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I saw a comment on this earlier and I agree, the thumbs in the old program kept them constrained to squares, showing a partial image.  I like that much better than how the thumbs appear in Shozam.  In Shozam, they appear as complete images causing visual distress when you have a combination of vertical and horizontal orientations.  If you can, please correct this for the final software.  In addition, I activated right click disable, and it only works when you view images in slideshow mode.  It does not do us professional any good to allow a client to simply right click and copy the image.  Please make sure that right click disable is active in any image window, please, please, please.  Other than that, the new program interface looks much more professional than the old web gallery wizard pro.  Thanks.

-Michael 

www.michaelhacker.com

Replying to your problem of "right click". This is something I'm also concerned about and as a "stock" photographer I post a lot of my photos on a stock photography site. It seems the disabling right click really doesn't protect photos, since just dragging them to a new browser window bypasses the right click protection. What we do on the stock photo site is to submit low res images. It's not really a solution but is some sort of work around. We resize all our image to 500 pixels on the longest side, save them at a quality level of 7 (70% of original quality) and a 72x72 dpi setting. I have saved images at a 50% level and they still look alright on the web. This definitely seems to help since at that resolution the images aren't really worth stealing other than viewing on a computer monitor. Printing them at that resolution and size really doesn't create very good images. Hope this helps. I have done this with some of the photos on my website (shozam gallery) and shozam seems to handle these low res images pretty good. They look good when viewing but most wouldn't print well at all. With all the screen capture utilities etc. protecting images is almost impossible. By the way, great looking website you have

Tom 

Michael Hacker:

I saw a comment on this earlier and I agree, the thumbs in the old program kept them constrained to squares, showing a partial image.  I like that much better than how the thumbs appear in Shozam.  In Shozam, they appear as complete images causing visual distress when you have a combination of vertical and horizontal orientations.  If you can, please correct this for the final software.  In addition, I activated right click disable, and it only works when you view images in slideshow mode.  It does not do us professional any good to allow a client to simply right click and copy the image.  Please make sure that right click disable is active in any image window, please, please, please.  Other than that, the new program interface looks much more professional than the old web gallery wizard pro. 

Michael, you can control how thumbnails are displayed. To get them to look uniform as in WGW, go to Step 2 --> Other Tab and select Crop left/top in the "Thumbnail cropping".

We are aware of the issue with R-click not being applied to pages/images consistently; it will be fixed shortly.

Tom Purse:

What we do on the stock photo site is to submit low res images. It's not really a solution but is some sort of work around.

Tom, you are absolutely right; Web images are typically to low resolution for any printing purposes. More so, the way stock agencies protect images is by watermarking. All other methods are not foolproof. For more, please refer to the help file link in Step 5 --> Protect Tab:

http://www.help.shozam.com/5Gallery-Protect-RightClick.aspx

Again Razvan; thanks for your replys and explanations.

-Michael