How could you protect your own photography on your own website?

[SelnaS]

From people steeling the picture. Cause you cant protect if they do printscreen. Or is a copyright good enough.

[Xtiansabs]

put a watermark

[JamieW]

You can put a watermark on the picture. For example have a small size without the watermark, and let them enlarge but have a watermark on the larger. Getty photo does this I believer. But truthfully, a creative commons and or copyright statement should be enough, since the pictures are yours. If someone takes them and uses them for commercial/public use then you can take action against them.

[Poolmanjim9972]

Watermarks and copyrights.There is probably a way to disable the print screen via javascript but that is easy to get around.

[SamuelAdams]

Any method designed to stop visitors from downloading images can be circumvented by a person with the right set technical skills.Once you understand and accept the fact that you cannot stop people from copying your images online, you still might want to try and slow them down. This article covers a few different roadblocks you can place between your images and their audience.Webmasters wanting to prevent visitors from downloading their images often employ two different tactics: disabling the ability to right-click, and overlaying the image with a transparency. Both methods attempt to prevent visitors from right-clicking on your images in order to save them.Right-clicking your mouse button (or CTRL-clicking on a Mac) brings up a context menu containing a few options that apply to whatever element you have right-clicked on. One of these options is “save as”, and allows you to save any right-clicked image. There are many different JavaScripts that attempt to disable right clicking. These scripts work to an extent — any visitor savvy enough to disable JavaScript in their web browser can circumvent this method.Webmasters may also overlay their images with a second, transparent graphic in order to stop visitors from downloading the original. The visitor intends to right-click on the image they see, but in reality they are right-clicking on the transparent image placed over it. Some visitors may be confused when they realize they have downloaded an invisible image, but others will persist. The overlay method can be defeated by taking a screenshot and then cutting out the desired image with Paint, PhotoShop, or another photo editing program.Users may also want to include visual elements to discourage visitors from saving their images. Two widespread aesthetic roadblocks are the use of watermarks, and the use of low-quality images.

[PaulR]

As others have pointed out, a watermark with copyright in it covers you from a legal perspective. Anyone who reuses your images is breaking copyright laws. Here's a free program to add watermarks.http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Misc__Graphics_Tools/uMark_Lite.htmlAs Sam Adams points out, anyone who is savvy can defeat all methods. Watermarking/copyrighting simply will make your images less appealing for people to steal, but will never prevent it. It will prevent the less savvy from simply downloading your image and calling you their girlfriend, at least they'll have to work at it.Good luck.

[Pfo4635]

Their are many ways to snatch photos off the internet, no fool-proof protection method exists. Watermarking is your best bet.

[SirGrant]

As a part time photographer, putting together a website of my own right now, I would have to agree that the best method is the watermark and copyright method. As has all ready been stated, if people want the picture, they are going to get it, but if there is a big old watermark in the middle of it they are less likely to make copies of it and show it off to all of their friends and family or mount it on their wall!