image in a watermark.

and didnt you just delete a post?
( MrA, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:29, archived)

It wasn't him

( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:30, archived)

was it the one armed man?
he's such a cunt
( MrA, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:32, archived)

northernwifeb3ta I think.
Caught a glimpse as I refreshed.
( Harold Bishop's Love Child some sort of terrifying sex magician., Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:33, archived)

I replied to his thread.
Then he deleted it and sent me a gaz.
( JessAction Give me all your expensive brandy and hubcaps., Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:35, archived)

Judicious use of a CDC watermark will prevent that kind of thing.

( Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:29, archived)

make it really shit.
there's a board here at b3ta which will give you some ideas.
( scott,, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:30, archived)

yeah flickr has options so you only download a tiny 1 pixel gif
also, I scanned one of my sisiters degree certificates for her and whatever way I scanned it the words "this is a copy" appeared all over it despite ebing totally invisible on theorignial. if you could figure out how they did that it might be handy
( VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:32, archived)

Best reply ever...
apart from, 'My names Jabob Dwyer...'

Thanks so much, just what I was after...
(mousemonkey, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:35, archived)

the old paper driving licences did that when you photocopied them

( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:38, archived)

It's not something like
this is it?
( Druid, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:42, archived)

I don't think so
it didn't refuse to scan it

something to do with tiny variations in the print matrix, perhaps if you scanned it at exactly the dpi it was printed at and lined it up perfectly it wouldn't show
( VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 23:45, archived)