| Online theft of photos can happen with anybody | | | | upload a photo from the computer or point the |
| when some of their photos from the flicker | | | | site to a web page that already hosts the photo. |
| pages or portfolio websites had been borrowed | | | | TinEye then returns a list of sites using the same |
| from a site without their permission. But there are | | | | image. TinEye actually identifies photos which are |
| some ways which can help you to avoid the | | | | very similar to the source image, but not exactly |
| possibility for theft. | | | | the same. If you get no results while searching, |
| Your Photos Are Susceptible | | | | that does not mean that your photo isn’t |
| No matter what you do and how much you put | | | | being there as TinEye’s database of photos |
| emphasis on, there is no way to completely | | | | represents only a portion of what is available on |
| protect a photo from being used without your | | | | the entire Internet. |
| permission so whenever you post the photo on | | | | How to look for the photos |
| the internet, there is always a possibility for theft. | | | | You might even find any other sites which are |
| Even if your web page uses a special script to | | | | similar to TinEye. But there is another approach |
| disable the right-click "Save picture as" command, | | | | which is also very helpful. Google can help you to |
| a determined photo borrower can simply take a | | | | search your image with the related keywords so |
| screen shot of the web browser. We just have | | | | that one can see whether there is a possibility for |
| only one way to protect our photo, it’s just | | | | theft or not. While using this method some |
| that never share them online. | | | | problems are often noticed as we cannot start |
| How to do a Reverse images search | | | | with a specific photo like we are able to do with |
| If you have posted some photos on a photo | | | | TinEye. |
| sharing site and you are peculiar to see whether | | | | Thus it seems that we have just few methods |
| someone has escaped with them. The simple way | | | | available to see whether the photos are being |
| to find out is to carry out a reverse image | | | | used out there in cyberspace or not. But all of |
| search, here a smart search engine looks for a | | | | them are not very concrete and certain, so |
| photo by detecting identical content within the | | | | it’s very difficult to be totally dependent on |
| image itself, rather than keying on file names or | | | | them; therefore the only way out, is not to post |
| metadata, which are easily changed. A website | | | | anything online which you are not willing to give |
| has been found where we can actually perform | | | | away. |
| reverse images searches i.e. TinEye, here one can | | | | |