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How we protect your photos
Every public album layers a watermark, protected previews, and download blocking on top of your work. You can also switch on a motion mask that spoils screenshots.
In short
Buyers should never walk away with a usable copy of your photo without paying. In every public album we stack several layers of protection on your previews, and you can turn on one more from your settings:
- A watermark across the preview, on your terms.
- Protected previews that don't hand over a clean file to a casual download.
- Download blocking on right-click and drag.
- An optional motion mask that makes screenshots come out unusable.
The full-resolution, clean original is only ever delivered after a sale.
Your watermark
The watermark is your first line of defense and the one you control. In watermark settings you choose text or a logo, its size, opacity, angle, position, and whether it repeats across the whole image. A watermark that repeats across the frame is much harder to remove than a single mark in one corner.
You get two watermarks: one for the previews everyone browses, and a lighter one applied to files after a sale, so a shared purchase can still be traced back to your work.
Protected previews
The preview a visitor sees in a public album is never your original file. We generate a reduced, watermarked version sized for browsing, and we serve it in a protected form so that saving the file directly doesn't give someone a clean, full-quality image to work with.
This happens automatically on every public album. You don't need to switch anything on.
Download blocking
In public albums we block the common "just grab it" gestures: right-click to save, and dragging the image out of the page. It won't stop a determined thief, but it stops the casual one, and together with the watermark it means anything that does leak is low quality and clearly marked.
Motion mask (optional)
The motion mask is an extra layer you can turn on from your watermark settings. It applies to every one of your albums. It overlays a subtle moving pattern on the enlarged previews. On screen the movement averages out, so a visitor barely notices it - but a screenshot freezes a single frame, and that frame comes out crossed with visible stripes.
Right there in watermark settings you can preview exactly how it looks: the live view shows the subtle shimmer a visitor sees, and switching to "Screenshot" shows the striped result a capture grabs.
Why turn it on: it's the one layer that also degrades screenshots, the most common way people try to grab a preview.
Things to know: on older or slower screens the pattern can shimmer slightly, and it only applies to the enlarged preview, not the small thumbnails. A moving pattern can also be distracting or uncomfortable for some viewers, and may bother people sensitive to flicker. It's off by default, so preview it first and decide whether the extra protection is worth it for your work.
If someone still copies your work
No visible protection is completely unbeatable - anything shown on a screen can, in theory, be captured. What our layers guarantee is that whatever leaks is low quality, watermarked, and clearly yours, which makes it both less useful and easy to claim as your own.
If you find a modified copy of your photo posted somewhere, you can report it to the platform hosting it as a copyright infringement. The watermark and the reduced quality of the copy are strong evidence that the original is yours.
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