I wanted to detect out if this guy was using a fake photo to try and friend me on facebook and then I took one of his images. It just so happens he doesn't have a shirt on. I do the reverse paradigm search and upwardly comes the word "nipple" and definitions and other ways I can photos with a nipple!!! seriously! Whatsoever suggestions
Adam
Cheers so much for the tutorial!
EarthAngelle
How about is this the same process searching for private photos that landed in the wrong easily
Ajit kumar sah
i try to wait some special this version .
Riya
I think I got all the data I was looking for. Thanks for this wonderful piece of article.
Amber
Hello Kevin and Amanda,
I have kind of a special situation lol. I submitted a few documents to an arrangement for a program I was in. They are now saying that I never submitted one of the documents only I'm positive I did. How do I evidence that I did? I yet have my internet history and see the appointment I submitted everything only want to have proof that the document was submitted to them through their website.
I truly hope you can help me as this has caused me a major issue in retrieving something from them. ?
Connie
Ugh! I am just sick. I simply took my most popular post and found that someone stole the picture and photoshopped ane of the colors in the picture and called it there own! It was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped picture. I lost all of that traffic. Thank you so much for posting this, I'll be closer tabs on my intellectual property!
ioan
I'm simply curious if this trick works for Instagram.
Nina
Very helpful. Thank you! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Thanks! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Thank yous!!! :)
Lorrie Walker
Brilliant! Thanks for this handy information.
Lilly Oliver
I tried this for. Pictures off of my twitter merely google did not suggest taht the pictures were being used on my twitter. Why?
Ramesh
Dear Kevin, This is the post I waited for long fourth dimension. I had some pics which were not uploaded to internet. And some of that pics were accessed by another else without my permission. Now I need to cheque whether that pics are uploaded to net. How tin I practise it. All I have is my pics alone and it does not have any image url.
North. Lynn Wilson
Someone has uploaded my picture from a phone or computer and put nasty comments under my name.
Mich
Is it working on facebook pictures? thanks :)
Samantha
Hello Amanda, I'one thousand just curious if this trick works for Instagram. I have recently opened a page to share my photography and hopefully make a name for myself a bit. But I just plant out that people can "steal" your photos. I'm and so disappointed. I would like to know if anyone has done this so far. I am going to shut my account. Just, do you know how to discover out if someone has washed this already? Give thanks you tons! Sincerely, Samantha
John Polk
Maybe this is silly but is that a special font at the very pinnacle that looks like castor on canvas? That looks so cool and grabs attention. Is that a brush or font or what? Loved your article.
Bryan
Interesting and so easy to check, I had been told a while agone it could be washed so thanks for the piece of cake lesson, Right now I'one thousand off to write a alphabetic character to the guardian i found 11 of their web pages using 1 of mine images after i said they couldn't, this'll be fun :-)
Aires
Thanks for sharing this 1. It helps me alot to trace the site that has the same kind of pictures in my own site.
Apollo
I think it'due south not working on Facebook ..
hoesim
Proficient to know : ) However, if someone copy your image url and edited information technology in Pixlr.com. Save information technology equally their own re-create. It is rather hard to trace. I establish my image was copy and reused when i lookup in google image under the same Keyword.
Susanna
Hi! Thank yous for the useful tutorial, only I was wondering if information technology would work on Facebook pictures. Because I sent my picture taken from facebook to my ex-friend on kik a while ago before we argued, and I think she reposted information technology in some website, only I'1000 not sure. I'k worried that she might post it on porn websites etc. I tried to do this to find my pictures only information technology didn't piece of work. So my question is : Does that fox works on Facebook picture ? Or if you lot take whatsoever other useful tricks, please let me know. I actually Actually demand your help. Give thanks yous!
Faisal
i want identify the picture of Faisal
shad219
Thank you for the tip! Ilike the huse in the pic as well!
Sammi @Sammi Sunshine
Hi Amanda, I have tried this various means, and it won't work for me! At all!
Sammi at Sammi Sunshine- A Food Blog
Jen
Much easier -quicker fashion to search is: in Chrome, right click on any epitome and choose an choice 'Search google for this image' from the drop downwardly menu. Takes a second :) No need for URL.
danielle
pretty crawly-thank u!
Lynne Mikolajczak
I have had a person emailing me since November. 19th, 2013. Saying some terrible things about my hubby and I. She has sent a photo. The first one was totally dissimilar than the last. The final i she claimed is really her, how can I find out who this person is by the photograph?
Sonja Bailey
I take a picture that I am wanting to notice 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 to a scam merely this one I really call back I know this person and need to let them know if their pic is existence used… it is a dating fraud and scamming money
Carrie
Is there any manner to practice this on a smartphone? And where on the internet are we. supposed to upload the pictures if you're trying to find where a picture show came from either on your smartphone or the computer.. besides is the image url and image location different? Cheers.
Jessica
Would this piece of work for Facebook photos too or only pictures on blogs? I approximate if you were able to practise it on Facebook, it would definitely have to be done on a reckoner not a jail cell telephone. I see thedrag and drib method on Catfish all the time but it'due south never worked for me!
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Siobhan
Thanks for this, I've shared information technology with a friend who runs a lifestyle weblog and finds her images popping upwardly *everywhere*. No one uses mine… they are besides, ahem, rustic and naive in way :-)
@PamelaMKramer - A Renaissance Adult female
In Chrome it'southward a right click and in that location is already an selection to search. I weblog about Crossfit but I don't consider myself a Crossfit blogger. It'southward 1 of my highest traffic posts so I took the prototype from a Paleo before and subsequently challenge that I did and sure enough! Information technology'due south on about iii other sites. I only need to contact one of them to give me proper credit. wow!
Jessica
Wow–although I appreciate this tutorial, I'm totally creeped out past the number of people stealing my photos (photos that include my immature son). I'm now wondering if in that location is some code I can identify on my web log to help prevent it. :(
Carol
So what practice y'all do if you find ane that doesn't link back to you? I have found i of my pictures, and information technology doesn't link back to my blog. Its funny that the post was dated April 2008, I didn't exercise my mail service until March 2012.. guess she didn't like her ain photo and replaced information technology with mine! I also have a "content and photos on this site are the sole property of….." on the side bar.
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divita
Beloved amanda, I accept a few pictures of a daughter saved in my computer. Plain downloaded from Facebook.I haven't used the moving-picture show anywhere. Merely if a upload that picture on my blog. And if I follow the instructions given past you lot will I go to know where is it on Facebook. ! I desperately desire to know who that moving-picture show belongs to.please help.
Elissa Field
Thanks for this. I had stored link to your post on my Pinterest… and had it to refer back to when a question well-nigh a picture came upwards this week. Information technology's simple, but interesting how much information can be gathered.
Surabhi
I tried this but it is not working for me.
Rebecca
You have no thought how grateful I am that you lot took the time to post this and share. I found someone who was using one of my art pieces on his weblog without my permission and without credit. This is a spectacular manner to keep tabs on my piece of work! Thank you and so much!
-Rebecca
Bryan
This is a bang-up resource. I belong to a portfolio site where lots of photographers and artists mutter of their stuff beingness posted elsewhere. Nigh of it is harmless, but occasionally somebody finds their fine art in a Samsung ad or some such. A mailing list I subscribe to shared a resource like to this but requested that list subscribers continue it to themselves for the fourth dimension being, which was bugging me. Now I'g off the claw. :-D
Robert Connor
What a great tip and very nice site we dearest i!
Google
Actually another great way is to directly upload that images to google images search and and then expect for similar images which are to your. Google images search is pretty powerful and volition discover all those images which look similar without warring about the naming and Y'all will get all the list of images and places where they are beingness hosted.
Matt
I ever used tineye in the past but this seems to work better…thanks for this!
shananne
Hullo, but wondering if i can also employ facebook'due south photograph url? thanks
Carth Glouie Pandan
Dear Amanda, I met someone from facebook and his name there was Ronnie Powell. He had many pics in FB same all faces. We've been chatmates for how many months. I think four months. And everytime I ask him to let me encounter him on cam, he refuses me. Ane time, they went to Paris together with his dad. that was he said to me, and I dont know if he was true or was only lying. So by next day, I receive a bulletin from his IM that he encounter accident goin dorsum from Paris to UK. Then, the one who messaged me was his cousin named Andrew, and when he allow me saw him on cam, I was taken aback becuz he looked similar a Pakistani and not similarly like with the guy on the pic. I know they are not bro but even cousins accept still similar faces. I blocked him and unblocked him again. Subsequently few weeks he came dorsum and said that why he blocked me and answer on his letters. I told him that he was non the guy on the pic and he insisted that it was him, but i all the same accept a doubt. And so, how would I know who is the guy on the motion picture? will i able to know him – the existent name of the guy on the pic EVEN IF IT WAS TAKEN FROM FB using ur trick and will i able to know where that stupid wannabe stole that picture that he used to pretend? Please aid me…
Robert Connor
Some slap-up info – we await forward to reading more! Have a great day on purpose.
Marinos
Just go to http://images.google.com and elevate-driblet any photo there. either from your computer or from another website. (open your website on 1 tab and google images on some other tab. drag the photograph from your website to the google images tab on top of your browser. it will then go to google images. driblet the photo in the search box) Bask!
Nazihah Ismail
Nifty post! Never knew I tin track them. Thanks!! :D
Krystina Rotolo
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Taylor
Cheers so much for this! It will be very handy :)
Rosey
What a great tip, I'm going to get attempt it. Visiting today from Let'due south Get Social Dominicus.
Brenda @ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com
WOW! Thanks, Amanda!! I cannot believe how simple this is! Cheers for the very helpful and piece of cake-to-understand tutorial! Much appreciated ;) Promise you enjoy a fabulous weekend! :)
zee
Thanks for the dandy tip. I just saw information technology and found another way to practise it. I have not read the 100+ comments, so I don't know if someone has already posted it. Anyway, here'due south how…
Become to google.com –> On the header (of You+, Search, Images… ) click on "Images" –> At the end of the search field, in that location is a camera icon, click on it. (when you lot hover over it, information technology will say "search past paradigm") –> You can either "Paste paradigm URL" or click on "Upload an image". Click on upload an image if you have no URL, or if you want a quick way of searching images you accept on your PC. –> Y'all can now scan and select your image, or simply elevate an paradigm 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 practice" for this Saturday!!:) cheers for sharing!!!
Addicted to Recipes
Thank you for sharing this postal service, I just did a random check of some photos and found a website that has copied every single 1 of my recipes and photos…ugh!
Kim P
Hi Amanda. I have IE and tried searching a few of my blog tutorial pictures using your instructions above. I can non become any results from any of my attempts. It does non fifty-fifty find where I posted my own pictures to my own blog, FB, Twitter, or Pintrest posts. I'g not certain what I'm doing wrong.
Jenny
i was agape to read this and so observe out people were stealing my pictures but i didn't find anything so i experience better now :P
Cher'ley
All I get is the epitome with no information. I saw a photo I wanted to apply in my ebook. It was sent equally a Valentine salutation and information technology is so cute (Two horses hugging), but I don't know how to find out who owns it and then I can get permission to use it. Thank you.
Matt
Unfortunately this won't work in 99% of cases of image theft. This will simply work if the person has shared your image to their blog or website. If they correct clicked and saved the image similar 99% of people do, then upload the epitome this doesn't work. So it's basically useless.
Caitlin
Julia, I would feel more comfy discussing further with yous but over some individual measure such every bit email. I'm not fifty-fifty sure I understand this site hither. To my knowledge neither Kevin or Amanda ever responded to me.
Thanks, Caitlin
Tricia
Ugh! I am just ill. I just took my most popular postal service and found that someone stole the motion picture and photoshopped one of the colors in the picture and called information technology in that location own! It was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped moving-picture show. I lost all of that traffic. Give thanks you so much for posting this, I'll exist closer tabs on my intellectual property!
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Hi there, i just wanted to drop you a line to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this particular postal service of yours, I have subscribed to your RSS feeds and have skimmed a few of your posts earlier but this i really stood out for me. I know that I am merely a stranger to you but I figured y'all might appreciate the appreciation Take care and go on blogging.
Salammbö
Dear Amanda, cheers very much for this very useful tip. At present I institute out that a moving-picture show of mine has been used to illustrate the weblog of an escort-girl. ;) THANKS !
Ed
I tried to employ this for my pics on flickr but it doesn't seem to be working. Is there a manner to do this with photos on flickr?
Salammbö
Howdy Ed, I simply spent twenty minutes checking my ain Flickr pictures so I tin can assure you it works. :) Right-click on the 'preview' on your pictures on the gallery, not on the film page. Have fun :)
Jessica
I've always used tineye.com for this, but information technology'due south prissy to know there is another selection that might catch things the other missed. I've always watermarked my photos, but it'due south easy to crop those out anymore.
Jennifer
How would you do this if you have right click disabled on your blog. Is there some other way to get the file location or URL?
Caitlin
PS. The poser/thief has taken this woman'due south photo and created a fake FB page likewise. I turned it in equally a fake just it's still up.
I accept a MAC if that helps you to answer. And I'grand not very computer savvy. Thank you so much. I can't believe I fell for such a brutal and deceitful ploy. Embarrassed is all I can say.
Caitlin
julia
Hello Caitlin, Just read your comments & my heart sank… mainly because i am trying to get google reverse prototype to work for me on my mac & ipad. Tineye works for me but i'm needing more than results! I am trying to learn if I accept been catfished once over again!! I take met way too many fakes as you describe. Tin you lot share the fake FB profile proper noun?
thanks, julia
Caitlin
Amanda and Kevin, Can you assistance? Photos were sent to me (we met on an online dating site) and turns out the person on the site is pretending to be this woman. It'south actually a human posing as her. He has sent some pics that I highly doubt she would want floating around (not sure how she feels almost not-heterosexuality merely it'due south a lesbian dating site). The poser is sucking a lot of women in for sure.
Is at that place a mode to take the photos and effort and learn who she is so 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 aid. Caitlin
Jouhaina
I'm number 112 in your comments, and information technology's just Bright ! Thanks
ada
Wow! Smashing tutorial, thanks!!!
malaysia
how do yous do this on windows 8 for facebook ?
Michelle King
Very cool! I just found a bookmark I had made in May that people have pinned on Pinterest. I'm glad I had something people idea was fun and/or useful :)
Alana (@RamblinGarden)
I just constitute this through Pinterest – THANK YOU! I had the experience of several of my photos (pinned from my weblog) catastrophe up on Pinterest weight lost "spam" sites – and at least one(which was not related at all to porn) on a board I would narrate as soft porn with a weight loss bulletin. Disgusting! Cheers a third fourth dimension!
Ale
This is awesome, so useful! Thank 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 terminate them.
Abby
Ack. I can't BELIEVE how many people take stolen my photos. I come across above that someone has given an fifty-fifty easier way to track down thieves. Anyone know of a program that alerts you lot if an image is republished?
Suzan
I tried this with a photo I know for a fact was taken and put as someone's Facebook contour photo. It simply showed the link to my blog, non to the Facebook page.
Valerie
Great niggling trick! I kind if enjoy seeing my photos on tumblr sites. :)
Kim - Liv Life
Excellent info!! The first one I put in brought upwardly my photograph and my recipe on someone else's site with a fleck "pivot it" button over the top of MY photo on THEIR site. Ugh!!!
Enid
Wow, thank you for sharing! I tried this and constitute someone using my pictures to advertise for their business! Yikes!
Naomi
Y'all could also drag the image from your blog , pc, mac drag and drop the image in Google Images search and it will do the very aforementioned thing. You'll become the aforementioned results. :-)
Sam Rk
thank you and then much for this! very helpful !
Dana @dbuenovida
Thank you for such a helpful post Amanda!!
aida mollenkamp
Such a key tip, Amanda. Thank you for sharing!
Jenn @therebelchick
I had no idea how to do this, thanks then much! I know someone has taken photos from my site but now I actually run across what they are doing with them!
theurbanbaker
This could get my new obsession. I am not sure if I should be thanking you or blasphemous you! :)
Jessica Kent
Every time I see something that I know is from your site (which I seem to accept memorized because I've been a regular reader for so long) or other blogs I frequent on Pinterest or anywhere else, I make sure to "comment" who should get the credit. : )
Lately I've been seeing your t-shirt scarf pop up a lot.
Brandon
Yous tin go to Google Images at http://images.google.com and click the footling camera on the correct side of the search box. Then you can paste your URL or even upload your ain epitome there.
Heather D.
Give thanks Yous Amanda for posting this tutorial! Afterwards following it I plant two of my images posted on two unlike sites. :( One cropped it and posted it equally a gratis wallpaper download. I can't find an owner to the website, and then I accept no 1 to email :( I tried posting in the comments section simply it's still "awaiting moderation" GRRR!!! The other one I constitute an electronic mail for and sent them a bulletin to remove my image. We'll see how that goes…
Deanna
Super helpful tutorial! I merely establish one if your pics on pinterest too, and came over to send it to you, just I don't see any contact info for you – help! Practice I just need better glasses?? :)
lawyerlyn
thanks for this very neat and useful tip!
Gina
This is awesome. I have my blog right 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 try it on my blog- I tried it here to see it in action- only I didn't have to re-create the image & upload. When I correct clicked- it gave me the option in the drop down to just search image in Google. Which then gave me the same page you showed with the results. I will try to use that other tip someone left well-nigh dragging the image to the search bar to test it that way. Although I also disabled left click on my images then I may have to become to my web albums to endeavor this out.
Heather
Wow. Super-absurd tip! Institute you via Pinterest. Looking forrard to following y'all! :)
Nilsa @ SoMi Speaks
Interesting weblog post on the reverse paradigm search. And then, here'south a one that's stumped me: I've put pretty strict restrictions on my online photos (no right clicking to re-create on my blog, Flickr and Facebook). However, that doesn't stop someone from using my imaging (screen shots circumvent that pretty easily, that'southward why I've started watermarking my images). Anyway, I wonder if in that location's a mode to search images whose URLs are unsearchable???
jer porcaro
Thanks for the smashing tutorial. Information technology was uncomplicated to follow and easy to attain! Love your stuff!
Jeri
Christina Chief
Hmmm I retrieve I may exist completely computer impaired. I did what y'all said for safari users, "Safari users, right click on the paradigm and select Copy Image Address." And still no such luck… it's not providing me with an advisable image link.
Whatsoever suggestions?
Go Kid Yourself
OMG!! I didn't even know this could be done!! Thanx and then much for posting this! I merely contrary-searched a pic from my most popular post and found it LOTS of places… including a news aqueduct in Fayetteville Arkansas where they broadcasted information technology on their morn news, hahaha! Thanx once more… new follower hither!
kelley @ Miss Information
Thank yous for this! I go along hearing about these sites that steal you stuff and repost it and then this will be helpful! I would honey for you to come share it on I Freakin did it Fridays @ Miss Information
Becky M
Great info, thanks for sharing. Hope it'south okay, I pinned this to remember in the future!
Kristina Vanni
This is great. Super helpful. So interesting to run across where your photos finish up.
Emerge
Who knew? Cheers for this informative post.
I hate the idea of watermarking photos, but I wonder if that'southward what everyone should be doing (in tiny impress)–with link to original website? What do you think?
Melissa @ Bless This Mess
So absurd! I thought I was a nobody but low and behold my jazz is all over the place. I'll take that equally a compliment! Cheers…
Lynna
This is crawly! Thank y'all for sharing ~
Julie
How-do-you-do Amanda! Thanks for the helpful hint. I tried it on several of my photos but got this message in Google: The image is also big, or the network connexion is too irksome to download it.
Any ideas?
Jude Boudreaux
Thanks for the great commodity, and so glad my friend RT'd you on Twitter! I've got a few images that sometimes pop up in my google analytics traffic results, and I'd been thinking I should cheque effectually to make certain they're not being used anywhere else. Thanks and then much!
Carrie @ poet in the pantry
Thanks for the tip! I recently discovered photos posted on cooking-pics.com without credit or link backs, so this is very advisable timing.
Kiersten @ Oh My Veggies
Cheers for the tutorial–this much much easier than I idea! I normally just rely on Google Alerts and pingbacks to find stolen content, but I really need to kickoff doing this likewise.
Jill
Thank you so much for this! I institute out that one of my photos was being used by a sausage visitor with a completely different recipe.
Beth R.
Hey Amanda! I saw your before an later pictures on pinterest supporting a weightloss program. I clicked on information technology because I thought it was something from your site. I reported information technology, but you might want to keep your optics out for it!!
Amanda
Thank you then much for letting me know, Beth! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I end upwardly spending a couple hours every night combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them. I usually study about 150 pins per dark! Crazy, isn't it?? If y'all e'er see 1, just send me the URL and I will report it. :)
Heather Christo
Oh my- that is pretty crazy!!! I will have to try this. Thank you!
Samantha @ BakedfromaBox
Hey Amanda, cheers for the tutorial! I take constitute a huge number of tumblr pages that accept copied my photos/recipe post word for discussion with no source and have sent an "inquire me annihilation" message many times to remove/source the work, merely to no avail! Whatever tips for tumblr photo stealing?? Many cheers :)
Hannah Margaret
Ohhh man. I am now going to want to check my photos. This is a great tool, thank you a one thousand thousand. xoxo
Brooke
You stone!! Give thanks you then much.
Katie P
You always accept the best tricks and tips! Thank you!! Sadly, I couldn't find any of my pictures anywhere else… I guess that'southward a adept thing, though mayhap information technology only means I'm unpopular? HA! :)
Katie
This is a smashing tutorial! Cheers so much! I've been wondering how to do something similar this, with all of the stolen post drama I've been hearing about. Thanks again!
Claire
very cool, i never knew about this. it helps then much, esp as we just bought our very kickoff professional camera and we will be trying to postal service only our own photos now. thanks!
Heather O.
Not bad tip, cheers! To those using Google Chrome, I chose "copy paradigm URL" and and then paste that into a google search. :)
kelly @ sass & veracity
Thanks for the reminder on this — I haven't done information technology in a while then spent some time with it this forenoon. Most of what I discovered for ane popular photo from the archives is not linked to my site in any mode. Figures.
Great tutorial every bit always!
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Great idea. Even so I use Goggle Chrome and I don't have that option when I right click. What should I look for using Chrome when I right click? Sam
Amanda
In Chrome I see the pick to Re-create Image URL.
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Amanda, thanks for the help with Chrome. I discovered that if a blogger has a blog scroll with your web log listed in their sidebar that shows an prototype along with a link, yous'll observe it when you search every bit suggested. Sam
Calli
Thank you for sharing this useful tip! I checked just ane photo from my blog to find several people who had stolen a whole tutorial from my site… with no link backs or credit given. Information technology was a little discouraging and at the same time very empowering!
Kim - Liv Life
Thank you! I tried information technology on a number of shots and it was fascinating to see how far they have traveled. On the few I checked information technology was all higher up board, merely volition be interesting to continue tabs on things.
Joan Nova
Oh, this is a good fashion to lose oneself for a couple of hours! :)
Dear your tutorials!
Rhonda
That is absurd to know! I swear…I larn something new every single 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
Thanks so much for this info, Amanda! I am near agape to do a search every bit I know many people take and use my photos without permission. It is distressing that others feel the need to pass off other'due south piece of work equally their own. :( I hate watermarking my photos then I gauge that is part of the problem. This tip will help me weed out the worst photograph stealing offenders.
marla
This is Crawly and then helpful Amanda ~ gonna play effectually with this now!
LARY@ Inspiration Nook
This is amazing. I knew some of my photos had gone viral on Pinterest but had no idea some take been used on other blogs that much. Great tip! Cheers Amanda! :)
Amanda
Your site is then cute! I tin can run into why your photos are going viral! :)
Natasha
wow cheers for this smashing tip! never knew you could do this, going to give information technology a try now and see what i observe
Kristen
I never worry too much about this because I merely take found it's non really worth my fourth dimension, however, you make it look so much easier than any other route I've tried. Smart! Thanks for sharing!
Alysa (InspiredRD)
Thank you for this!!! I simply plant a photo of mine on a magazine website that was posted back in December of 2010. They pulled the photograph off of ane of my Tasty Kitchen recipes. What practice I exercise at present? Demand they remove it? Ask for payment? Not sure how to become almost this. Thanks!
Christina Principal
Hi there! I would love to endeavor this, simply I have a Safari web browser and neither of your copy epitome location techniques work. Any help?
Thank you!
Amanda
Safari users, right click on the epitome and select Re-create Epitome Accost.
erin
i use safari, take a blogger blog with my photos bankroll upward to picasa and this doesn't piece of work for me either. :(
Deliciously Organic
Great tip Amanda. Thanks!
Shaina
I dear this tutorial! Definitely helpful to see who is talking nigh yous or what you're talking about.
Melanie @ Whimsical Creations
So cool!! Thanks!
Delishhh
Great tip! Give thanks you for sharing this!
Sandy
What a great tip! Thanks!
Cora
Thank y'all Amanda! I cruel in dear with your site a long fourth dimension agone because of post like this, recipes, and your fonts, non because you became popular and have been sent traveling all over the world and post about trips and pushing products on your readers. It is very refreshing to accept some tutorials and fonts back from you then I am motivated to keep reading! This was a very helpful tutorial also.
Miss Kitty
Thanks so 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 fiddling web log I know I demand to at to the lowest degree watermark my photos. I haven't constitute a "painless" way to exercise it without uploading/downloading each photograph to a photograph editing site.
Melissa @ Bless This Mess
Miss Kitty- do yous photoshop at all? There is an easy fashion to make a stamp in PS and so that y'all can just postage on your watermark while editing before uploading. Information technology'southward a great little trick!
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert
Thank you, thanks, thank you. I have found one of my photos is being used numerous places. I can'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
Cheers 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 information technology as their own! Very bummed. Have'nt fifty-fifty checked other photos. Any advice? I think I have to get back and commencement watermarking.
Maria
Thank you for sharing! I had no idea yous could do this!
Helene
Thanks! I used information technology today and you are right, some of my pics are on Pinterest. Actually similar your tips and tutorials.
TidyMom
ooooh, I do that also!!! neat tip to share Amanda!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles
Cool. Cheers, Amanda!
Foodiewife
I dearest your tutorials. Thank you lot so much.
JulieD
This is awesome. Thank you lot!!! :)
Teri Dingler
Nosotros randomly discoverred someone "grabbed" my facebook background photo I had taken on my Alaskan cruise from my balcony and posted and then put on his facebook as his background! I gauge he thought information technology was lovely!!! I practise not re-mail anything unless it has a "pin it" button on information technology as I believe that these belong to the person who posts it unless they have given permission past the "pivot it" button.
Anele @ Success Along the Weigh
I don't know why but I'one thousand scared to do this! LOL
shelly (cookies and cups)
Absurd trick! Dear all your bloggy tutorials!
janet tobler
how exercise you upload a photo to the internet and take hold of the url? practise y'all have a tutorial for that?
thanks you and then much
Amanda
If you don't take a blog and tin't apply the tutorial above (which shows you how to get the URL from a photo on your blog), you can use a site like Photobucket.com to upload a photo and become the URL.
Anne
Hi Amanda. FYI, at that place is a pinterest mail out at that place (wish I had marked it just I didn't) that uses your before and after weight loss pics and when you click on it it goes to some weight loss site. Didn't await like annihilation I accept seen y'all mention, then you lot might want to search pinterest if yous can.
Amanda
Thanks then much for letting me know, Anne! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I end upward spending a couple hours every night combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them to Pinterest. I usually report about 150 pins per night! Crazy, isn't information technology?? If you ever see one, simply ship me the URL and I will report it. :)
Amanda Dawn
Thanks Amanda! Information technology'south e'er fun learning something new, geeky, and simple! To recall, this has been here all along. You're so clever. :)
cynthia y
You lot can actually only click the photo whether its on a web folio or on your desktop and drag it to the Google search box to do the same thing. I just learned this trick a few months ago and its astonishing
Jamie
Awesome tip! Thanks Cynthia – and Amanda! The drag and drop feature is way meliorate than all that cut and pasting.
Kim @ In Our Write Minds
I was and so excited virtually the elevate-and-drop choice! I tried it in IE and Chrome, but cypher happened. Am I missing a footstep?
Amanda
Yeah, I'm not sure how authentic 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 simply manner I look up images and take never had an issue. I exercise use Google Chrome mostly and never on a MAC. Simply I think I have gotten to work on IE and FireFox. I volition attempt to figure information technology out for ya.
Willow
Cheers for the swell tip!
Briana
Wow. This is awesome! Then helpful. Thanks for sharing!
Wow – extremely cool, helpful and I could take some fun playing around with this!
Candice
You ever mail service such useful tips Amanda, thank you 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 photograph? Or will it only work if they re-post the photo with exactly the same name/URL that it originally came with when you posted it – I hope that makes sense?
Amanda
Great question Candice! Yep, it will definitely work if the photograph has been renamed — It will fifty-fifty piece of work if the photo has been cropped, resized or even had pocket-sized changes fabricated to information technology like lightened or darkened also.
Candice
That is amazing! Thank you again for this really cool info :o)
Michele
I wanted to detect out if this guy was using a fake photo to try and friend me on facebook and then I took one of his images. It just so happens he doesn't have a shirt on. I do the reverse paradigm search and upwardly comes the word "nipple" and definitions and other ways I can photos with a nipple!!! seriously! Whatsoever suggestions
Adam
Cheers so much for the tutorial!
EarthAngelle
How about is this the same process searching for private photos that landed in the wrong easily
Ajit kumar sah
i try to wait some special this version .
Riya
I think I got all the data I was looking for. Thanks for this wonderful piece of article.
Amber
Hello Kevin and Amanda,
I have kind of a special situation lol. I submitted a few documents to an arrangement for a program I was in. They are now saying that I never submitted one of the documents only I'm positive I did. How do I evidence that I did? I yet have my internet history and see the appointment I submitted everything only want to have proof that the document was submitted to them through their website.
I truly hope you can help me as this has caused me a major issue in retrieving something from them. ?
Connie
Ugh! I am just sick. I simply took my most popular post and found that someone stole the picture and photoshopped ane of the colors in the picture and called it there own! It was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped picture. I lost all of that traffic. Thank you so much for posting this, I'll be closer tabs on my intellectual property!
ioan
I'm simply curious if this trick works for Instagram.
Nina
Very helpful. Thank you! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Thanks! :)
Nina
Very helpful. Thank yous!!! :)
Lorrie Walker
Brilliant! Thanks for this handy information.
Lilly Oliver
I tried this for. Pictures off of my twitter merely google did not suggest taht the pictures were being used on my twitter. Why?
Ramesh
Dear Kevin,
This is the post I waited for long fourth dimension. I had some pics which were not uploaded to internet. And some of that pics were accessed by another else without my permission. Now I need to cheque whether that pics are uploaded to net. How tin I practise it. All I have is my pics alone and it does not have any image url.
North. Lynn Wilson
Someone has uploaded my picture from a phone or computer and put nasty comments under my name.
Mich
Is it working on facebook pictures? thanks :)
Samantha
Hello Amanda,
I'one thousand just curious if this trick works for Instagram. I have recently opened a page to share my photography and hopefully make a name for myself a bit. But I just plant out that people can "steal" your photos. I'm and so disappointed. I would like to know if anyone has done this so far. I am going to shut my account. Just, do you know how to discover out if someone has washed this already? Give thanks you tons!
Sincerely,
Samantha
John Polk
Maybe this is silly but is that a special font at the very pinnacle that looks like castor on canvas? That looks so cool and grabs attention. Is that a brush or font or what? Loved your article.
Bryan
Interesting and so easy to check, I had been told a while agone it could be washed so thanks for the piece of cake lesson,
Right now I'one thousand off to write a alphabetic character to the guardian i found 11 of their web pages using 1 of mine images after i said they couldn't, this'll be fun :-)
Aires
Thanks for sharing this 1. It helps me alot to trace the site that has the same kind of pictures in my own site.
Apollo
I think it'due south not working on Facebook ..
hoesim
Proficient to know : ) However, if someone copy your image url and edited information technology in Pixlr.com.
Save information technology equally their own re-create. It is rather hard to trace. I establish my image was copy and reused when i lookup in google image under the same Keyword.
Susanna
Hi! Thank yous for the useful tutorial, only I was wondering if information technology would work on Facebook pictures. Because I sent my picture taken from facebook to my ex-friend on kik a while ago before we argued, and I think she reposted information technology in some website, only I'1000 not sure. I'k worried that she might post it on porn websites etc. I tried to do this to find my pictures only information technology didn't piece of work. So my question is : Does that fox works on Facebook picture ? Or if you lot take whatsoever other useful tricks, please let me know. I actually Actually demand your help. Give thanks yous!
Faisal
i want identify the picture of Faisal
shad219
Thank you for the tip! Ilike the huse in the pic as well!
Sammi @Sammi Sunshine
Hi Amanda, I have tried this various means, and it won't work for me! At all!
Sammi at Sammi Sunshine- A Food Blog
Jen
Much easier -quicker fashion to search is: in Chrome, right click on any epitome and choose an choice 'Search google for this image' from the drop downwardly menu. Takes a second :) No need for URL.
danielle
pretty crawly-thank u!
Lynne Mikolajczak
I have had a person emailing me since November. 19th, 2013. Saying some terrible things about my hubby and I. She has sent a photo. The first one was totally dissimilar than the last. The final i she claimed is really her, how can I find out who this person is by the photograph?
Sonja Bailey
I take a picture that I am wanting to notice 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 to a scam merely this one I really call back I know this person and need to let them know if their pic is existence used… it is a dating fraud and scamming money
Carrie
Is there any manner to practice this on a smartphone? And where on the internet are we. supposed to upload the pictures if you're trying to find where a picture show came from either on your smartphone or the computer.. besides is the image url and image location different? Cheers.
Jessica
Would this piece of work for Facebook photos too or only pictures on blogs? I approximate if you were able to practise it on Facebook, it would definitely have to be done on a reckoner not a jail cell telephone. I see thedrag and drib method on Catfish all the time but it'due south never worked for me!
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Siobhan
Thanks for this, I've shared information technology with a friend who runs a lifestyle weblog and finds her images popping upwardly *everywhere*. No one uses mine… they are besides, ahem, rustic and naive in way :-)
@PamelaMKramer - A Renaissance Adult female
In Chrome it'southward a right click and in that location is already an selection to search. I weblog about Crossfit but I don't consider myself a Crossfit blogger. It'southward 1 of my highest traffic posts so I took the prototype from a Paleo before and subsequently challenge that I did and sure enough! Information technology'due south on about iii other sites. I only need to contact one of them to give me proper credit. wow!
Jessica
Wow–although I appreciate this tutorial, I'm totally creeped out past the number of people stealing my photos (photos that include my immature son). I'm now wondering if in that location is some code I can identify on my web log to help prevent it. :(
Carol
So what practice y'all do if you find ane that doesn't link back to you?
I have found i of my pictures, and information technology doesn't link back to my blog. Its funny that the post was dated April 2008, I didn't exercise my mail service until March 2012.. guess she didn't like her ain photo and replaced information technology with mine! I also have a "content and photos on this site are the sole property of….." on the side bar.
⥠ღ ⥠Carol
Whitfields Home In The County
divita
Beloved amanda,
I accept a few pictures of a daughter saved in my computer. Plain downloaded from Facebook.I haven't used the moving-picture show anywhere. Merely if a upload that picture on my blog. And if I follow the instructions given past you lot will I go to know where is it on Facebook. !
I desperately desire to know who that moving-picture show belongs to.please help.
Elissa Field
Thanks for this. I had stored link to your post on my Pinterest… and had it to refer back to when a question well-nigh a picture came upwards this week. Information technology's simple, but interesting how much information can be gathered.
Surabhi
I tried this but it is not working for me.
Rebecca
You have no thought how grateful I am that you lot took the time to post this and share. I found someone who was using one of my art pieces on his weblog without my permission and without credit. This is a spectacular manner to keep tabs on my piece of work! Thank you and so much!
-Rebecca
Bryan
This is a bang-up resource. I belong to a portfolio site where lots of photographers and artists mutter of their stuff beingness posted elsewhere. Nigh of it is harmless, but occasionally somebody finds their fine art in a Samsung ad or some such. A mailing list I subscribe to shared a resource like to this but requested that list subscribers continue it to themselves for the fourth dimension being, which was bugging me. Now I'g off the claw. :-D
Robert Connor
What a great tip and very nice site we dearest i!
Google
Actually another great way is to directly upload that images to google images search and and then expect for similar images which are to your. Google images search is pretty powerful and volition discover all those images which look similar without warring about the naming and Y'all will get all the list of images and places where they are beingness hosted.
Matt
I ever used tineye in the past but this seems to work better…thanks for this!
shananne
Hullo,
but wondering if i can also employ facebook'due south photograph url?
thanks
Carth Glouie Pandan
Dear Amanda, I met someone from facebook and his name there was Ronnie Powell. He had many pics in FB same all faces. We've been chatmates for how many months. I think four months. And everytime I ask him to let me encounter him on cam, he refuses me. Ane time, they went to Paris together with his dad. that was he said to me, and I dont know if he was true or was only lying. So by next day, I receive a bulletin from his IM that he encounter accident goin dorsum from Paris to UK. Then, the one who messaged me was his cousin named Andrew, and when he allow me saw him on cam, I was taken aback becuz he looked similar a Pakistani and not similarly like with the guy on the pic. I know they are not bro but even cousins accept still similar faces. I blocked him and unblocked him again. Subsequently few weeks he came dorsum and said that why he blocked me and answer on his letters. I told him that he was non the guy on the pic and he insisted that it was him, but i all the same accept a doubt. And so, how would I know who is the guy on the motion picture? will i able to know him – the existent name of the guy on the pic EVEN IF IT WAS TAKEN FROM FB using ur trick and will i able to know where that stupid wannabe stole that picture that he used to pretend? Please aid me…
Robert Connor
Some slap-up info – we await forward to reading more! Have a great day on purpose.
Marinos
Just go to http://images.google.com and elevate-driblet any photo there. either from your computer or from another website. (open your website on 1 tab and google images on some other tab. drag the photograph from your website to the google images tab on top of your browser. it will then go to google images. driblet the photo in the search box)
Bask!
Nazihah Ismail
Nifty post! Never knew I tin track them. Thanks!! :D
Krystina Rotolo
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Taylor
Cheers so much for this! It will be very handy :)
Rosey
What a great tip, I'm going to get attempt it. Visiting today from Let'due south Get Social Dominicus.
Brenda @ChattingOverChocolate.blogspot.com
WOW! Thanks, Amanda!! I cannot believe how simple this is! Cheers for the very helpful and piece of cake-to-understand tutorial! Much appreciated ;)
Promise you enjoy a fabulous weekend! :)
zee
Thanks for the dandy tip. I just saw information technology and found another way to practise it. I have not read the 100+ comments, so I don't know if someone has already posted it. Anyway, here'due south how…
Become to google.com –>
On the header (of You+, Search, Images… ) click on "Images" –>
At the end of the search field, in that location is a camera icon, click on it. (when you lot hover over it, information technology will say "search past paradigm") –>
You can either "Paste paradigm URL" or click on "Upload an image". Click on upload an image if you have no URL, or if you want a quick way of searching images you accept on your PC. –>
Y'all can now scan and select your image, or simply elevate an paradigm 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 practice" for this Saturday!!:) cheers for sharing!!!
Addicted to Recipes
Thank you for sharing this postal service, I just did a random check of some photos and found a website that has copied every single 1 of my recipes and photos…ugh!
Kim P
Hi Amanda.
I have IE and tried searching a few of my blog tutorial pictures using your instructions above. I can non become any results from any of my attempts. It does non fifty-fifty find where I posted my own pictures to my own blog, FB, Twitter, or Pintrest posts. I'g not certain what I'm doing wrong.
Jenny
i was agape to read this and so observe out people were stealing my pictures but i didn't find anything so i experience better now :P
Cher'ley
All I get is the epitome with no information. I saw a photo I wanted to apply in my ebook. It was sent equally a Valentine salutation and information technology is so cute (Two horses hugging), but I don't know how to find out who owns it and then I can get permission to use it. Thank you.
Matt
Unfortunately this won't work in 99% of cases of image theft. This will simply work if the person has shared your image to their blog or website. If they correct clicked and saved the image similar 99% of people do, then upload the epitome this doesn't work. So it's basically useless.
Caitlin
Julia, I would feel more comfy discussing further with yous but over some individual
measure such every bit email. I'm not fifty-fifty sure I understand this site hither. To my knowledge neither Kevin or Amanda ever responded to me.
Thanks,
Caitlin
Tricia
Ugh! I am just ill. I just took my most popular postal service and found that someone stole the motion picture and photoshopped one of the colors in the picture and called information technology in that location own! It was a gardening tutorial that is wildly popular on Pinterest…so was the photoshopped moving-picture show. I lost all of that traffic. Give thanks you so much for posting this, I'll exist closer tabs on my intellectual property!
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Hi there, i just wanted to drop you a line to say that i thoroughly enjoyed this particular postal service of yours, I have subscribed to your RSS feeds and have skimmed a few of your posts earlier but this i really stood out for me. I know that I am merely a stranger to you but I figured y'all might appreciate the appreciation Take care and go on blogging.
Salammbö
Dear Amanda, cheers very much for this very useful tip. At present I institute out that a moving-picture show of mine has been used to illustrate the weblog of an escort-girl. ;) THANKS !
Ed
I tried to employ this for my pics on flickr but it doesn't seem to be working. Is there a manner to do this with photos on flickr?
Salammbö
Howdy Ed, I simply spent twenty minutes checking my ain Flickr pictures so I tin can assure you it works. :)
Right-click on the 'preview' on your pictures on the gallery, not on the film page. Have fun :)
Jessica
I've always used tineye.com for this, but information technology'due south prissy to know there is another selection that might catch things the other missed. I've always watermarked my photos, but it'due south easy to crop those out anymore.
Jennifer
How would you do this if you have right click disabled on your blog. Is there some other way to get the file location or URL?
Caitlin
PS. The poser/thief has taken this woman'due south photo and created a fake FB page likewise. I turned it in equally a fake just it's still up.
I accept a MAC if that helps you to answer. And I'grand not very computer savvy.
Thank you so much. I can't believe I fell for such a brutal and deceitful ploy. Embarrassed is all I can say.
Caitlin
julia
Hello Caitlin, Just read your comments & my heart sank… mainly because i am trying to get google reverse prototype to work for me on my mac & ipad. Tineye works for me but i'm needing more than results! I am trying to learn if I accept been catfished once over again!! I take met way too many fakes as you describe. Tin you lot share the fake FB profile proper noun?
thanks, julia
Caitlin
Amanda and Kevin,
Can you assistance? Photos were sent to me (we met on an online dating site) and turns out the person on the site is pretending to be this woman. It'south actually a human posing as her. He has sent some pics that I highly doubt she would want floating around (not sure how she feels almost not-heterosexuality merely it'due south a lesbian dating site). The poser is sucking a lot of women in for sure.
Is at that place a mode to take the photos and effort and learn who she is so 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 aid.
Caitlin
Jouhaina
I'm number 112 in your comments, and information technology's just Bright ! Thanks
ada
Wow! Smashing tutorial, thanks!!!
malaysia
how do yous do this on windows 8 for facebook ?
Michelle King
Very cool! I just found a bookmark I had made in May that people have pinned on Pinterest. I'm glad I had something people idea was fun and/or useful :)
Alana (@RamblinGarden)
I just constitute this through Pinterest – THANK YOU! I had the experience of several of my photos (pinned from my weblog) catastrophe up on Pinterest weight lost "spam" sites – and at least one(which was not related at all to porn) on a board I would narrate as soft porn with a weight loss bulletin. Disgusting! Cheers a third fourth dimension!
Ale
This is awesome, so useful! Thank 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 terminate them.
Abby
Ack. I can't BELIEVE how many people take stolen my photos. I come across above that someone has given an fifty-fifty easier way to track down thieves. Anyone know of a program that alerts you lot if an image is republished?
Suzan
I tried this with a photo I know for a fact was taken and put as someone's Facebook contour photo. It simply showed the link to my blog, non to the Facebook page.
Valerie
Great niggling trick! I kind if enjoy seeing my photos on tumblr sites. :)
Kim - Liv Life
Excellent info!! The first one I put in brought upwardly my photograph and my recipe on someone else's site with a fleck "pivot it" button over the top of MY photo on THEIR site. Ugh!!!
Enid
Wow, thank you for sharing! I tried this and constitute someone using my pictures to advertise for their business! Yikes!
Naomi
Y'all could also drag the image from your blog , pc, mac drag and drop the image in Google Images search and it will do the very aforementioned thing. You'll become the aforementioned results. :-)
Sam Rk
thank you and then much for this! very helpful !
Dana @dbuenovida
Thank you for such a helpful post Amanda!!
aida mollenkamp
Such a key tip, Amanda. Thank you for sharing!
Jenn @therebelchick
I had no idea how to do this, thanks then much! I know someone has taken photos from my site but now I actually run across what they are doing with them!
theurbanbaker
This could get my new obsession. I am not sure if I should be thanking you or blasphemous you! :)
Jessica Kent
Every time I see something that I know is from your site (which I seem to accept memorized because I've been a regular reader for so long) or other blogs I frequent on Pinterest or anywhere else, I make sure to "comment" who should get the credit. : )
Lately I've been seeing your t-shirt scarf pop up a lot.
Brandon
Yous tin go to Google Images at http://images.google.com and click the footling camera on the correct side of the search box. Then you can paste your URL or even upload your ain epitome there.
Heather D.
Give thanks Yous Amanda for posting this tutorial! Afterwards following it I plant two of my images posted on two unlike sites. :( One cropped it and posted it equally a gratis wallpaper download. I can't find an owner to the website, and then I accept no 1 to email :( I tried posting in the comments section simply it's still "awaiting moderation" GRRR!!! The other one I constitute an electronic mail for and sent them a bulletin to remove my image. We'll see how that goes…
Deanna
Super helpful tutorial! I merely establish one if your pics on pinterest too, and came over to send it to you, just I don't see any contact info for you – help! Practice I just need better glasses?? :)
lawyerlyn
thanks for this very neat and useful tip!
Gina
This is awesome. I have my blog right 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 try it on my blog- I tried it here to see it in action- only I didn't have to re-create the image & upload. When I correct clicked- it gave me the option in the drop down to just search image in Google. Which then gave me the same page you showed with the results. I will try to use that other tip someone left well-nigh dragging the image to the search bar to test it that way. Although I also disabled left click on my images then I may have to become to my web albums to endeavor this out.
Heather
Wow. Super-absurd tip! Institute you via Pinterest. Looking forrard to following y'all! :)
Nilsa @ SoMi Speaks
Interesting weblog post on the reverse paradigm search. And then, here'south a one that's stumped me: I've put pretty strict restrictions on my online photos (no right clicking to re-create on my blog, Flickr and Facebook). However, that doesn't stop someone from using my imaging (screen shots circumvent that pretty easily, that'southward why I've started watermarking my images). Anyway, I wonder if in that location's a mode to search images whose URLs are unsearchable???
jer porcaro
Thanks for the smashing tutorial. Information technology was uncomplicated to follow and easy to attain!
Love your stuff!
Jeri
Christina Chief
Hmmm I retrieve I may exist completely computer impaired. I did what y'all said for safari users, "Safari users, right click on the paradigm and select Copy Image Address." And still no such luck… it's not providing me with an advisable image link.
Whatsoever suggestions?
Go Kid Yourself
OMG!! I didn't even know this could be done!! Thanx and then much for posting this!
I merely contrary-searched a pic from my most popular post and found it LOTS of places… including a news aqueduct in Fayetteville Arkansas where they broadcasted information technology on their morn news, hahaha!
Thanx once more… new follower hither!
kelley @ Miss Information
Thank yous for this! I go along hearing about these sites that steal you stuff and repost it and then this will be helpful! I would honey for you to come share it on I Freakin did it Fridays @ Miss Information
Becky M
Great info, thanks for sharing. Hope it'south okay, I pinned this to remember in the future!
Kristina Vanni
This is great. Super helpful. So interesting to run across where your photos finish up.
Emerge
Who knew? Cheers for this informative post.
I hate the idea of watermarking photos, but I wonder if that'southward what everyone should be doing (in tiny impress)–with link to original website? What do you think?
Melissa @ Bless This Mess
So absurd! I thought I was a nobody but low and behold my jazz is all over the place. I'll take that equally a compliment! Cheers…
Lynna
This is crawly! Thank y'all for sharing ~
Julie
How-do-you-do Amanda! Thanks for the helpful hint. I tried it on several of my photos but got this message in Google: The image is also big, or the network connexion is too irksome to download it.
Any ideas?
Jude Boudreaux
Thanks for the great commodity, and so glad my friend RT'd you on Twitter! I've got a few images that sometimes pop up in my google analytics traffic results, and I'd been thinking I should cheque effectually to make certain they're not being used anywhere else. Thanks and then much!
Carrie @ poet in the pantry
Thanks for the tip! I recently discovered photos posted on cooking-pics.com without credit or link backs, so this is very advisable timing.
Kiersten @ Oh My Veggies
Cheers for the tutorial–this much much easier than I idea! I normally just rely on Google Alerts and pingbacks to find stolen content, but I really need to kickoff doing this likewise.
Jill
Thank you so much for this! I institute out that one of my photos was being used by a sausage visitor with a completely different recipe.
Beth R.
Hey Amanda! I saw your before an later pictures on pinterest supporting a weightloss program. I clicked on information technology because I thought it was something from your site. I reported information technology, but you might want to keep your optics out for it!!
Amanda
Thank you then much for letting me know, Beth! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I end upwardly spending a couple hours every night combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them. I usually study about 150 pins per dark! Crazy, isn't it?? If y'all e'er see 1, just send me the URL and I will report it. :)
Heather Christo
Oh my- that is pretty crazy!!! I will have to try this. Thank you!
Samantha @ BakedfromaBox
Hey Amanda, cheers for the tutorial! I take constitute a huge number of tumblr pages that accept copied my photos/recipe post word for discussion with no source and have sent an "inquire me annihilation" message many times to remove/source the work, merely to no avail! Whatever tips for tumblr photo stealing??
Many cheers :)
Hannah Margaret
Ohhh man. I am now going to want to check my photos. This is a great tool, thank you a one thousand thousand. xoxo
Brooke
You stone!! Give thanks you then much.
Katie P
You always accept the best tricks and tips! Thank you!! Sadly, I couldn't find any of my pictures anywhere else… I guess that'southward a adept thing, though mayhap information technology only means I'm unpopular? HA! :)
Katie
This is a smashing tutorial! Cheers so much! I've been wondering how to do something similar this, with all of the stolen post drama I've been hearing about. Thanks again!
Claire
very cool, i never knew about this. it helps then much, esp as we just bought our very kickoff professional camera and we will be trying to postal service only our own photos now. thanks!
Heather O.
Not bad tip, cheers! To those using Google Chrome, I chose "copy paradigm URL" and and then paste that into a google search. :)
kelly @ sass & veracity
Thanks for the reminder on this — I haven't done information technology in a while then spent some time with it this forenoon. Most of what I discovered for ane popular photo from the archives is not linked to my site in any mode. Figures.
Great tutorial every bit always!
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Great idea. Even so I use Goggle Chrome and I don't have that option when I right click. What should I look for using Chrome when I right click?
Sam
Amanda
In Chrome I see the pick to Re-create Image URL.
Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen
Amanda, thanks for the help with Chrome. I discovered that if a blogger has a blog scroll with your web log listed in their sidebar that shows an prototype along with a link, yous'll observe it when you search every bit suggested.
Sam
Calli
Thank you for sharing this useful tip! I checked just ane photo from my blog to find several people who had stolen a whole tutorial from my site… with no link backs or credit given. Information technology was a little discouraging and at the same time very empowering!
Kim - Liv Life
Thank you! I tried information technology on a number of shots and it was fascinating to see how far they have traveled. On the few I checked information technology was all higher up board, merely volition be interesting to continue tabs on things.
Joan Nova
Oh, this is a good fashion to lose oneself for a couple of hours! :)
Dear your tutorials!
Rhonda
That is absurd to know! I swear…I larn something new every single 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
Thanks so much for this info, Amanda! I am near agape to do a search every bit I know many people take and use my photos without permission. It is distressing that others feel the need to pass off other'due south piece of work equally their own. :( I hate watermarking my photos then I gauge that is part of the problem. This tip will help me weed out the worst photograph stealing offenders.
marla
This is Crawly and then helpful Amanda ~ gonna play effectually with this now!
LARY@ Inspiration Nook
This is amazing. I knew some of my photos had gone viral on Pinterest but had no idea some take been used on other blogs that much. Great tip! Cheers Amanda! :)
Amanda
Your site is then cute! I tin can run into why your photos are going viral! :)
Natasha
wow cheers for this smashing tip! never knew you could do this, going to give information technology a try now and see what i observe
Kristen
I never worry too much about this because I merely take found it's non really worth my fourth dimension, however, you make it look so much easier than any other route I've tried. Smart! Thanks for sharing!
Alysa (InspiredRD)
Thank you for this!!! I simply plant a photo of mine on a magazine website that was posted back in December of 2010. They pulled the photograph off of ane of my Tasty Kitchen recipes. What practice I exercise at present? Demand they remove it? Ask for payment? Not sure how to become almost this. Thanks!
Christina Principal
Hi there! I would love to endeavor this, simply I have a Safari web browser and neither of your copy epitome location techniques work. Any help?
Thank you!
Amanda
Safari users, right click on the epitome and select Re-create Epitome Accost.
erin
i use safari, take a blogger blog with my photos bankroll upward to picasa and this doesn't piece of work for me either. :(
Deliciously Organic
Great tip Amanda. Thanks!
Shaina
I dear this tutorial! Definitely helpful to see who is talking nigh yous or what you're talking about.
Melanie @ Whimsical Creations
So cool!! Thanks!
Delishhh
Great tip! Give thanks you for sharing this!
Sandy
What a great tip! Thanks!
Cora
Thank y'all Amanda! I cruel in dear with your site a long fourth dimension agone because of post like this, recipes, and your fonts, non because you became popular and have been sent traveling all over the world and post about trips and pushing products on your readers. It is very refreshing to accept some tutorials and fonts back from you then I am motivated to keep reading! This was a very helpful tutorial also.
Miss Kitty
Thanks so 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 fiddling web log I know I demand to at to the lowest degree watermark my photos. I haven't constitute a "painless" way to exercise it without uploading/downloading each photograph to a photograph editing site.
Melissa @ Bless This Mess
Miss Kitty- do yous photoshop at all? There is an easy fashion to make a stamp in PS and so that y'all can just postage on your watermark while editing before uploading. Information technology'southward a great little trick!
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert
Thank you, thanks, thank you. I have found one of my photos is being used numerous places. I can'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
merely because she's beettr than you and smarter than you and beettr looking than yous doesnt mean you lot demand to run your mouths like the morons nosotros all know you are. anybody that wants to acquire how to play guitar can acquire something from her.
Urvashee
Cheers 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 information technology as their own! Very bummed. Have'nt fifty-fifty checked other photos. Any advice? I think I have to get back and commencement watermarking.
Maria
Thank you for sharing! I had no idea yous could do this!
Helene
Thanks! I used information technology today and you are right, some of my pics are on Pinterest. Actually similar your tips and tutorials.
TidyMom
ooooh, I do that also!!! neat tip to share Amanda!
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles
Cool. Cheers, Amanda!
Foodiewife
I dearest your tutorials. Thank you lot so much.
JulieD
This is awesome. Thank you lot!!! :)
Teri Dingler
Nosotros randomly discoverred someone "grabbed" my facebook background photo I had taken on my Alaskan cruise from my balcony and posted and then put on his facebook as his background! I gauge he thought information technology was lovely!!! I practise not re-mail anything unless it has a "pin it" button on information technology as I believe that these belong to the person who posts it unless they have given permission past the "pivot it" button.
Anele @ Success Along the Weigh
I don't know why but I'one thousand scared to do this! LOL
shelly (cookies and cups)
Absurd trick! Dear all your bloggy tutorials!
janet tobler
how exercise you upload a photo to the internet and take hold of the url?
practise y'all have a tutorial for that?
thanks you and then much
Amanda
If you don't take a blog and tin't apply the tutorial above (which shows you how to get the URL from a photo on your blog), you can use a site like Photobucket.com to upload a photo and become the URL.
Anne
Hi Amanda. FYI, at that place is a pinterest mail out at that place (wish I had marked it just I didn't) that uses your before and after weight loss pics and when you click on it it goes to some weight loss site. Didn't await like annihilation I accept seen y'all mention, then you lot might want to search pinterest if yous can.
Amanda
Thanks then much for letting me know, Anne! That is exactly what I've been using this tutorial for. I end upward spending a couple hours every night combing through search results and Pinterest posts finding the stolen photos and reporting them to Pinterest. I usually report about 150 pins per night! Crazy, isn't information technology?? If you ever see one, simply ship me the URL and I will report it. :)
Amanda Dawn
Thanks Amanda! Information technology'south e'er fun learning something new, geeky, and simple! To recall, this has been here all along. You're so clever. :)
cynthia y
You lot can actually only click the photo whether its on a web folio or on your desktop and drag it to the Google search box to do the same thing. I just learned this trick a few months ago and its astonishing
Jamie
Awesome tip! Thanks Cynthia – and Amanda! The drag and drop feature is way meliorate than all that cut and pasting.
Kim @ In Our Write Minds
I was and so excited virtually the elevate-and-drop choice! I tried it in IE and Chrome, but cypher happened. Am I missing a footstep?
Amanda
Yeah, I'm not sure how authentic 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 simply manner I look up images and take never had an issue. I exercise use Google Chrome mostly and never on a MAC. Simply I think I have gotten to work on IE and FireFox. I volition attempt to figure information technology out for ya.
Willow
Cheers for the swell tip!
Briana
Wow. This is awesome! Then helpful. Thanks for sharing!
Dora Panariti
That's extremely usuful !!! Thank y'all Amanda! :D
Averie @ Averie Cooks
Wow – extremely cool, helpful and I could take some fun playing around with this!
Candice
You ever mail service such useful tips Amanda, thank you 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 photograph? Or will it only work if they re-post the photo with exactly the same name/URL that it originally came with when you posted it – I hope that makes sense?
Amanda
Great question Candice! Yep, it will definitely work if the photograph has been renamed — It will fifty-fifty piece of work if the photo has been cropped, resized or even had pocket-sized changes fabricated to information technology like lightened or darkened also.
Candice
That is amazing! Thank you again for this really cool info :o)