Security Settings for Lightroom Slideshows

[ksp]

Hello,

 

I was wondering if anyone out there knows how to change the security settings

in Adobe Lightrooms software to not allow someone to print a photo if I send

them a slideshow of images? I can see in the Properties box that the option to

not allow this is there but cannot figure out how to change it. Also, once it's

changed, does it prevent anyone from doing a print-screen?

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

Ken

[waltflanagan]

Digital Rights Management is a losing battle. Anybody with even basic computer knowledge could use a screen grab utility to save the data and do whatever they want with it.

 

The best thing to do is send them a very low resolution version of the image that would look bad if printed or put a big ugly watermark across the image.

[ksp]

That's kind of what I figured I was going to hear...thanks Walt. Somebody out there has got to have a "million-dollar-solution" to the whole copyright issue for digital photographers!

[waltflanagan]

Ken, I'm sure someone will sell you a solution for a million dollars but that doesn't mean it will work. The Hollywood studios spent millions of dollars designing the original DVD copy protection system. It was cracked in just a few weeks. The new HD-DVD and Blu-Ray copy protection systems were cracked within 6 months. Apple constantly updates iTunes because its DRM is cracked every few months.

[robert_hall2]

It is not too hard to make a watermark, and a script to put it on to a batch of photos (in CS2 and CS3). However, the watermark works well only for images of a certain size. If you change the size, you need a different watermark and script.