Protect Your Web Page Graphics
with GIF Construction Set Professional

Safeguard your intellectual property by making your graphics more difficult to copy. Download an evaluation copy if GIF Construction Set Professional today.

The free and open nature of the web can often see your graphics being passed around cyberspace like drugs in a Frontline documentary. Because it's exceedingly easy to copy pictures from a web page, the pictures you create might effectively wind up in the public domain even if they're your intellectual property.

There's no way to prevent the duplication of your web page graphics entirely, but the GIF Construction Set Professional Protection Matrix function will help discourage it. It breaks a single-image GIF file into a matrix of small tiles. If you include these tiles in your page using the HTML code created by the Protection Matrix generator, the tiles will appear to form a seamless graphic. However, when someone uses the Save Image As function of their web browser to copy your graphic, they'll only get one tile, not the whole image.

The above graphic may look like a single image, but it's not. To see how this picture is protected from downloading, right-click on it and select Save Image As from the menu that appears. Save the file and view it with a graphic viewer or just open it in a new window of your web browser. Rather than the entire picture, you'll find that your saved graphic is just a tiny section of the original.

GIF Construction Set Professional costs $20.00 (US) plus $5.00 shipping. In addition to its Protection Matrix generator, it's a sophisticated GIF animator with a rich complement of features.

For more information about GIF Construction Set Professional or to download a fully-functional shareware evaluation copy, visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gifcon.html. You must also download and install the current GIF Construction Set Professional patch to access the Protection Matrix feature.

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