I've read through quite a few posts from people who have expressed apprehension over their pictures being copied and saved.
I've also been on sites where people have collected pictures from someone and have used them to represent themselves. At the one end of the spectrum, its just wrong, and and the rest of the spectrum includes identity theft and even cons which extort money from the unsuspecting (I wont define the ultimately bad end of of the spectrum because I suppose its ever moving as the minds of the twisted allow their imagination to run). Anyway, I can understand the concern.
Still, it is unfair to those models who want their pictures to be viewed without worrying about people stealing them for those purposes.
My suggestion is this: Watermark your images.
This is relatively easy to do in almost any picture editing tool. Basically you overlay your image with a transparent layer and choose a color for your watermark, usually white (depending on the color of the image where you want to place the watermark), and then fade it to between 10%-20%.
Remember to include the © character (alt 0169) and a date if you want to copyright it at the same time.
The resulting image looks like this...




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