You can load a jpg (or whatever) using Flash, it will then appear as an swf (you embed an swf into your page, it then loads an external jpg). But frankly, it's not worth it. You can't stop people from using Print Screen. If you really want to 'protect' your images, the only thing you can do is whack a big ugly watermark on them.
Nah, that just looks like plain old css. I looked at the YouTube css file, and found their logo and icon png: http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/master-vfl89407.png If it's displayed in a browser, then it can be copied/saved. I didn't realize that YouTube had a separate domain to host their images on (ytimg.com).
By definitions users MUST upload ALL web content to their computers BEFORE the browser can display that content. Once that content is on the user's computer, the owner of that content TOTALLY LOSES CONTROL OF IT. All the owner can do is to make it harder for the user, but the owner can NEVER stop the user from copying or saving that content. THE ONLY GUARANTEED METHOD OF PROTECTING ANY "RIGHTS" THAT YOU HAVE IS TO NEVER EVER PUT THAT CONTENT ON THE INTERNET.
You could make the image a background image for a div. Just set the width and the height and then set background:url(your_image.jpg); They could still get access to the image if they really wanted to however the simple right click and "save image as" is removed. The best way would be to watermark your images.
Yeah, I always find it laughable when one uses right mouse click and it pops up "Image is protected" "copyrighted" and so on. There's so many ways to bypass that. The easiest is to get the image url and load it individually in the browser. Or the save button that pops up in the left corner of the image in IE, regardless. I've seen that too.
There's no foolproof way to disable it. Most sites use a Javascript to disable right-clicking but that can be easily bypassed. However, the only method which I have seen thus far that works really well is to load the image in a Java applet. That should stop someone from stealing the image.
there's another method by place 1X1 transparent pixel gif file overlay your image using CSS to control it. Anyway this can't be protected your image from the expert user.
apparently sounds nice... like hi5,but you can save entire page with photo... so.. junk... The right answer is, YOU CAN'T!