Your real image, only on your sites
You list the websites allowed to show your images, for example yourstudio.com or every
subdomain with *.yourstudio.com. Only pages on those sites get the real picture.
On your pages, a small script fetches the image and draws it for your visitor. Each visit gets a freshly shuffled copy that only that page can put back together, so the image address on its own is useless to anyone else.
Everyone else, and anything that isn’t a real visitor on your site, gets the scrambled copy:
- “Save image as”, drag-and-drop and “Copy image”
- another website showing your image (hotlinking)
- opening the image address directly
- download managers and scripts
- image search, crawlers and AI scrapers
For places that don’t allow scripts
Some places only accept a plain image or an image link: marketplaces, store builders, forums, emails. Each image also has a plain version for these. It shows the real picture only when the page it’s on is one of your sites, and the scrambled copy everywhere else.
It’s weaker than the script: a visitor on your own page can save the real image. It still stops hotlinking, image search, scrapers and direct links. What that means in practice →
Scrambling keyed by your password
Every image is cut into small tiles that are moved, rotated, flipped and colour-shifted, in a pattern that comes from a scramble password only you choose. The result looks like noise.
- We never store your original. Only the scrambled version is kept.
- You can always get your originals back: download the full-size original from your dashboard, or unscramble your protected file with your password, even without us, using our free offline tool.
Your name on every copy
Each scrambled copy carries a banner: “⚠ Your Studio image is protected by Pixel Sentinel”, with your copyright notice underneath. Anyone who ends up with a copy knows whose it is. Change your name or notice at any time and every banner is redrawn.
Kept out of search and AI training
- AI crawlers, search bots and scraping tools are recognised and refused, even when they pretend to come from your site.
- Your images are kept out of Google Images and other image search.
- Every image carries your copyright notice in its EXIF and XMP metadata, where Photoshop, Lightroom and image search show it, plus the standard “data mining prohibited” flag.
- Every response carries the industry “no AI” and “no index” signals, and a reservation of text and data mining rights (the W3C TDMRep standard).
Well-behaved crawlers respect these signals; the rest only ever get the scrambled copy.
Invisible watermarks that trace a screenshot
Screenshots can’t be prevented on any website, so we make them traceable. Every large view of your image carries an invisible watermark unique to that viewer.
Found your picture somewhere it shouldn’t be? Upload the copy in your dashboard and see:
- which image it is, and the page it was viewed on,
- the viewer’s network and browser,
- when they first and last viewed it, and how often.
Compare that with your own site’s visitor logs to find the person. Marks survive resizing, re-saving as JPEG and small crops. When tracing doesn’t work →
Full size only when you choose
Your website only ever receives display-sized images, never the full-resolution file. Full size goes only:
- to you, from your dashboard, and
- to anyone you send a download link, for example a client or a buyer. Links expire (you choose, up to 30 days) and every download is invisibly watermarked for that link.
See who is looking at your images
Your dashboard shows every request for your images over the last 7 to 180 days:
- Real views on your sites
- Scrambled copies sent to other sites, opened directly, or fetched by bots
- Blocked attempts: other sites and bots trying to get the real image
- Downloads through your links
Break it down by site, network, browser or bot, operating system, device or image, and see at a glance which sites are copying you and which bots are trying.
Easy to use
- Sign in with your email, Google or Facebook.
- Drag and drop uploads up to 25 MB. Very large images are scaled to 6,000 pixels on the long side.
- Copy-and-paste code for every image: script embed, plain image and image link.
- Search and page through your image library, with thumbnails.
- Works with any website that lets you add a line to the page header: Wix, WordPress, Squarespace, Shopify and hand-built sites.