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Week of November 7 , 2005

Tutorial: Protect your web photos.

DIAGRAM: This technique is actually fairly simple once you understand the trick behind it. Here is a diagram to help understand what is happening:

Your copyrighted photo is placed as a background image inside of an HTML table cell. The copyright notice (a transparent PNG file in our example) is then placed on top.

When someone viewing your portfolio website tries to drag the image to their personal computer, they get the copyright notice instead.

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