Password protected facebook wedding pics, how?

<p>Hi from still no Sun York UK :-)<br>

I would like to post pass word protected pictures of wedding I shoot onto face book. But I want them to be pasword protected so only selected people can see them and they cant rip them off.<br>

Id Smug Mug the best fit for this type of service?<br>

Thanks,<br>

David</p>

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<p>1) So, you don't want to post them on Facebook, you want to post a link on Facebook, allowing people to go to where you have the images. If you want people to SEE the images on Facebook itself ... they'll be on Facebook, and you can only control access by posting there for public vs. for friends-only viewing.<br /><br />2) Yes, something like Smugmug is a good choice if you do NOT want them posted on Facebook. You can indeed post a LINK to a Smugmug gallery on Facebook. But if you've set up a password on that Smugmug gallery, you'll have to decide how you want to convey that password to the Facebook visitors that you'll be inviting to go look at the pictures. Obviously, if you post the password in the FB thread, you're sharing it with anyone who sees that FB discussion. You could post, in FB, encouragement to send you a private message on FB to request the Smugmug gallery password.<br /><br />3) There is nothing you can do to stop people from saving the images locally. If they're allowed to see the images on the screen in front of them, the can save the images to their device or computer. You can use features on Smugmug to disable right-clicking, but that's trivial to overcome (for that matter, people can just do a screen capture, and save that). Your only way to prevent people from running off with finished work is to never post anything at a high enough resolution to be useful, or to superimpose a very visible watermark across the image (like, your studio name, etc). Heavy watermarks and tiny, low-resolution images aren't very popular these days which is why...<br /><br />4) It's starting to make more sense to charge for your TIME instead of for the images, later. Make enough money for the shoot itself (and your post-production work) that you just don't care who looks at the results. That way the bride and groom can happily and immediately do what they really want, which is to share those images on social media for all of their friends and family to enjoy with them while things are still fresh.</p>

Have you tried creating a private group and only allowing a few select people to know it exists?

<p>I think there is a way to customise the privacy of certain photos / albums so that only selected friends can see them - using the "audience selector tool" - step by step instructions <a href="https://en-gb.facebook.com/help/215496745135618">here</a></p>

<p>I don't know about weddings, but many professional photographers have packages including the full resolution digital images. It isn't so obvious what the right price should be.</p>

<p>Otherwise, as above, low resolution and/or with a watermark. </p>

<p>The default Facebook download resolution is pretty low. I always upload mine in FB's "high resolution" mode, but then again, I am not trying to sell them.</p>

<p>I believe on FB you can generate a photo album that anyone with the appropriate link can get to, but otherwise won't be visible. It is just as easy to pass a link as a password.</p>