How to find out if your art got stolen.

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You may ask yourself why i make this journal out of no where, well its actually pretty simple. a account called menaalbsomy123456 watched me today. Like always i looked at the account and deviation of that person (thats what i do if someone watches me) and i noticed that there was uploaded a drawing of mlp. It had a mature content filter on it and i looked at the drawing. everything was fine so there would be no mature tagg be needed. i looked at the other deviations and every drawing was a other style and other signantur.
I used the tachnique shown below to find the original drawing from the latest deviation the person had uploaded.

The Stolen deviation Mlp Play By 0bluse-d92as7s 
And the original one MLP Play

So yeah, the technique below shown works, but now lets continue with the actuall journal, shall we ?^^






Hello friends of the internet. maybe you already noticed but uploading art on the internet is a very great risk.
Our beloved work can get stolen and reauploaded, expectly in times where fast reposting, thanks to pinterest is now possible.

Sure actually pinterest is a great side to research things like references, but its also great for people to reupload your work there and remove the links and credits from it and claim it as they're own.


I now found a way that maybe some of you already know, and which is very easy to do.

I took my Spyro fanart evening lake to search for copys or reposts since its my most popular artpiece i made.
Spyro fanart Evening lake by RehQuQ

Why i Use google image search for it? Google scanse the image and takes all information it needs (like colors and shapes) and it will show you simular pieces.



Step 1:
Download (or take the original file) from your drawing/photo that you want to search if it got stolen/repostet






Step 2:
go to www.google.de/imghp and drag the image into the search bar. You also can use www.tineye.com/ its also a great webside.



Here are the results of google, what it found:
Google Result by RehQuQ

Here is the risult of tinyeye what it found:


Tinyeye Result by RehQuQ





How you can see there was more resutls with google.

You also see links like ''Username's DeviantART Favorits'' that apears if your deviation got favorited by that person so it just apears there in the favorits so don't worrie.
the next you will notice that my image got found on pinterest.

My Image apeared two times on pinterest, and both users didn't removed the link or the credits when they had reposted my artowrk on  pinterest

Pincheast by RehQuQ



How i also montained was that google takes the colors and search for simular pices right? thats the result of it:
Color Pallet by RehQuQ

Now you know how you can find out if your artowkr got repostet.


Now I will show you how to disable the option that people can repost your work in the first place.





Step 1:
Go to the window where you upload your deviantion where you can write the description before it apears in the inbox of your watchers.






Step 2: load eny randome image into it or the option for the reposting option will not apear.






Step 3: Now scroll down to ''Puplishing Options'' 
Options by RehQuQ




And select ''Hide & require login to view'' or just ''hide share buttons'' now the share buttons next to a daviation of your uploaded submissio will be hidden and no one can fast reblog it on tumblr, facebook or what ever side.
Hide by RehQuQ


Step 4:
Now just Save the settings, or in this case ''remamber those settings''
Remamber by RehQuQ







I hope this tutorial helped some of you guys, and yes I know, its a way that some of you already know but some still dosn't.. and remamber! Always watermark your drawings!

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ProMonki's avatar

What if it's a creative writing submission, ever thought of that?