Here you can find almost all you would ever like to know about iWeb and photos.

Short URL of this page: http://photos.iwebfaq.org

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Hi there,


Actually iWeb&Photos turned out to be a pretty complicated issue. There are a lot of threads and workarounds on the Apple Discussion Forums about that and I'm trying to collect them and put them together... Which is not so easy...

Nevertheless I hope you find what you're looking for.


Regards,

Cédric


Chapter 1: How to protect your photos (Page 1, the one you are currently visting)

Chapter 2: Alternative slideshows (Page 2)

Chapter 3: General and Troubleshoot (Page 3)


Chapter 1:


  1. 1) Does anyone know how to get rid of the "download" link when you look at individual photographs?

  2. 2) If you don't want people to use your photos and don't want additional work I'd say don't disable download, three solutions coming up to my mind:

  3. 3) If you don't want people to use your photos and don't mind about additional work and want to disable the download button I'd say:

  4. 4) What else could I do? Making a movie

  5. 5) How can I resize photos? Have them small? Have them bigger than big and less big than full size?

  6. 6) To protect pictures aside pictures in PhotoPages, covering with a shape

  7. 7) Copyright ©



1) Does anyone know how to get rid of the "download" link when you look at individual photographs?


In the PhotoPage open the Inspector in the teardown menu


-None

-Small

-Medium

-Large

-Original (Full quality)


select "None" and the download button will disappear.


However, removing the DL button with 2.0.2 update exposes something else worse, the images are in full resolution and can be access by simple keystroke


When you follow the following steps


1) Photo Download Size --> Large

2) Publish to a folder and verify photo size is large - 1920x1440.

3) Photo Download Size --> None

4) Publish to a folder and verify photo size is 800x600

5) Quit and relaunch iWeb, Photo Download Size should be None, leave it.

6) Publish to a folder and verify photo size, it is 1920x1440


the None setting doesn't stick after quit and relaunch and so the full size images are included


2) If you don't want people to use your photos and don't want additional work I'd say don't disable download, three solutions coming up to my mind:


1. Batch your pictures so that if someone should ever rightclick the name or
the url of your website will stay in the pictures so that everyone will know that he downloaded the picture from your website. See my way of batching on the right bottom corner of the photos with url here. There are tools for doing that automatically. (I batched my pics with PicMark which is not professional but free and good enough for me. It’s a good piece of software but strange: when you open it nothing popsup, you first have to go to Window and select Watermarks Manager).

That's making pictures "unusable". Really? No. Someone could cut your batch with photoshop unless you display a batch over the whole photo but that ruins your website displaying ruined photos

2. You select smallest size for download (little pictures are quite unusable most of the times...)

3. You do all of them (1+2)


3) If you don't want people to use your photos and don't mind about additional work and want to disable the download button I'd say:


1. Same as 1 mentioned above

2. Resize your pictures (have a look at question number 5)

3. Put them in the PhotoPages

4. Select "none" and you will get no download button

Because you resized pictures first when iWeb includes Full size it will not change anything


4) What else could I do? Make a movie


http://www.heese-cadieux.com/Home.html


Making a movie it's more difficult for others to use them as their own as this pictures are in less resolution than prints and it is very difficult to use video images on a catalog, they just look bad.


iPhoto '08 has an export to quicktime button for slideshows.


The downside: loss of quality displaying on the website and a really huge movie file. To avoid the big file size you should decrease the size of your photos before making the movie.


iPhoto > File > Export... > QuickTime tab ...set width and height, etc.


Then iWeb > Media button > Movies tab ...drag in your movie created by iPhoto.


Then iWeb > Inspector > QuickTime tab ...settings.


Exporting an already built slideshow gives only the small, medium and large options and converts your still images into 30 fps video.


Selecting a group of images from your Library or Albums allows export to QuickTime and you can adjust the dimensions, duration and even add audio. These files using the Photo-JPEG codec and do not convert to "video". Tiny frame rates and tiny file sizes.


Put your video into iWeb, place a shape box layer on top of the video and make that box transparent: In the "Inspector" window, go to "Graphic", "Opacity" and make the square "0%". Make sure the shape is on top of your whole video. That makes it difficult to download your video.


Please note: I took most of the information of point 4 from this thread on the Apple Discussion Forum so if something is not clear please refer and post to this thread.


5) How can I resize photos? Have them small? Have them bigger than big and less big than full size?


1. Drop the pictures you want to upload from iPhoto in a folder

2. Select folder and drop it in Jasper’s Phototools

If you can find another application in which you don't have to resize one by one you can use that too. That's the only one I found freeware and not changing colors being able not to do only one by one.

Change percentage and maximum filesize

3. Click "go" and it will resize all the pictures by adding a prefix

4. Drag and drop the resized images into an iWeb PhotoPage

-Select Original(FullQuality) if you wanted to create pictures bigger than big but less than FullSize (example Change percentage to 80% and maximum filesize to 1000)

-Select None if you created small images and don't want the download button to show up


That's a quick way to do it. However for normal publishing to iWeb you don’t have to resize photos by your own. Resizing is already integrated into iWeb (have a look at Question 1).


  1. 6) To protect pictures aside pictures in PhotoPages, covering with a shape


In the "Inspector" window, go to "Graphic", "Opacity" and make the square "0%". Make sure the shape is on top of your whole photo. That makes it difficult to download your photo. Does that makes it impossible to download the image? No, but it makes it more difficult.


7) Copyright ©


On some keyboards press: Option(or alt)+"G" and you will have this "©"

On other keyboards press: Option(or alt)+"C" and you will have ©



Note 1:


Small still uploads a photo with a size of 800 x 600 pixels because of the slideshow.


Note 2:


Always recall:

-There is no full protection

-There is no way to stop people from downloading your stuff.


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