Kevin -

Good point - although if someone can use photoshop to remove the watermark, I'm not sure that putting a watermark in the center of the photos gives you much protection.

Also - are you aware that the right-click protection only works within a smugmug page? You still have the share photo option turned on, and if you click on share photo, then click on one of the links from that page, you will be taken to a page (showing your photo) that is outside of the smugmug right click protection - so a right click save can be done there. Of course, turning share photo off doesn't protect you from people who undertand that they can grab the url from the address bar in their browser, but at least you aren't handing them all of the link options.

The good news is that you are not making the originals available, and the quality of prints from the "large" images is going to be pretty poor. For comparison purposes, I just temporarily disabled protection on one of my galleries. I did a right-click save of one of the photos from the "large" image. The size of the saved file was 91 KB, as compared to the size of the original at 2510 KB. That's quite a difference in print quality. Yes, you're right, some people still don't seem to understand that making copies of your photos like this is stealing. But at least they don't have access to the same quality print that you are selling.

--- Denise