I wanted to find out if this guy was using a fake photo to endeavour and friend me on facebook so I took 1 of his images. It only so happens he doesn't have a shirt on. I practice the reverse image search and up comes the word "nipple" and definitions and other ways I can photos with a nipple!!! seriously! Any suggestions
Adam
Thanks so much for the tutorial!
EarthAngelle
How near is this the same process searching for private photos that landed in the wrong hands
Ajit kumar sah
i effort to look some special this version .
Riya
I think I got all the information I was looking for. Thanks for this wonderful piece of commodity.
Bister
Hi Kevin and Amanda,
I accept kind of a special situation lol. I submitted a few documents to an organization for a programme I was in. They are at present maxim that I never submitted one of the documents but I'thousand positive I did. How exercise I prove that I did? I still have my internet history and see the date I submitted everything only want to accept proof that the document was submitted to them through their website.
I truly promise yous can help me as this has caused me a major result in retrieving something from them. ?
Connie
Ugh! I am just sick. I just took my virtually popular post and found that someone stole the picture show and photoshopped one of the colors in the picture and called it there own! Information technology was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped film. I lost all of that traffic. Thank y'all so much for posting this, I'll exist closer tabs on my intellectual property!
ioan
I'yard merely curious if this flim-flam works for Instagram.
Nina
Very helpful. Thanks! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Give thanks you! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Thank you!!! :)
Lorrie Walker
Brilliant! Thanks for this handy information.
Lilly Oliver
I tried this for. Pictures off of my twitter but google did non propose taht the pictures were being used on my twitter. Why?
Ramesh
Beloved Kevin, This is the mail I waited for long time. I had some pics which were not uploaded to net. And some of that pics were accessed past another else without my permission. Now I need to bank check whether that pics are uploaded to internet. How tin I do it. All I take is my pics alone and it does not accept any image url.
N. Lynn Wilson
Someone has uploaded my picture from a phone or computer and put nasty comments under my name.
Mich
Is information technology working on facebook pictures? thanks :)
Samantha
Howdy Amanda, I'm only curious if this play a trick on works for Instagram. I accept recently opened a folio to share my photography and hopefully make a name for myself a flake. Simply I just found out that people can "steal" your photos. I'g so disappointed. I would similar to know if anyone has done this and so far. I am going to shut my business relationship. But, exercise you know how to find out if someone has done this already? Thank you tons! Sincerely, Samantha
John Polk
Mayhap this is featherbrained only is that a special font at the very top that looks like castor on canvas? That looks so cool and grabs attention. Is that a castor or font or what? Loved your commodity.
Bryan
Interesting and and so piece of cake to check, I had been told a while ago it could exist done and so thanks for the piece of cake lesson, Right at present I'chiliad off to write a letter to the guardian i found 11 of their spider web pages using one of mine images later i said they couldn't, this'll be fun :-)
Aires
Thanks for sharing this ane. It helps me alot to trace the site that has the aforementioned kind of pictures in my own site.
Apollo
I retrieve it's non working on Facebook ..
hoesim
Good to know : ) However, if someone re-create your image url and edited it in Pixlr.com. Relieve information technology equally their own copy. It is rather hard to trace. I found my epitome was re-create and reused when i lookup in google paradigm under the aforementioned Keyword.
Susanna
Hullo! Thank you for the useful tutorial, but I was wondering if it would piece of work on Facebook pictures. Considering I sent my picture taken from facebook to my ex-friend on kik a while ago before we argued, and I call back she reposted it in some website, but I'm non sure. I'm worried that she might post it on porn websites etc. I tried to practice this to find my pictures but information technology didn't work. And then my question is : Does that trick works on Facebook picture ? Or if you accept any other useful tricks, please let me know. I really Really need your help. Cheers!
Faisal
i want identify the picture of Faisal
shad219
Thanks for the tip! Ilike the huse in the movie too!
Sammi @Sammi Sunshine
Hi Amanda, I have tried this diverse ways, and information technology won't work for me! At all!
Sammi at Sammi Sunshine- A Food Web log
Jen
Much easier -quicker way to search is: in Chrome, right click on any epitome and choose an selection 'Search google for this image' from the drop downwardly carte. Takes a second :) No need for URL.
danielle
pretty awesome-thank u!
Lynne Mikolajczak
I have had a person emailing me since Nov. 19th, 2013. Saying some terrible things about my husband and I. She has sent a photograph. The first one was totally different than the last. The last one she claimed is really her, how tin I observe out who this person is by the photo?
Sonja Bailey
I have a moving-picture show that I am wanting to find out where it came from and who it is I was not able to follow your steps on here please help me
I traced one motion-picture show to a scam simply this one I really think I know this person and need to allow them know if their pic is being used… it is a dating fraud and scamming money
Carrie
Is there any way to do this on a smartphone? And where on the internet are we. supposed to upload the pictures if you're trying to detect where a pic came from either on your smartphone or the computer.. also is the image url and image location different? Cheers.
Jessica
Would this work for Facebook photos as well or but pictures on blogs? I judge if you were able to do it on Facebook, it would definitely accept to exist done on a calculator not a cell phone. I see thedrag and drop method on Catfish all the time but it's never worked for me!
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Siobhan
Thanks for this, I've shared it with a friend who runs a lifestyle weblog and finds her images popping upward *everywhere*. No one uses mine… they are too, ahem, rustic and naive in style :-)
@PamelaMKramer - A Renaissance Woman
In Chrome information technology's a correct click and there is already an option to search. I blog virtually Crossfit just I don't consider myself a Crossfit blogger. It's 1 of my highest traffic posts so I took the epitome from a Paleo before and after challenge that I did and sure enough! It'due south on about iii other sites. I just need to contact i of them to give me proper credit. wow!
Jessica
Wow–although I appreciate this tutorial, I'yard totally creeped out past the number of people stealing my photos (photos that include my immature son). I'm now wondering if there is some code I can identify on my web log to assistance forbid it. :(
Carol
And so what do y'all do if you find 1 that doesn't link back to yous? I have found one of my pictures, and it doesn't link back to my blog. Its funny that the mail was dated April 2008, I didn't do my post until March 2012.. guess she didn't like her own photo and replaced it with mine! I also have a "content and photos on this site are the sole holding of….." on the side bar.
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divita
Beloved amanda, I have a few pictures of a daughter saved in my reckoner. Obviously downloaded from Facebook.I haven't used the picture anywhere. Just if a upload that movie on my blog. And if I follow the instructions given by you will I get to know where is it on Facebook. ! I desperately want to know who that flick belongs to.delight help.
Elissa Field
Thanks for this. I had stored link to your post on my Pinterest… and had information technology to refer back to when a question about a pic came up this calendar week. Information technology's unproblematic, but interesting how much information tin be gathered.
Surabhi
I tried this but information technology is non working for me.
Rebecca
You have no thought how grateful I am that yous took the time to post this and share. I found someone who was using i of my art pieces on his weblog without my permission and without credit. This is a spectacular way to continue tabs on my work! Cheers so much!
-Rebecca
Bryan
This is a great resource. I belong to a portfolio site where lots of photographers and artists mutter of their stuff being posted elsewhere. Almost of it is harmless, simply occasionally somebody finds their art in a Samsung ad or some such. A mailing list I subscribe to shared a resources similar to this but requested that list subscribers keep it to themselves for the time existence, which was bugging me. Now I'yard off the claw. :-D
Robert Connor
What a great tip and very overnice site we love i!
Google
Really another keen way is to direct upload that images to google images search so await for similar images which are to your. Google images search is pretty powerful and will detect all those images which look similar without warring most the naming and Y'all will get all the list of images and places where they are existence hosted.
Matt
I always used tineye in the by simply this seems to piece of work better…cheers for this!
shananne
Hi, just wondering if i tin besides use facebook's photo url? thanks
Carth Glouie Pandan
Dearest Amanda, I met someone from facebook and his name in that location was Ronnie Powell. He had many pics in FB same all faces. Nosotros've been chatmates for how many months. I think iv months. And everytime I ask him to let me see him on cam, he refuses me. Ane fourth dimension, they went to Paris together with his dad. that was he said to me, and I dont know if he was true or was merely lying. Then by next twenty-four hours, I receive a message from his IM that he encounter accident goin dorsum from Paris to UK. And so, the ane who messaged me was his cousin named Andrew, and when he let me saw him on cam, I was taken aback becuz he looked like a Pakistani and not similarly similar with the guy on the pic. I know they are not bro but even cousins take all the same similar faces. I blocked him and unblocked him over again. After few weeks he came back and said that why he blocked me and reply on his messages. I told him that he was non the guy on the pic and he insisted that it was him, but i still accept a doubtfulness. So, how would I know who is the guy on the pic? volition i able to know him – the existent name of the guy on the motion-picture show Even IF Information technology WAS TAKEN FROM FB using ur trick and will i able to know where that stupid wannabe stole that picture show that he used to pretend? Delight assistance me…
Robert Connor
Some groovy info – we look frontwards to reading more! Have a great day on purpose.
Marinos
Just go to http://images.google.com and elevate-drop whatever photo there. either from your computer or from another website. (open your website on one tab and google images on another tab. elevate the photograph from your website to the google images tab on top of your browser. it will then go to google images. drop the photo in the search box) Enjoy!
Nazihah Ismail
Great post! Never knew I tin rail them. Thanks!! :D
Krystina Rotolo
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Taylor
Thank you then much for this! It volition exist very handy :)
Rosey
What a great tip, I'chiliad going to go try it. Visiting today from Permit'south Get Social Sunday.
Brenda @ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com
WOW! Cheers, Amanda!! I cannot believe how simple this is! Thank you lot for the very helpful and piece of cake-to-understand tutorial! Much appreciated ;) Promise you savor a fabled weekend! :)
zee
Thanks for the great tip. I just saw information technology and found another way to practice it. I have not read the 100+ comments, and so I don't know if someone has already posted it. Anyhow, hither'south how…
Go to google.com –> On the header (of You+, Search, Images… ) click on "Images" –> At the stop of the search field, there is a camera icon, click on information technology. (when you hover over it, it will say "search past epitome") –> You can either "Paste image URL" or click on "Upload an image". Click on upload an epitome if you lot have no URL, or if you desire a quick way of searching images you have on your PC. –> You lot tin can now scan and select your paradigm, or simply elevate an image file from your explorer into the search field… –>
And there you have it, your image searched… :)
Fauzi
nami
You got me so excited, I put it on my list of "to do" for this Saturday!!:) cheers for sharing!!!
Addicted to Recipes
Thanks for sharing this post, I just did a random check of some photos and found a website that has copied every single i of my recipes and photos…ugh!
Kim P
Howdy Amanda. I have IE and tried searching a few of my blog tutorial pictures using your instructions to a higher place. I tin not get any results from any of my attempts. Information technology does not even find where I posted my own pictures to my ain blog, FB, Twitter, or Pintrest posts. I'one thousand not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Jenny
i was agape to read this and so notice out people were stealing my pictures but i didn't find annihilation so i experience better now :P
Cher'ley
All I go is the image with no information. I saw a photo I wanted to employ in my ebook. It was sent as a Valentine salutation and it is so cute (Two horses hugging), just I don't know how to find out who owns it so I can go permission to utilise it. Thanks.
Matt
Unfortunately this won't work in 99% of cases of image theft. This volition but piece of work if the person has shared your image to their blog or website. If they right clicked and saved the image like 99% of people do, so upload the paradigm this doesn't work. So information technology's basically useless.
Caitlin
Julia, I would feel more comfortable discussing farther with you but over some private measure such equally email. I'm non even sure I understand this site here. To my noesis neither Kevin or Amanda ever responded to me.
Thanks, Caitlin
Tricia
Ugh! I am just sick. I only took my most popular mail and establish that someone stole the picture and photoshopped one of the colors in the picture and called it at that place own! It was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped picture. I lost all of that traffic. Cheers and so much for posting this, I'll be closer tabs on my intellectual property!
atlanta school of performing arts
Hi in that location, i just wanted to drop yous a line to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this detail post of yours, I have subscribed to your RSS feeds and have skimmed a few of your posts before just this i really stood out for me. I know that I am but a stranger to you but I figured you lot might appreciate the appreciation Take care and go on blogging.
Salammbö
Dear Amanda, thank you very much for this very useful tip. Now I constitute out that a picture of mine has been used to illustrate the weblog of an escort-daughter. ;) THANKS !
Ed
I tried to use this for my pics on flickr but it doesn't seem to be working. Is there a way to do this with photos on flickr?
Salammbö
Hullo Ed, I just spent xx minutes checking my own Flickr pictures so I can clinch you it works. :) Correct-click on the 'preview' on your pictures on the gallery, non on the picture show page. Have fun :)
Jessica
I've always used tineye.com for this, merely it'southward nice to know there is another choice that might catch things the other missed. I've always watermarked my photos, merely it'due south easy to crop those out anymore.
Jennifer
How would you lot do this if you have right click disabled on your blog. Is in that location another manner to get the file location or URL?
Caitlin
PS. The poser/thief has taken this adult female'southward photograph and created a simulated FB folio besides. I turned it in as a fake but it's still up.
I have a MAC if that helps you to answer. And I'm non very computer savvy. Thank y'all so much. I can't believe I cruel for such a savage and deceitful ploy. Embarrassed is all I can say.
Caitlin
julia
Hello Caitlin, Just read your comments & my middle sank… mainly because i am trying to get google reverse paradigm to piece of work for me on my mac & ipad. Tineye works for me but i'chiliad needing more results! I am trying to learn if I take been catfished once over again!! I have met way too many fakes as y'all depict. Can you share the fake FB profile name?
thank you, julia
Caitlin
Amanda and Kevin, Can y'all assistance? Photos were sent to me (nosotros met on an online dating site) and turns out the person on the site is pretending to exist this woman. It's actually a man posing as her. He has sent some pics that I highly doubt she would want floating around (not sure how she feels about not-heterosexuality only it's a lesbian dating site). The poser is sucking a lot of women in for certain.
Is there a way to take the photos and try and learn who she is then that she can be told what the heck is happening to her photos? I just have photos sent to me via email. If I were in her position, I would want to know.
I tried on google reverse photo search with no luck and tineye with no luck. Thank you for your help. Caitlin
Jouhaina
I'm number 112 in your comments, and information technology'due south simply Vivid ! Thanks
ada
Wow! Peachy tutorial, thank you!!!
malaysia
how do you do this on windows 8 for facebook ?
Michelle Male monarch
Very absurd! I merely found a bookmark I had made in May that people accept pinned on Pinterest. I'g glad I had something people thought was fun and/or useful :)
Alana (@RamblinGarden)
I just found this through Pinterest – THANK YOU! I had the feel of several of my photos (pinned from my blog) ending upward on Pinterest weight lost "spam" sites – and at least ane(which was not related at all to porn) on a board I would characterize equally soft porn with a weight loss message. Disgusting! Thank you a third fourth dimension!
Ale
This is awesome, and then useful! Give thanks YOU!
j
my question is what do you lot do when someone is stealing your photos/posts? Especially the foreign ones– I don't really know how to end them.
Abby
Ack. I can't BELIEVE how many people take stolen my photos. I see higher up that someone has given an even easier way to track down thieves. Anyone know of a plan that alerts you if an image is republished?
Suzan
I tried this with a photo I know for a fact was taken and put as someone'due south Facebook profile photo. Information technology only showed the link to my blog, not to the Facebook page.
Valerie
Smashing little trick! I kind if enjoy seeing my photos on tumblr sites. :)
Kim - Liv Life
Excellent info!! The first one I put in brought upwards my photo and my recipe on someone else'southward site with a flake "pin it" push over the elevation of MY photo on THEIR site. Ugh!!!
Enid
Wow, thank yous for sharing! I tried this and found someone using my pictures to advertise for their business! Yikes!
Naomi
You could also drag the paradigm from your web log , pc, mac drag and drop the paradigm in Google Images search and it will practice the very same thing. Yous'll get the aforementioned results. :-)
Sam Rk
thank you lot so much for this! very helpful !
Dana @dbuenovida
Give thanks you for such a helpful mail service Amanda!!
aida mollenkamp
Such a central tip, Amanda. Thank you for sharing!
Jenn @therebelchick
I had no idea how to do this, cheers so much! I know someone has taken photos from my site only at present I actually see what they are doing with them!
theurbanbaker
This could get my new obsession. I am non sure if I should exist thanking yous or cursing you! :)
Jessica Kent
Every fourth dimension I encounter something that I know is from your site (which I seem to have memorized because I've been a regular reader for so long) or other blogs I frequent on Pinterest or anywhere else, I brand sure to "comment" who should get the credit. : )
Lately I've been seeing your t-shirt scarf pop up a lot.
Brandon
You can go to Google Images at http://images.google.com and click the little camera on the right side of the search box. And then you can paste your URL or even upload your own image there.
Heather D.
Thanks Amanda for posting this tutorial! Later on following it I institute 2 of my images posted on two different sites. :( One cropped it and posted it as a free wallpaper download. I can't find an owner to the website, then I accept no one to email :( I tried posting in the comments section merely it's still "awaiting moderation" GRRR!!! The other 1 I establish an email for and sent them a message to remove my image. We'll run into how that goes…
Deanna
Super helpful tutorial! I just found one if your pics on pinterest besides, and came over to send information technology to you, but I don't see whatever contact info for you – assistance! Exercise I just need meliorate spectacles?? :)
lawyerlyn
thanks for this very neat and useful tip!
Gina
This is awesome. I have my blog correct click disabled since someone stole images of my kids & used them for her fake life on FB. This would have come up in handy before that happened to me. Since I couldn't effort information technology on my blog- I tried it hither to see information technology in action- merely I didn't have to copy the image & upload. When I right clicked- information technology gave me the pick in the drib down to just search epitome in Google. Which then gave me the aforementioned folio yous showed with the results. I will try to use that other tip someone left most dragging the image to the search bar to test it that way. Although I also disabled left click on my images then I may accept to become to my web albums to try this out.
Heather
Wow. Super-cool tip! Found you via Pinterest. Looking forwards to following you! :)
Nilsa @ SoMi Speaks
Interesting weblog post on the reverse image search. So, here's a one that's stumped me: I've put pretty strict restrictions on my online photos (no right clicking to re-create on my web log, Flickr and Facebook). However, that doesn't terminate someone from using my imaging (screen shots circumvent that pretty hands, that's why I've started watermarking my images). Anyway, I wonder if there's a fashion to search images whose URLs are unsearchable???
jer porcaro
Thanks for the dandy tutorial. It was uncomplicated to follow and easy to reach! Honey your stuff!
Jeri
Christina Main
Hmmm I think I may exist completely computer dumb. I did what you said for safari users, "Safari users, right click on the image and select Copy Image Address." And still no such luck… it's not providing me with an appropriate epitome link.
Whatever suggestions?
Go Child Yourself
OMG!! I didn't even know this could be done!! Thanx so much for posting this! I just contrary-searched a pic from my most popular post and institute it LOTS of places… including a news channel in Fayetteville Arkansas where they broadcasted it on their morn news, hahaha! Thanx once again… new follower here!
kelley @ Miss Information
Give thanks you for this! I go on hearing nearly these sites that steal you stuff and repost it and so this volition be helpful! I would love for you to come up share it on I Freakin did information technology Fridays @ Miss Information
Becky K
Swell info, thank you for sharing. Hope it's okay, I pinned this to remember in the future!
Kristina Vanni
This is great. Super helpful. So interesting to see where your photos end up.
Sally
Who knew? Thank you for this informative post.
I hate the idea of watermarking photos, but I wonder if that'southward what everyone should be doing (in tiny print)–with link to original website? What practice you think?
Melissa @ Anoint This Mess
So cool! I thought I was a nobody but low and behold my jazz is all over the identify. I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks…
Lynna
This is crawly! Cheers for sharing ~
Julie
Hullo Amanda! Thanks for the helpful hint. I tried information technology on several of my photos but got this message in Google: The image is also large, or the network connectedness is too tiresome to download information technology.
Any ideas?
Jude Boudreaux
Cheers for the great article, so glad my friend RT'd you on Twitter! I've got a few images that sometimes popular upward in my google analytics traffic results, and I'd been thinking I should bank check around to brand sure they're not beingness used anywhere else. Thank you so much!
Carrie @ poet in the pantry
Thank you for the tip! I recently discovered photos posted on cooking-pics.com without credit or link backs, so this is very appropriate timing.
Kiersten @ Oh My Veggies
Thank you for the tutorial–this much much easier than I thought! I usually simply rely on Google Alerts and pingbacks to find stolen content, just I really demand to start doing this too.
Jill
Thanks so much for this! I establish out that one of my photos was being used by a sausage company with a completely different recipe.
Beth R.
Hey Amanda! I saw your before an later pictures on pinterest supporting a weightloss plan. I clicked on information technology because I idea it was something from your site. I reported it, only you lot might want to keep your eyes out for it!!
Amanda
Thanks and so much for letting me know, Beth! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I end upwards spending a couple hours every night combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them. I usually report well-nigh 150 pins per night! Crazy, isn't it?? If you ever come across one, just send me the URL and I volition study it. :)
Heather Christo
Oh my- that is pretty crazy!!! I will accept to try this. Cheers!
Samantha @ BakedfromaBox
Hey Amanda, thank you for the tutorial! I have institute a huge number of tumblr pages that have copied my photos/recipe post word for word with no source and accept sent an "ask me annihilation" message many times to remove/source the work, but to no avail! Whatsoever tips for tumblr photo stealing?? Many thanks :)
Hannah Margaret
Ohhh human. I am now going to want to check my photos. This is a great tool, thanks a million. xoxo
Brooke
You rock!! Thank you so much.
Katie P
You always have the best tricks and tips! Thanks!! Sadly, I couldn't notice whatsoever of my pictures anywhere else… I guess that's a good thing, though perhaps it but ways I'm unpopular? HA! :)
Katie
This is a great tutorial! Thanks so much! I've been wondering how to exercise something like this, with all of the stolen post drama I've been hearing about. Cheers again!
Claire
very cool, i never knew about this. it helps and so much, esp as we but bought our very first professional camera and we will be trying to post only our own photos now. thanks!
Heather O.
Great tip, thanks! To those using Google Chrome, I chose "copy epitome URL" and and so paste that into a google search. :)
kelly @ sass & veracity
Thanks for the reminder on this — I oasis't washed it in a while and and then spent some time with it this morning. Most of what I discovered for i popular photograph from the archives is not linked to my site in any way. Figures.
Great tutorial as always!
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Corking idea. Yet I use Goggle Chrome and I don't have that option when I correct click. What should I expect for using Chrome when I right click? Sam
Amanda
In Chrome I see the option to Re-create Image URL.
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Amanda, thanks for the help with Chrome. I discovered that if a blogger has a web log roll with your blog listed in their sidebar that shows an image along with a link, you lot'll find information technology when you search as suggested. Sam
Calli
Give thanks y'all for sharing this useful tip! I checked just ane photo from my blog to discover several people who had stolen a whole tutorial from my site… with no link backs or credit given. It was a little discouraging and at the same time very empowering!
Kim - Liv Life
Cheers! I tried it on a number of shots and information technology was fascinating to see how far they have traveled. On the few I checked information technology was all above lath, but will be interesting to keep tabs on things.
Joan Nova
Oh, this is a good mode to lose oneself for a couple of hours! :)
Love your tutorials!
Rhonda
That is cool to know! I swear…I learn something new every unmarried day. Your site has been so entertaining and informative. Cheers so much, Amanda!!!
CJ at Food Stories
Great tip … Thx for sharing :-)
Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti
Thank you so much for this info, Amanda! I am almost afraid to do a search equally I know many people take and use my photos without permission. It is sad that others feel the need to pass off other's work every bit their ain. :( I hate watermarking my photos so I guess that is part of the problem. This tip will help me weed out the worst photo stealing offenders.
marla
This is AWESOME and and then helpful Amanda ~ gonna play around with this at present!
LARY@ Inspiration Nook
This is amazing. I knew some of my photos had gone viral on Pinterest but had no thought some have been used on other blogs that much. Great tip! Thanks Amanda! :)
Amanda
Your site is and so cute! I can encounter why your photos are going viral! :)
Natasha
wow thanks for this swell tip! never knew you could practise this, going to give information technology a try at present and see what i detect
Kristen
I never worry as well much almost this considering I just have found it'due south not really worth my fourth dimension, yet, yous make information technology look and then much easier than whatever other route I've tried. Smart! Thanks for sharing!
Alysa (InspiredRD)
Thank y'all for this!!! I but found a photo of mine on a mag website that was posted back in December of 2010. They pulled the photo off of one of my Tasty Kitchen recipes. What practise I do now? Demand they remove it? Ask for payment? Not sure how to become well-nigh this. Thanks!
Christina Main
Hullo in that location! I would dear to endeavor this, but I have a Safari web browser and neither of your copy image location techniques piece of work. Whatever assistance?
Thanks!
Amanda
Safari users, right click on the prototype and select Copy Image Address.
erin
i use safari, have a blogger blog with my photos backing upwardly to picasa and this doesn't work for me either. :(
Deliciously Organic
Great tip Amanda. Cheers!
Shaina
I beloved this tutorial! Definitely helpful to see who is talking about you or what you're talking about.
Melanie @ Whimsical Creations
So absurd!! Cheers!
Delishhh
Bully tip! Thanks for sharing this!
Sandy
What a great tip! Thanks!
Cora
Cheers Amanda! I fell in dear with your site a long time agone because of mail service similar this, recipes, and your fonts, not considering y'all became pop and have been sent traveling all over the globe and post near trips and pushing products on your readers. It is very refreshing to have some tutorials and fonts back from you then I am motivated to continue reading! This was a very helpful tutorial as well.
Miss Kitty
Thank you and then much for this valuable advice, Amanda. I've been seeing lots of bloggers write about pirating of content and photos lately. Even though I am a little blog I know I need to at to the lowest degree watermark my photos. I haven't found a "painless" mode to practise it without uploading/downloading each photo to a photograph editing site.
Melissa @ Anoint This Mess
Miss Kitty- do you lot photoshop at all? In that location is an like shooting fish in a barrel fashion to brand a stamp in PS so that you can just stamp on your watermark while editing before uploading. It's a slap-up little trick!
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert
Thank you, thank you lot, thanks. I accept found one of my photos is being used numerous places. I tin't understand how people think it is OK to steal! My lemon ice box pie photos are being used all over the place, and non just by me.
Alika
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Urvashee
Thanks for the tip. I just did a search on one photo and unfortunately saw that information technology was misused on multiple sites. One site is in another language and they've watermarked it as their own! Very bummed. Have'nt even checked other photos. Any communication? I remember I have to go back and kickoff watermarking.
Maria
Thanks for sharing! I had no thought you could do this!
Helene
Thanks! I used it today and you are right, some of my pics are on Pinterest. Really like your tips and tutorials.
TidyMom
ooooh, I do that too!!! great tip to share Amanda!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles
Cool. Thanks, Amanda!
Foodiewife
I love your tutorials. Thank you then much.
JulieD
This is awesome. Thank you!!! :)
Teri Dingler
We randomly discoverred someone "grabbed" my facebook groundwork photo I had taken on my Alaskan cruise from my balustrade and posted then put on his facebook as his background! I guess he thought it was lovely!!! I do not re-post anything unless it has a "pin it" button on it as I believe that these vest to the person who posts it unless they have given permission by the "pin it" push button.
Anele @ Success Along the Weigh
I don't know why just I'm scared to do this! LOL
shelly (cookies and cups)
Cool play a trick on! Honey all your bloggy tutorials!
janet tobler
how do you upload a photo to the internet and catch the url? do you have a tutorial for that?
thanks you so much
Amanda
If you don't take a web log and tin't use the tutorial above (which shows y'all how to get the URL from a photograph on your blog), you tin use a site similar Photobucket.com to upload a photo and get the URL.
Anne
Hi Amanda. FYI, at that place is a pinterest post out there (wish I had marked information technology but I didn't) that uses your earlier and later on weight loss pics and when you click on information technology it goes to some weight loss site. Didn't look like annihilation I have seen y'all mention, and so you might desire to search pinterest if you can.
Amanda
Thanks so much for letting me know, Anne! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I stop upward spending a couple hours every dark combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them to Pinterest. I usually report about 150 pins per nighttime! Crazy, isn't information technology?? If you always run across one, just ship me the URL and I will written report information technology. :)
Amanda Dawn
Thanks Amanda! Information technology'southward e'er fun learning something new, geeky, and simple! To recollect, this has been here all along. You're and so clever. :)
cynthia y
You lot can actually but click the photo whether its on a web page or on your desktop and drag it to the Google search box to do the same affair. I just learned this play a joke on a few months ago and its amazing
Jamie
Crawly tip! Thanks Cynthia – and Amanda! The drag and driblet feature is mode better than all that cutting and pasting.
Kim @ In Our Write Minds
I was so excited well-nigh the drag-and-driblet selection! I tried it in IE and Chrome, merely zero happened. Am I missing a pace?
Amanda
Yeah, I'm non sure how accurate this is Kim, I never could get information technology to work either! (Firefox & Safari on Mac)
cynthia y
Hmm I don't know why its not working. This is the only way I expect upwards images and have never had an issue. I practice utilize Google Chrome mostly and never on a MAC. But I think I accept gotten to piece of work on IE and FireFox. I volition endeavor to effigy it out for ya.
Willow
Thanks for the swell tip!
Briana
Wow. This is awesome! So helpful. Thank you for sharing!
Dora Panariti
That's extremely usuful !!! Give thanks you Amanda! :D
Averie @ Averie Cooks
Wow – extremely absurd, helpful and I could have some fun playing around with this!
Candice
You always postal service such useful tips Amanda, thank yous and so much :o) A quick question though – will this work if the person, who has downloaded your photo and "recycled" it for their own use, has renamed the photo? Or volition information technology only piece of work if they re-post the photograph with exactly the same proper name/URL that it originally came with when you posted it – I hope that makes sense?
Amanda
Great question Candice! Yes, it will definitely work if the photo has been renamed — It will fifty-fifty work if the photo has been cropped, resized or fifty-fifty had small-scale changes made to it like lightened or darkened as well.
Candice
That is amazing! Cheers again for this really absurd info :o)
Michele
I wanted to find out if this guy was using a fake photo to endeavour and friend me on facebook so I took 1 of his images. It only so happens he doesn't have a shirt on. I practice the reverse image search and up comes the word "nipple" and definitions and other ways I can photos with a nipple!!! seriously! Any suggestions
Adam
Thanks so much for the tutorial!
EarthAngelle
How near is this the same process searching for private photos that landed in the wrong hands
Ajit kumar sah
i effort to look some special this version .
Riya
I think I got all the information I was looking for. Thanks for this wonderful piece of commodity.
Bister
Hi Kevin and Amanda,
I accept kind of a special situation lol. I submitted a few documents to an organization for a programme I was in. They are at present maxim that I never submitted one of the documents but I'thousand positive I did. How exercise I prove that I did? I still have my internet history and see the date I submitted everything only want to accept proof that the document was submitted to them through their website.
I truly promise yous can help me as this has caused me a major result in retrieving something from them. ?
Connie
Ugh! I am just sick. I just took my virtually popular post and found that someone stole the picture show and photoshopped one of the colors in the picture and called it there own! Information technology was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped film. I lost all of that traffic. Thank y'all so much for posting this, I'll exist closer tabs on my intellectual property!
ioan
I'yard merely curious if this flim-flam works for Instagram.
Nina
Very helpful. Thanks! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Give thanks you! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Thank you!!! :)
Lorrie Walker
Brilliant! Thanks for this handy information.
Lilly Oliver
I tried this for. Pictures off of my twitter but google did non propose taht the pictures were being used on my twitter. Why?
Ramesh
Beloved Kevin,
This is the mail I waited for long time. I had some pics which were not uploaded to net. And some of that pics were accessed past another else without my permission. Now I need to bank check whether that pics are uploaded to internet. How tin I do it. All I take is my pics alone and it does not accept any image url.
N. Lynn Wilson
Someone has uploaded my picture from a phone or computer and put nasty comments under my name.
Mich
Is information technology working on facebook pictures? thanks :)
Samantha
Howdy Amanda,
I'm only curious if this play a trick on works for Instagram. I accept recently opened a folio to share my photography and hopefully make a name for myself a flake. Simply I just found out that people can "steal" your photos. I'g so disappointed. I would similar to know if anyone has done this and so far. I am going to shut my business relationship. But, exercise you know how to find out if someone has done this already? Thank you tons!
Sincerely,
Samantha
John Polk
Mayhap this is featherbrained only is that a special font at the very top that looks like castor on canvas? That looks so cool and grabs attention. Is that a castor or font or what? Loved your commodity.
Bryan
Interesting and and so piece of cake to check, I had been told a while ago it could exist done and so thanks for the piece of cake lesson,
Right at present I'chiliad off to write a letter to the guardian i found 11 of their spider web pages using one of mine images later i said they couldn't, this'll be fun :-)
Aires
Thanks for sharing this ane. It helps me alot to trace the site that has the aforementioned kind of pictures in my own site.
Apollo
I retrieve it's non working on Facebook ..
hoesim
Good to know : ) However, if someone re-create your image url and edited it in Pixlr.com.
Relieve information technology equally their own copy. It is rather hard to trace. I found my epitome was re-create and reused when i lookup in google paradigm under the aforementioned Keyword.
Susanna
Hullo! Thank you for the useful tutorial, but I was wondering if it would piece of work on Facebook pictures. Considering I sent my picture taken from facebook to my ex-friend on kik a while ago before we argued, and I call back she reposted it in some website, but I'm non sure. I'm worried that she might post it on porn websites etc. I tried to practice this to find my pictures but information technology didn't work. And then my question is : Does that trick works on Facebook picture ? Or if you accept any other useful tricks, please let me know. I really Really need your help. Cheers!
Faisal
i want identify the picture of Faisal
shad219
Thanks for the tip! Ilike the huse in the movie too!
Sammi @Sammi Sunshine
Hi Amanda, I have tried this diverse ways, and information technology won't work for me! At all!
Sammi at Sammi Sunshine- A Food Web log
Jen
Much easier -quicker way to search is: in Chrome, right click on any epitome and choose an selection 'Search google for this image' from the drop downwardly carte. Takes a second :) No need for URL.
danielle
pretty awesome-thank u!
Lynne Mikolajczak
I have had a person emailing me since Nov. 19th, 2013. Saying some terrible things about my husband and I. She has sent a photograph. The first one was totally different than the last. The last one she claimed is really her, how tin I observe out who this person is by the photo?
Sonja Bailey
I have a moving-picture show that I am wanting to find out where it came from and who it is I was not able to follow your steps on here please help me
I traced one motion-picture show to a scam simply this one I really think I know this person and need to allow them know if their pic is being used… it is a dating fraud and scamming money
Carrie
Is there any way to do this on a smartphone? And where on the internet are we. supposed to upload the pictures if you're trying to detect where a pic came from either on your smartphone or the computer.. also is the image url and image location different? Cheers.
Jessica
Would this work for Facebook photos as well or but pictures on blogs? I judge if you were able to do it on Facebook, it would definitely accept to exist done on a calculator not a cell phone. I see thedrag and drop method on Catfish all the time but it's never worked for me!
mensajes subliminales
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Siobhan
Thanks for this, I've shared it with a friend who runs a lifestyle weblog and finds her images popping upward *everywhere*. No one uses mine… they are too, ahem, rustic and naive in style :-)
@PamelaMKramer - A Renaissance Woman
In Chrome information technology's a correct click and there is already an option to search. I blog virtually Crossfit just I don't consider myself a Crossfit blogger. It's 1 of my highest traffic posts so I took the epitome from a Paleo before and after challenge that I did and sure enough! It'due south on about iii other sites. I just need to contact i of them to give me proper credit. wow!
Jessica
Wow–although I appreciate this tutorial, I'yard totally creeped out past the number of people stealing my photos (photos that include my immature son). I'm now wondering if there is some code I can identify on my web log to assistance forbid it. :(
Carol
And so what do y'all do if you find 1 that doesn't link back to yous?
I have found one of my pictures, and it doesn't link back to my blog. Its funny that the mail was dated April 2008, I didn't do my post until March 2012.. guess she didn't like her own photo and replaced it with mine! I also have a "content and photos on this site are the sole holding of….." on the side bar.
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divita
Beloved amanda,
I have a few pictures of a daughter saved in my reckoner. Obviously downloaded from Facebook.I haven't used the picture anywhere. Just if a upload that movie on my blog. And if I follow the instructions given by you will I get to know where is it on Facebook. !
I desperately want to know who that flick belongs to.delight help.
Elissa Field
Thanks for this. I had stored link to your post on my Pinterest… and had information technology to refer back to when a question about a pic came up this calendar week. Information technology's unproblematic, but interesting how much information tin be gathered.
Surabhi
I tried this but information technology is non working for me.
Rebecca
You have no thought how grateful I am that yous took the time to post this and share. I found someone who was using i of my art pieces on his weblog without my permission and without credit. This is a spectacular way to continue tabs on my work! Cheers so much!
-Rebecca
Bryan
This is a great resource. I belong to a portfolio site where lots of photographers and artists mutter of their stuff being posted elsewhere. Almost of it is harmless, simply occasionally somebody finds their art in a Samsung ad or some such. A mailing list I subscribe to shared a resources similar to this but requested that list subscribers keep it to themselves for the time existence, which was bugging me. Now I'yard off the claw. :-D
Robert Connor
What a great tip and very overnice site we love i!
Google
Really another keen way is to direct upload that images to google images search so await for similar images which are to your. Google images search is pretty powerful and will detect all those images which look similar without warring most the naming and Y'all will get all the list of images and places where they are existence hosted.
Matt
I always used tineye in the by simply this seems to piece of work better…cheers for this!
shananne
Hi,
just wondering if i tin besides use facebook's photo url?
thanks
Carth Glouie Pandan
Dearest Amanda, I met someone from facebook and his name in that location was Ronnie Powell. He had many pics in FB same all faces. Nosotros've been chatmates for how many months. I think iv months. And everytime I ask him to let me see him on cam, he refuses me. Ane fourth dimension, they went to Paris together with his dad. that was he said to me, and I dont know if he was true or was merely lying. Then by next twenty-four hours, I receive a message from his IM that he encounter accident goin dorsum from Paris to UK. And so, the ane who messaged me was his cousin named Andrew, and when he let me saw him on cam, I was taken aback becuz he looked like a Pakistani and not similarly similar with the guy on the pic. I know they are not bro but even cousins take all the same similar faces. I blocked him and unblocked him over again. After few weeks he came back and said that why he blocked me and reply on his messages. I told him that he was non the guy on the pic and he insisted that it was him, but i still accept a doubtfulness. So, how would I know who is the guy on the pic? volition i able to know him – the existent name of the guy on the motion-picture show Even IF Information technology WAS TAKEN FROM FB using ur trick and will i able to know where that stupid wannabe stole that picture show that he used to pretend? Delight assistance me…
Robert Connor
Some groovy info – we look frontwards to reading more! Have a great day on purpose.
Marinos
Just go to http://images.google.com and elevate-drop whatever photo there. either from your computer or from another website. (open your website on one tab and google images on another tab. elevate the photograph from your website to the google images tab on top of your browser. it will then go to google images. drop the photo in the search box)
Enjoy!
Nazihah Ismail
Great post! Never knew I tin rail them. Thanks!! :D
Krystina Rotolo
hi, I highly enjoyed yous guys mail. devout christian reader out
Taylor
Thank you then much for this! It volition exist very handy :)
Rosey
What a great tip, I'chiliad going to go try it. Visiting today from Permit'south Get Social Sunday.
Brenda @ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com
WOW! Cheers, Amanda!! I cannot believe how simple this is! Thank you lot for the very helpful and piece of cake-to-understand tutorial! Much appreciated ;)
Promise you savor a fabled weekend! :)
zee
Thanks for the great tip. I just saw information technology and found another way to practice it. I have not read the 100+ comments, and so I don't know if someone has already posted it. Anyhow, hither'south how…
Go to google.com –>
On the header (of You+, Search, Images… ) click on "Images" –>
At the stop of the search field, there is a camera icon, click on information technology. (when you hover over it, it will say "search past epitome") –>
You can either "Paste image URL" or click on "Upload an image". Click on upload an epitome if you lot have no URL, or if you desire a quick way of searching images you have on your PC. –>
You lot tin can now scan and select your paradigm, or simply elevate an image file from your explorer into the search field… –>
And there you have it, your image searched… :)
Fauzi
nami
You got me so excited, I put it on my list of "to do" for this Saturday!!:) cheers for sharing!!!
Addicted to Recipes
Thanks for sharing this post, I just did a random check of some photos and found a website that has copied every single i of my recipes and photos…ugh!
Kim P
Howdy Amanda.
I have IE and tried searching a few of my blog tutorial pictures using your instructions to a higher place. I tin not get any results from any of my attempts. Information technology does not even find where I posted my own pictures to my ain blog, FB, Twitter, or Pintrest posts. I'one thousand not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Jenny
i was agape to read this and so notice out people were stealing my pictures but i didn't find annihilation so i experience better now :P
Cher'ley
All I go is the image with no information. I saw a photo I wanted to employ in my ebook. It was sent as a Valentine salutation and it is so cute (Two horses hugging), just I don't know how to find out who owns it so I can go permission to utilise it. Thanks.
Matt
Unfortunately this won't work in 99% of cases of image theft. This volition but piece of work if the person has shared your image to their blog or website. If they right clicked and saved the image like 99% of people do, so upload the paradigm this doesn't work. So information technology's basically useless.
Caitlin
Julia, I would feel more comfortable discussing farther with you but over some private
measure such equally email. I'm non even sure I understand this site here. To my noesis neither Kevin or Amanda ever responded to me.
Thanks,
Caitlin
Tricia
Ugh! I am just sick. I only took my most popular mail and establish that someone stole the picture and photoshopped one of the colors in the picture and called it at that place own! It was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped picture. I lost all of that traffic. Cheers and so much for posting this, I'll be closer tabs on my intellectual property!
atlanta school of performing arts
Hi in that location, i just wanted to drop yous a line to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this detail post of yours, I have subscribed to your RSS feeds and have skimmed a few of your posts before just this i really stood out for me. I know that I am but a stranger to you but I figured you lot might appreciate the appreciation Take care and go on blogging.
Salammbö
Dear Amanda, thank you very much for this very useful tip. Now I constitute out that a picture of mine has been used to illustrate the weblog of an escort-daughter. ;) THANKS !
Ed
I tried to use this for my pics on flickr but it doesn't seem to be working. Is there a way to do this with photos on flickr?
Salammbö
Hullo Ed, I just spent xx minutes checking my own Flickr pictures so I can clinch you it works. :)
Correct-click on the 'preview' on your pictures on the gallery, non on the picture show page. Have fun :)
Jessica
I've always used tineye.com for this, merely it'southward nice to know there is another choice that might catch things the other missed. I've always watermarked my photos, merely it'due south easy to crop those out anymore.
Jennifer
How would you lot do this if you have right click disabled on your blog. Is in that location another manner to get the file location or URL?
Caitlin
PS. The poser/thief has taken this adult female'southward photograph and created a simulated FB folio besides. I turned it in as a fake but it's still up.
I have a MAC if that helps you to answer. And I'm non very computer savvy.
Thank y'all so much. I can't believe I cruel for such a savage and deceitful ploy. Embarrassed is all I can say.
Caitlin
julia
Hello Caitlin, Just read your comments & my middle sank… mainly because i am trying to get google reverse paradigm to piece of work for me on my mac & ipad. Tineye works for me but i'chiliad needing more results! I am trying to learn if I take been catfished once over again!! I have met way too many fakes as y'all depict. Can you share the fake FB profile name?
thank you, julia
Caitlin
Amanda and Kevin,
Can y'all assistance? Photos were sent to me (nosotros met on an online dating site) and turns out the person on the site is pretending to exist this woman. It's actually a man posing as her. He has sent some pics that I highly doubt she would want floating around (not sure how she feels about not-heterosexuality only it's a lesbian dating site). The poser is sucking a lot of women in for certain.
Is there a way to take the photos and try and learn who she is then that she can be told what the heck is happening to her photos? I just have photos sent to me via email. If I were in her position, I would want to know.
I tried on google reverse photo search with no luck and tineye with no luck.
Thank you for your help.
Caitlin
Jouhaina
I'm number 112 in your comments, and information technology'due south simply Vivid ! Thanks
ada
Wow! Peachy tutorial, thank you!!!
malaysia
how do you do this on windows 8 for facebook ?
Michelle Male monarch
Very absurd! I merely found a bookmark I had made in May that people accept pinned on Pinterest. I'g glad I had something people thought was fun and/or useful :)
Alana (@RamblinGarden)
I just found this through Pinterest – THANK YOU! I had the feel of several of my photos (pinned from my blog) ending upward on Pinterest weight lost "spam" sites – and at least ane(which was not related at all to porn) on a board I would characterize equally soft porn with a weight loss message. Disgusting! Thank you a third fourth dimension!
Ale
This is awesome, and then useful! Give thanks YOU!
j
my question is what do you lot do when someone is stealing your photos/posts? Especially the foreign ones– I don't really know how to end them.
Abby
Ack. I can't BELIEVE how many people take stolen my photos. I see higher up that someone has given an even easier way to track down thieves. Anyone know of a plan that alerts you if an image is republished?
Suzan
I tried this with a photo I know for a fact was taken and put as someone'due south Facebook profile photo. Information technology only showed the link to my blog, not to the Facebook page.
Valerie
Smashing little trick! I kind if enjoy seeing my photos on tumblr sites. :)
Kim - Liv Life
Excellent info!! The first one I put in brought upwards my photo and my recipe on someone else'southward site with a flake "pin it" push over the elevation of MY photo on THEIR site. Ugh!!!
Enid
Wow, thank yous for sharing! I tried this and found someone using my pictures to advertise for their business! Yikes!
Naomi
You could also drag the paradigm from your web log , pc, mac drag and drop the paradigm in Google Images search and it will practice the very same thing. Yous'll get the aforementioned results. :-)
Sam Rk
thank you lot so much for this! very helpful !
Dana @dbuenovida
Give thanks you for such a helpful mail service Amanda!!
aida mollenkamp
Such a central tip, Amanda. Thank you for sharing!
Jenn @therebelchick
I had no idea how to do this, cheers so much! I know someone has taken photos from my site only at present I actually see what they are doing with them!
theurbanbaker
This could get my new obsession. I am non sure if I should exist thanking yous or cursing you! :)
Jessica Kent
Every fourth dimension I encounter something that I know is from your site (which I seem to have memorized because I've been a regular reader for so long) or other blogs I frequent on Pinterest or anywhere else, I brand sure to "comment" who should get the credit. : )
Lately I've been seeing your t-shirt scarf pop up a lot.
Brandon
You can go to Google Images at http://images.google.com and click the little camera on the right side of the search box. And then you can paste your URL or even upload your own image there.
Heather D.
Thanks Amanda for posting this tutorial! Later on following it I institute 2 of my images posted on two different sites. :( One cropped it and posted it as a free wallpaper download. I can't find an owner to the website, then I accept no one to email :( I tried posting in the comments section merely it's still "awaiting moderation" GRRR!!! The other 1 I establish an email for and sent them a message to remove my image. We'll run into how that goes…
Deanna
Super helpful tutorial! I just found one if your pics on pinterest besides, and came over to send information technology to you, but I don't see whatever contact info for you – assistance! Exercise I just need meliorate spectacles?? :)
lawyerlyn
thanks for this very neat and useful tip!
Gina
This is awesome. I have my blog correct click disabled since someone stole images of my kids & used them for her fake life on FB. This would have come up in handy before that happened to me. Since I couldn't effort information technology on my blog- I tried it hither to see information technology in action- merely I didn't have to copy the image & upload. When I right clicked- information technology gave me the pick in the drib down to just search epitome in Google. Which then gave me the aforementioned folio yous showed with the results. I will try to use that other tip someone left most dragging the image to the search bar to test it that way. Although I also disabled left click on my images then I may accept to become to my web albums to try this out.
Heather
Wow. Super-cool tip! Found you via Pinterest. Looking forwards to following you! :)
Nilsa @ SoMi Speaks
Interesting weblog post on the reverse image search. So, here's a one that's stumped me: I've put pretty strict restrictions on my online photos (no right clicking to re-create on my web log, Flickr and Facebook). However, that doesn't terminate someone from using my imaging (screen shots circumvent that pretty hands, that's why I've started watermarking my images). Anyway, I wonder if there's a fashion to search images whose URLs are unsearchable???
jer porcaro
Thanks for the dandy tutorial. It was uncomplicated to follow and easy to reach!
Honey your stuff!
Jeri
Christina Main
Hmmm I think I may exist completely computer dumb. I did what you said for safari users, "Safari users, right click on the image and select Copy Image Address." And still no such luck… it's not providing me with an appropriate epitome link.
Whatever suggestions?
Go Child Yourself
OMG!! I didn't even know this could be done!! Thanx so much for posting this!
I just contrary-searched a pic from my most popular post and institute it LOTS of places… including a news channel in Fayetteville Arkansas where they broadcasted it on their morn news, hahaha!
Thanx once again… new follower here!
kelley @ Miss Information
Give thanks you for this! I go on hearing nearly these sites that steal you stuff and repost it and so this volition be helpful! I would love for you to come up share it on I Freakin did information technology Fridays @ Miss Information
Becky K
Swell info, thank you for sharing. Hope it's okay, I pinned this to remember in the future!
Kristina Vanni
This is great. Super helpful. So interesting to see where your photos end up.
Sally
Who knew? Thank you for this informative post.
I hate the idea of watermarking photos, but I wonder if that'southward what everyone should be doing (in tiny print)–with link to original website? What practice you think?
Melissa @ Anoint This Mess
So cool! I thought I was a nobody but low and behold my jazz is all over the identify. I'll take that as a compliment! Thanks…
Lynna
This is crawly! Cheers for sharing ~
Julie
Hullo Amanda! Thanks for the helpful hint. I tried information technology on several of my photos but got this message in Google: The image is also large, or the network connectedness is too tiresome to download information technology.
Any ideas?
Jude Boudreaux
Cheers for the great article, so glad my friend RT'd you on Twitter! I've got a few images that sometimes popular upward in my google analytics traffic results, and I'd been thinking I should bank check around to brand sure they're not beingness used anywhere else. Thank you so much!
Carrie @ poet in the pantry
Thank you for the tip! I recently discovered photos posted on cooking-pics.com without credit or link backs, so this is very appropriate timing.
Kiersten @ Oh My Veggies
Thank you for the tutorial–this much much easier than I thought! I usually simply rely on Google Alerts and pingbacks to find stolen content, just I really demand to start doing this too.
Jill
Thanks so much for this! I establish out that one of my photos was being used by a sausage company with a completely different recipe.
Beth R.
Hey Amanda! I saw your before an later pictures on pinterest supporting a weightloss plan. I clicked on information technology because I idea it was something from your site. I reported it, only you lot might want to keep your eyes out for it!!
Amanda
Thanks and so much for letting me know, Beth! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I end upwards spending a couple hours every night combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them. I usually report well-nigh 150 pins per night! Crazy, isn't it?? If you ever come across one, just send me the URL and I volition study it. :)
Heather Christo
Oh my- that is pretty crazy!!! I will accept to try this. Cheers!
Samantha @ BakedfromaBox
Hey Amanda, thank you for the tutorial! I have institute a huge number of tumblr pages that have copied my photos/recipe post word for word with no source and accept sent an "ask me annihilation" message many times to remove/source the work, but to no avail! Whatsoever tips for tumblr photo stealing??
Many thanks :)
Hannah Margaret
Ohhh human. I am now going to want to check my photos. This is a great tool, thanks a million. xoxo
Brooke
You rock!! Thank you so much.
Katie P
You always have the best tricks and tips! Thanks!! Sadly, I couldn't notice whatsoever of my pictures anywhere else… I guess that's a good thing, though perhaps it but ways I'm unpopular? HA! :)
Katie
This is a great tutorial! Thanks so much! I've been wondering how to exercise something like this, with all of the stolen post drama I've been hearing about. Cheers again!
Claire
very cool, i never knew about this. it helps and so much, esp as we but bought our very first professional camera and we will be trying to post only our own photos now. thanks!
Heather O.
Great tip, thanks! To those using Google Chrome, I chose "copy epitome URL" and and so paste that into a google search. :)
kelly @ sass & veracity
Thanks for the reminder on this — I oasis't washed it in a while and and then spent some time with it this morning. Most of what I discovered for i popular photograph from the archives is not linked to my site in any way. Figures.
Great tutorial as always!
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Corking idea. Yet I use Goggle Chrome and I don't have that option when I correct click. What should I expect for using Chrome when I right click?
Sam
Amanda
In Chrome I see the option to Re-create Image URL.
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Amanda, thanks for the help with Chrome. I discovered that if a blogger has a web log roll with your blog listed in their sidebar that shows an image along with a link, you lot'll find information technology when you search as suggested.
Sam
Calli
Give thanks y'all for sharing this useful tip! I checked just ane photo from my blog to discover several people who had stolen a whole tutorial from my site… with no link backs or credit given. It was a little discouraging and at the same time very empowering!
Kim - Liv Life
Cheers! I tried it on a number of shots and information technology was fascinating to see how far they have traveled. On the few I checked information technology was all above lath, but will be interesting to keep tabs on things.
Joan Nova
Oh, this is a good mode to lose oneself for a couple of hours! :)
Love your tutorials!
Rhonda
That is cool to know! I swear…I learn something new every unmarried day. Your site has been so entertaining and informative. Cheers so much, Amanda!!!
CJ at Food Stories
Great tip … Thx for sharing :-)
Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti
Thank you so much for this info, Amanda! I am almost afraid to do a search equally I know many people take and use my photos without permission. It is sad that others feel the need to pass off other's work every bit their ain. :( I hate watermarking my photos so I guess that is part of the problem. This tip will help me weed out the worst photo stealing offenders.
marla
This is AWESOME and and then helpful Amanda ~ gonna play around with this at present!
LARY@ Inspiration Nook
This is amazing. I knew some of my photos had gone viral on Pinterest but had no thought some have been used on other blogs that much. Great tip! Thanks Amanda! :)
Amanda
Your site is and so cute! I can encounter why your photos are going viral! :)
Natasha
wow thanks for this swell tip! never knew you could practise this, going to give information technology a try at present and see what i detect
Kristen
I never worry as well much almost this considering I just have found it'due south not really worth my fourth dimension, yet, yous make information technology look and then much easier than whatever other route I've tried. Smart! Thanks for sharing!
Alysa (InspiredRD)
Thank y'all for this!!! I but found a photo of mine on a mag website that was posted back in December of 2010. They pulled the photo off of one of my Tasty Kitchen recipes. What practise I do now? Demand they remove it? Ask for payment? Not sure how to become well-nigh this. Thanks!
Christina Main
Hullo in that location! I would dear to endeavor this, but I have a Safari web browser and neither of your copy image location techniques piece of work. Whatever assistance?
Thanks!
Amanda
Safari users, right click on the prototype and select Copy Image Address.
erin
i use safari, have a blogger blog with my photos backing upwardly to picasa and this doesn't work for me either. :(
Deliciously Organic
Great tip Amanda. Cheers!
Shaina
I beloved this tutorial! Definitely helpful to see who is talking about you or what you're talking about.
Melanie @ Whimsical Creations
So absurd!! Cheers!
Delishhh
Bully tip! Thanks for sharing this!
Sandy
What a great tip! Thanks!
Cora
Cheers Amanda! I fell in dear with your site a long time agone because of mail service similar this, recipes, and your fonts, not considering y'all became pop and have been sent traveling all over the globe and post near trips and pushing products on your readers. It is very refreshing to have some tutorials and fonts back from you then I am motivated to continue reading! This was a very helpful tutorial as well.
Miss Kitty
Thank you and then much for this valuable advice, Amanda. I've been seeing lots of bloggers write about pirating of content and photos lately. Even though I am a little blog I know I need to at to the lowest degree watermark my photos. I haven't found a "painless" mode to practise it without uploading/downloading each photo to a photograph editing site.
Melissa @ Anoint This Mess
Miss Kitty- do you lot photoshop at all? In that location is an like shooting fish in a barrel fashion to brand a stamp in PS so that you can just stamp on your watermark while editing before uploading. It's a slap-up little trick!
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert
Thank you, thank you lot, thanks. I accept found one of my photos is being used numerous places. I tin't understand how people think it is OK to steal! My lemon ice box pie photos are being used all over the place, and non just by me.
Alika
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Urvashee
Thanks for the tip. I just did a search on one photo and unfortunately saw that information technology was misused on multiple sites. One site is in another language and they've watermarked it as their own! Very bummed. Have'nt even checked other photos. Any communication? I remember I have to go back and kickoff watermarking.
Maria
Thanks for sharing! I had no thought you could do this!
Helene
Thanks! I used it today and you are right, some of my pics are on Pinterest. Really like your tips and tutorials.
TidyMom
ooooh, I do that too!!! great tip to share Amanda!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles
Cool. Thanks, Amanda!
Foodiewife
I love your tutorials. Thank you then much.
JulieD
This is awesome. Thank you!!! :)
Teri Dingler
We randomly discoverred someone "grabbed" my facebook groundwork photo I had taken on my Alaskan cruise from my balustrade and posted then put on his facebook as his background! I guess he thought it was lovely!!! I do not re-post anything unless it has a "pin it" button on it as I believe that these vest to the person who posts it unless they have given permission by the "pin it" push button.
Anele @ Success Along the Weigh
I don't know why just I'm scared to do this! LOL
shelly (cookies and cups)
Cool play a trick on! Honey all your bloggy tutorials!
janet tobler
how do you upload a photo to the internet and catch the url?
do you have a tutorial for that?
thanks you so much
Amanda
If you don't take a web log and tin't use the tutorial above (which shows y'all how to get the URL from a photograph on your blog), you tin use a site similar Photobucket.com to upload a photo and get the URL.
Anne
Hi Amanda. FYI, at that place is a pinterest post out there (wish I had marked information technology but I didn't) that uses your earlier and later on weight loss pics and when you click on information technology it goes to some weight loss site. Didn't look like annihilation I have seen y'all mention, and so you might desire to search pinterest if you can.
Amanda
Thanks so much for letting me know, Anne! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I stop upward spending a couple hours every dark combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them to Pinterest. I usually report about 150 pins per nighttime! Crazy, isn't information technology?? If you always run across one, just ship me the URL and I will written report information technology. :)
Amanda Dawn
Thanks Amanda! Information technology'southward e'er fun learning something new, geeky, and simple! To recollect, this has been here all along. You're and so clever. :)
cynthia y
You lot can actually but click the photo whether its on a web page or on your desktop and drag it to the Google search box to do the same affair. I just learned this play a joke on a few months ago and its amazing
Jamie
Crawly tip! Thanks Cynthia – and Amanda! The drag and driblet feature is mode better than all that cutting and pasting.
Kim @ In Our Write Minds
I was so excited well-nigh the drag-and-driblet selection! I tried it in IE and Chrome, merely zero happened. Am I missing a pace?
Amanda
Yeah, I'm non sure how accurate this is Kim, I never could get information technology to work either! (Firefox & Safari on Mac)
cynthia y
Hmm I don't know why its not working. This is the only way I expect upwards images and have never had an issue. I practice utilize Google Chrome mostly and never on a MAC. But I think I accept gotten to piece of work on IE and FireFox. I volition endeavor to effigy it out for ya.
Willow
Thanks for the swell tip!
Briana
Wow. This is awesome! So helpful. Thank you for sharing!
Dora Panariti
That's extremely usuful !!! Give thanks you Amanda! :D
Averie @ Averie Cooks
Wow – extremely absurd, helpful and I could have some fun playing around with this!
Candice
You always postal service such useful tips Amanda, thank yous and so much :o)
A quick question though – will this work if the person, who has downloaded your photo and "recycled" it for their own use, has renamed the photo? Or volition information technology only piece of work if they re-post the photograph with exactly the same proper name/URL that it originally came with when you posted it – I hope that makes sense?
Amanda
Great question Candice! Yes, it will definitely work if the photo has been renamed — It will fifty-fifty work if the photo has been cropped, resized or fifty-fifty had small-scale changes made to it like lightened or darkened as well.
Candice
That is amazing! Cheers again for this really absurd info :o)