As a blogger, you work hard to find that perfect image to illustrate your post each day. Does the thought of someone ripping off the photo that you took of your kids infuriate you? How do you protect yourself?
For starters, you can put a watermark on all your images. This will help prevent people from ripping your images off.
The second thing you can do is a "reverse image look up." TinEye, is online software that will let you upload a photo to see if it is being used elsewhere. You can also look up images by giving it a url to one of your images. This tool is still in beta, so there are a few kinks to be worked out.
Give it a whirl: TinEye.com
Monday, October 26, 2009
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Great tips!! I am off to check this out!
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Amanda
I've actually had this very issue, I'm going to check out TinEye!
ReplyDelete-->Have you had someone steal your pictures before?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip too.
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I keep debating whether this is something I should do or not. I guess I really out to. But ugh! Is my mom gonna be irritated when she can't upload my pics anymore off my blog, lol
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info....I have thought about this. I'll look into it, thanks :)
ReplyDeleteGreat and helpful hints. I know a few blogger that have been vistims of not only their photod but their entire posted being stolen.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'm going to bookmark that site!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip! I had no idea you could do a reverse image lookup. thanks for the lilnk to the source.
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I always wondered how people got their names on their pictures. Thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteThis is great - thanks for sharing! I recently had someone copy a photo of my daughter from a review/giveaway post I'd done to use in her looooooong post of giveaways she did to get extra entries in all of the contests for blogging.
ReplyDeleteHow can people think that this is ok?!? I've added a copyright message, but that's not going to do much. And no, I don't think asking hubby for a 3 hour time out is asking too much!! After all, how many hours did you carry his baby all by yourself? 24 hours times 30 days times 9 1/2 months...something like that! :)
Wow! I had never even thought about this. There is an endless amount of info and saveguards and html and....it's hard work being a blogger. lol
ReplyDeleteAre you putting a watermark on with paint?
I found some free software called Paint.Net, but hope to get Adobe CS4 (or at least Photoshop) soon.
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