My shop sells my photography & I’ve noticed that I can go in to the item for sale & basically save out a very large version of my image. It won’t be the same quality as the original image, as these are Gelato mock-ups but it’s still going to be good enough for some people.
Is this something I should be worried about?
I do appreciate that it’s not possible to lock down a web site completely but disabling certain right-click menus could discourage some people.
Also, there’s the watermark option. The help files mention “AutoDS” but is it possibe to add a watermark to the file, only when it’s being saved, so that my customers don’t have to look at preview images covered in stuff, or does it have to be added to the files when the previews are being created?
Obviously I’m creating my listings in Gelato, so there are two places where this might be acheived.
I was wondering what the best advice might be from ths in the know. Am I worrying about nothing or is this a standard question.
Don’t have full resolution or near full resolution, or full size etc in the product data.
Anything else is risk.
Not sure what this means, If a custom save process is in a third party system consult that third parties support.
Generally a file saved with a watermark has that watermark IN the image it’s not a separate thing.
If it was separate and removable there’d be no point in having a watermark process at all.
And what you even mean by “preview” is vague and can mean MANY different things.
By default in shopify “preview” images such as seen on collection-product-grids are just smaller resolutions of the main image they aren’t “previews” they are just images.
So what’s NOT in the main image isn’t going to be in the smaller ones being served.
To have a different behavior is an advanced theme customization, and or image-editing process.
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No one’s gonna be downloading your bird pictures anyway so it’s a non-issue.
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This is probably the actual solution.
@PaulNewton The images that are customer facing turn out to only be the mock-up images created by Gelato. They could be downloaded but what the hell. They’re pretty low res & only for visual purposes.
Not sure what this means
Well, I thought it was obvious but okay what it means is, if someone wanted to save one of my images (which, as Maximus3 has pointed out, ain’t gonna happen), but if they did, I was wondering if the watermark could be applied at the point of saving, so that the preview images themselves didn’t have a watermark when viewed on my site.
But hey, it’s all water under fridge at this point.