7 ways to copy protected photos Occasionally sane
Posted on 28 April 2012 | 1:37 pm
We updated a website at work this week, and a request of a collaborator of our client was that their photos be “protected” against theft and illegal copy. To them, this meant deactivating the contextual menu to prevent people from clicking on “Save image as…”
We argued that this would not prevent anybody from saving an image and, more importantly, that it would degrade the user experience, but our protestations fell unto deaf ears.
Here are seven ways to download the images you want, even if right click is disabled.
- Use Opera: Opera doesn’t honour the oncontextmenu directive, so your right clicks will happily give you the menu with the “Save image as…” option
- View source: “Use the source, Luke!” Find the image you want, it has to have a URL, paste it in the address bar, File => Save, bingo!
- Use Firebug: This is exactly like viewing the source, but it’s easier to find the URL of the particular image you’re interested in
- Save entire page: In the File menu of many browsers, there’s a “Save page as…” option, and you can select to save the entire page, not just the HTML. This will download all the media files used on that page, including the “protected” files!
- wget:
wget -r http://website.com. Nuff said. - Drag and drop: Open an image editing program, and just drag the “uncopiable” into the canvas. Optionally remove the watermark.
- Take a screenshot: Just press on PrintScreen, paste the image in any image editing program and get the image.
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Posted on 17 March 2012 | 2:12 pm
If you have been using images for your documents (include letters, MS Word or even MS Power Point presentation) then you might have encountered copying large photographs into your documents. Large photographs take up alot of memory and slowing down your computer. So you need to compress your photographs using Photoshop (or other softwares) which might be very tedious. Here is a simple tip on compressing photographs quickly for use in your documents.
1. First open your photo folder. RIGHT CLICK a photo which you want to compress.
2. Click OPEN WITH.
3. Click MICROSOFT OFFICE PICTURE MANAGER.
4. MICROSOFT OFFICE PICTURE MANAGER launched. Click PICTURE.
5. Click COMPRESS PICTURE...
6. Choose the type of compression you want to use.
7. You can see the compression size here.
8. Click OK if you are satisfied with the size.
9. Then right click on the compressed photo and copy.
10. PASTE it on your document be it a MS Word, MS Power Point or whatever. Goodluck.
