> Jim, > I'm not singling you out here; yours just happened to be about the 10th > email I've seen recently that said the same thing. By the way, anyone that > has a desire to find information on the photographer's site to evaluate > prospective business will probably already have the flash player installed. > Art directors are used to using Flash. > From a photographer's point of view there is a good reason why folks use > flash for websites. Unlike normal browsing, where the photos are downloaded > to the person's computer to display on the client machine, flash only shows > the resolution needed on the individual computer. The website file is never > copied to the client computer. If done correctly, Flash will now allow > right-clicking to save a copy of the photo either. So, the visitor to the > site is much less likely to copy the photo for unauthorized use elsewhere. > I strongly recommend it to any photographer that has a web site. > Dave Buyens err, it's really not hard to grab the downloaded flash file from the temporary internet files folder, and even less difficult to extract the images. I have all my favourite flash files copied to a directory that I review whenever I feel like it. it's no protection at all (and BTW, if you can see it on your computer, you have downloaded it and it resides there somewhere) k
