Image protection for your website
Real images for your site. Scrambled copies for everyone else.*
Pixel Sentinel shows your real photos and artwork on your own website, and a scrambled copy everywhere else: to people who save them, sites that copy them, image search and AI scrapers.
Free for 14 days, no card needed. Sign in with Google, Microsoft and more. No software to install.
Works on WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, Webflow and hand-built sites. Only posting on Instagram or Etsy? Make a watermarked copy for each platform. Or try saving an image from the demo site.
Already being copied? Get a free report on where your site's images have turned up.
* This stops easy copying, not every copy. Someone viewing your site can still screenshot an image and post it elsewhere. See what it can’t do
The problem
Right-click, save, gone.
Anything you put on a web page can be saved with a right-click. Then it turns up on other websites, in image search under someone else’s name, and in the training data of AI models, without your permission and without credit.
The usual fixes
- Watermarks spoil the picture for your real visitors.
- “Disable right-click” scripts stop nobody.
How it works
Three steps. About five minutes.
- 1
Upload
Your image is scrambled into shuffled tiles, keyed by a password you choose, and gets a warning banner with your name and copyright notice. We store only the scrambled copy, never your original file, and unscramble it only to show it on your sites.
- 2
Add two lines to your site
One line in your page header, and an image tag for each picture. We give you both to copy and paste.
<script src="…/embed.js"></script> <img src="…/i/ID.webp" data-pg="ID"> - 3
Your visitors see the real picture
Everywhere else, the scrambled copy is all there is: “Save image as”, copying the image address, hotlinking, image search and crawlers.
Live demo
See it for yourself
This is the real service. Try saving the picture on the left, then open the file you saved.
Now see a whole site
Our demo site is a gallery of AI-made photos, art and graphics built on Pixel Sentinel. Protected and unprotected pictures sit side by side, a patrol searches the web for both, and its dashboard is open to look around. The code behind it is there too, in seven languages.
What you get
Protection your visitors never notice
Real image on your sites only
You choose the domains. Everywhere else gets the scrambled copy.
Your name on every copy
Scrambled copies carry a banner with your organization and copyright notice.
Nothing for AI scrapers
Known crawlers and AI bots get only the scrambled copy. Every image also asks them to stay away, in copyright metadata, the industry “no AI” signals and robots rules.
Traceable screenshots
Large views carry an invisible mark unique to each viewer. Found a copy? Upload it and see which visit it came from.
Full size only when you say so
Your site shows display-sized images. Send full-size originals to a buyer with a link that expires.
See what’s happening
Views, scrambled copies and blocked attempts, by site, country, browser and device, on a map.
A safety check of your site
Finds originals left in your media library or web folder, where anyone could download them, and pages missing the loader.
Copies found for you
Patrols search Google and TinEye for copies of your pictures, check each against your original, and trace a marked copy to the view it was taken from.
Takedown notices, written
One click writes the notice for a copy we find and opens the right form for Facebook, Etsy, Amazon and others.
Honest about the limits
We won’t promise the impossible.
No website can stop someone taking a screenshot of their own screen. Pixel Sentinel stops the easy copying and makes the rest traceable.
Read exactly what it can and can’t do →Every way to protect images from download, compared →
Who it’s for
For anyone whose pictures are their work
Photographers and artists
Show a portfolio without seeing it reposted.
Stock and print sellers
Preview work before it’s bought, without giving it away.
Studios and agencies
Share client work that isn’t public yet.
Shops
Stop seeing your product photos on copycat stores.
Start with one image.
Upload it, paste two lines into your site, then try saving it from another browser. Free for 14 days, no card needed.