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