How to protect graphic work?

Say you doing some graphic work for someone and the person would like to see it before they say ok that will work. Well if they wanted to they could steal the pic so is there a way to protect your work from this happing

well if u are afraid he will steal the pic put in LARGE red letters going diagonal over it something like " LOW QUALITY " and dont give them the psd only a gif/jpg or whatever u save it as but make the opacity on the text low enough so he can see the work but high enough so he cant and wont want to copy/steal it

print it out and send it to him

or put in in a flash movie (but they can always use Print Scr)

or put some antistealing script on your page.

psnewb has some solid ideas there, put ya some kinda false watermark on it until you recieve payment. That will work great if they are proofing over the net. Not only that but I'd definatly use the "Low Quality" suggestion. Then it doesn't directly imply you dont trust them
Of course if I could hand deliver it I'd show them on "MY" laptop. Not much way they can steal it then. ;)

without violence that is...I'm kinda partial to that little puter. :D

fax it to them

yea he'll be happy with the quality

Someone once stole an image I had designed for him so I'm very careful with that kind of stuff eversince. Especially when somebody approaches you on a messageboard you should protect the image you send him.

Giving him a low quality image is kinda risky (Is it spelled this way??). They might not except it so you've done a lot of work for nothing. They won't pay you $100 without having seen the final image, at least I wouldn't.

I suggest that you add the text 'stolen image' in a very small, faded, but readable font somewhere over the image, always works and they know what the final image will look like.

And don't send the ANYTHING before you've reseived your money, no matter how long the transferperiod is.

And finally, when you add the stolen image lines, explain them why you do it and that it's nothing personal bla bla bla :D:D

[QUOTE=Good Christian]print it out and send it to him

or put in in a flash movie (but they can always use Print Scr)

or put some antistealing script on your page.[/QUOTE]


I have found a number of programs that suggest they can disable cache, Print Scr, right click etc. The draw back per their FAQs is loss of search engine functionality.

For example

http://www.antssoft.com/htmlprotector/index.htm

or HTML Power (found it on Download.com)

When I run these programs they appear to disable Print Scr for any use on my computer until I reboot.