I have a website where lots of people copy images off it, which is fine. What I do want to do, however, is help them embed it on the target website they are going to.
Ideally this would take the form where when a user right clicks the image a context menu will appear giving them easy options to embed or share the image.
What is the best way to do this?
P.s. I don't care about them hotlinking, or saving the images at all, all I want to do is provide the user with an easier way to share the images!
No. You can prevent the common user from bothering, but the fact is the URL is sent to the browser to download. So at the very least I could view the source and figure it out.
If you really want to try to annoy the user, though, you can attach an oncontextmenu event which will capture the right-click in some browsers.
edit:
In response to your comment..
Since you're using jQuery, you can use this plugin to detect right clicks. It has been tested on most browsers.
You can then use something like SimpleModal to display the modal box you want to show the user..
$('img').rightClick(function (e) {
$.modal(...);
});