Picture Hosting Security

[crusk01]

What is the best software program that would give me the same functionality as
[url]www.wireimage.com[/url] where photographers can upload pictures to my site and then
my site would turn and logg the information and give it a thumbnail and a
watermark version until it is purchased (is this secure enough?)

I was going to do this in coldfusion but Im not sure I am capable of the task.
I hope that someone has some advice for me.

Thanks.

[BKBK]

>... upload pictures to my site and then my site would turn and logg the

>... information and give it a thumbnail and a watermark version ... I was

going

>... to do this in coldfusion

Coldfusion is capable of many things but what you want may be too tall an order
for it. Especially since you want security on top of the image processing.
However,
the situation is not hopeless. There are
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/jai_images.html[/url]

[dj shane]

It's very possible Crusk, use CFXImage to do the watermarking and resizing.
There's many different ways to secure it, including generating it as a UUID and
storing it at an above path. Check out [url]www.fileskank.com[/url]

[crusk01]

would this work with a massive (1MM+) database of pictures? so that they would all appear as thumbnails then once clicked it would be watermarked and secure from saving without paying?

[crusk01]

how much would something like this cost to have built for me? from freelancers? Easy job or hard?

[BKBK]

Some general security advice, beware of using DLLs or any custom tags or Java extensions in which you cannot examine the code.