This thread is getting painful.

I could have sworn this was a forum to help pple..
Here is an idea that MIGHT fool some pple, depending on how much
they want the image.  (Nothing will prevent someone from doing a screen
capture once they have the image on the web page, but that is a lot of
work to go through to steal all your images if you have a lot)  This idea
will only help keep people from EDITING your image.  Nothing at all can
keep them from downloading it and using it on their own page.

The idea came about while reading the idiotic replies to the question that
said to just make the image black so noone could copy it.  They were being
twits, but they didn't realize how possible their idea was (as twits often
don't)  Graphic editing programs will only load the last frame of an
animated gif.  Taking this into account, you can make a "copyright" image
that is the same size as the one you want to add protection to and load
both images into a gif animator. (I suggest Ulead's Gif Animator that you
can find at http://www.ulead.com/) After both images are loaded, set the
copyright as the last image, with a delay timer of as small as possible.
Set the delay on the first image to a long time, let's say 50 minutes. Be
sure to set the loop feature to infinite loops.  Every 50 minutes, your
copyright image will flash on the screen for a half-second and then back
to the other one.  If someone loads the image into a graphic editor, they
will only see your copyright image.  Keep in mind that while animated gifs
are doing their thing in a browser, the "stop" button is usually still lit
up.  This means that the browser is doing something that the user can stop
with that button (In this case, animating a GIF)  This is a tell-tale sign
that you are up to something, so I suggest putting an actual animation
somewhere on the page to counteract the "suspicious" behavior.. IE make it
look natural again.  Of course, none of this would fool someone who really
knows what they are doing, but it should stop a lot of pple (like the pple
who have responded to your question up till now) from editing
your image.  (Remember, nothing can stop them from downloading it and
using it on their own page)

Pat

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