Image Tiles 1515 Responses

Last post: 5 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Jan 12, 09, 9:38 a.m.

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• heavyt

  Hello all - I just added another script to http://supersimple.org

  It is called Image Tiles. It is a js/php script that automagically converts your images into a bunch of little tiles in order to make them harder to hotlink, copy or download. All you need to do is add a class to your img tag for it to work (after you upload the files).

  I am interested in getting some feedback from you guys to let me know if you think it is useful or not.

  Of course, there is virtually no way to protect web images from ever being downloaded or copied, but i think this is a pretty easy way to make it a lot more difficult.

  Thanks

  Example: http://supersimple.org/imagetile…

  Jan 12, 09, 9:38 a.m. – Permalink

• brandelec

  that's pretty cool - thanks!

  

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 9:42 a.m. – Permalink

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 9:44 a.m. – Permalink

• heavyt

  Thanks. It looks like a puzzle up there.

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 10:13 a.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  There's a woman here who says automagically all the time. I want to punch her every time she does.

  • oops. something about js makes me think of automagic.– heavyt

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 10:15 a.m. – Permalink

• TheBlueOne

  Why it's Automagically Delicious!™

  • ...and supersimple™ too!– TheBlueOne

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 11:11 a.m. – Permalink

• heavyt

  I have just added a new feature/option.
  I order to protect the original image, which could be viewed and copied by looking at the html source, i have added the option to watermark your original after creating the tiles.

  You may create your own watermark.png and the script will make the tiles (before watermarking) so most people will see an unaltered image. After the tiles are created, it will watermark your original. So, if they try to steal your image by viewing source, they will get a watermarked image.

  best of both worlds - clean version without watermark to show off your work, and a watermarked version to thwart any thieves.

  still waiting for some feedback.

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 5:44 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  I'll just take a screenshot

  • you're so smart! of course that wont work to hotlink an image.
    – heavyt

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 5:55 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  i've noticed that flickr is putting a giant transparent gif over images to prevent people from grabbing them. it doesn't do it on your own flickr page if you're logged in though. that's kinda funny.

  what about some js that finds all the images on the page and swaps them as backgrounds of divs or something. that might have the same effect, no? it would be putting the processing on the client side. hmm, maybe a jquery plugin or something...

  • FYI, flickr can be blocked with the adblock plus extension > block space.gif– jaylarson

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 6:01 p.m. – Permalink

• heavyt

  no, what make this better than the transparent gif method or bgimage method is that these images cannot be taken from the html source.

  either of the other methods will still reveal the location of the image in the html source, or in the activity monitor(safari)

  this script is one better, since the original is watermarked.

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 6:03 p.m. – Permalink

• D_Dot

  Holy Shit I completely forgot about super simple! Been a while since you posted anything about it here eh? Thanks!

  • ahh, yeah. i have been taking care of other things. Been working on a big update too.– heavyt

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 6:05 p.m. – Permalink

• D_Dot

  So I guess you took care of this problem on your own then.

  http://www.qbn.com/topics/342137…

  I'll take it off my to do list... :)

  • haha! yeah, only took me about 5 years from the looks of it.– heavyt1/2

    you were just waiting for the right technology that's all.. ;)– D_Dot2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 6:10 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Very effective!

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 6:13 p.m. – Permalink

• BannedKappa

  Great work Todd. Nice stuff on your site.

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 6:40 p.m. – Permalink

• sikma

  Interesting. But I can use downthemall! grab all the tiles and put the image back together. It wouldn't take me long since you've numbered them for me and left them in order.

  Could you have a way off scrambling the order? And make them smaller?

  • there are settings to make them much smaller, but nothing to renumber them.– heavyt1/3

    if you do that much work for an image, you deserve to have it.– heavyt2/3

    fair enough– sikma3/3

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 6:54 p.m. – Permalink

• heavyt

  by all means - i am not implying that your images could never be used again. Publishing them on a public website is certainly a bad way to protect any files.

  It is really a way to keep most people from doing it. Most people arent so sophisticated as to find that software, or to view source even.

  I mean, cut me some slack here, i am trying to offer a free, easy and reasonably secure solution.

  • lol - sorry man! it was only a suggestion. what you've done here is great!– sikma

  

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  Dog-earJan 12, 09, 7:01 p.m. – Permalink