Some photographers are concerned about copyright infringement and unauthorized printing. Here are some options to help:
Turning off printing
When you look at the gallery settings, the printable option determines whether or not a buy photo link appears on each gallery page.
Prevent at-cost sales
If you have a professional account, you can sell prints to make a profit. However, you need to be careful when you set custom prices so that you don't inadvertently sell anything at-cost. Be sure every item on your pricing page (in each tab) has a price. Put a 0 (zero) in the Price column if you don't want the item sold, but don't leave anything blank!
The best way to double-check is to make sure there are no $0.00s in the Profit column on the page. More on setting prices.
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. When your admirers order prints through SmugMug, the high-resolution original is still sent to the printer.
In your gallery settings?, 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. Professional 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.
As a logged-in account owner, or assistant, 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.
Watermarks
Professional account subscribers can place a custom watermark on the display copies of 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 (see above) to make watermarking effective, because originals are not watermarked.
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 your gallery settings?.
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).
Gotcha: Right-click protection is a deterrent for image theft but it should not be considered fool-proof. To truly protect your images, lock galleries with a password or apply a watermark and disable original-sized image viewing.
Blocking easy sharing
By default, a Share button appears in each gallery unless you suppress it in your gallery settings?. 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 your gallery settings?, 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.