Some photographers are concerned about copyright infringement and unauthorized printing. Here are some options to help:
Turning off printing
When you customize a gallery, the printable option determines whether or not a buy photo link appears on each gallery page.
Blocking access to your originals (and some display sizes)
A good print requires high resolution, and you can choose not to display your high resolution original images and SmugMug's largest display sizes.
In Customize Gallery?, you can choose the largest size you'd like available. Standard and Power users can choose to display images only as big as SmugMug's XLarge size. Pro subscribers can choose to display images only as big as SmugMug's medium size. Want to display your photos big and beautiful but still keep them secure? Block originals, and use a watermark.
When your admirers order prints, the high-resolution original is still sent to the printer.
As a logged-in account owner, or guest, you'll always be able to save your original, high-resolution images to your computer. Click the Visitor View button on your homepage to see what your visitors will see.
Tip: Power and Pro users can disable the Internet Explorer print toolbar. How-to.
Right-click protection
Power and Professional subscribers can choose to foil right-clicking on their photos on a gallery-by-gallery basis.
Simply find the protected option in Customize Gallery?.
It still allows the user to right-click, save as... (after they see a copyright notice dialog) but the image that gets saved is blank.
Gotcha: SmugMug's right-click protection does not protect an image in a forum or blog post. To keep your images out of forums and blogs, block external links (see below).
Watermarks
Professional account subscribers can place a custom watermark on any image that's larger than 800 pixels on one side.
Watermarks will not appear on prints ordered through SmugMug.
You must block access to your originals to make watermarking effective, because originals are not watermarked.
Blocking easy sharing
By default, a Share button appears in each gallery unless you suppress it in Customize Gallery?. That button does make it easy to copy the URL to photos so some people feel more secure by leaving it off.
Blocking external links
Don't want someone embedding your photo in a forum post? You can block that in Customize Gallery?, but note that many a person has forgotten they've done so and wondered why their own photos don't appear in the forum posts they create.