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Digital image an original work - how to check?
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#1 - 2013-10-25 19:48:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
A friend of mine is thinking of hosting an online art contest. An issue, though, is that people could plagiarize. They could get an image file from anywhere on the internet and submit it as their own. For example, the images I see on deviantart don't have any copy restrictions or watermarks.

Any ideas on how to make sure a digital image is an original work, and not copied from somewhere? There must be a way.

(Shameless plug, but it's for your own good: BTW, if you haven't seen it already, check out the EVE fiction contest my alter ego alt is doing. Tell a story and earn a prize! (OOPE guys, you might do well in the humor section)). Smile
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#2 - 2013-10-25 19:54:10 UTC
The easiest way to make sure that an image is fresh and not some stale premade internet garbage is to photoshop a copy of todays newspaper in there. That way we have proof of life...or in Eves case, lack thereof.






Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#3 - 2013-10-25 21:08:52 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
A friend of mine is thinking of hosting an online art contest. An issue, though, is that people could plagiarize. They could get an image file from anywhere on the internet and submit it as their own. For example, the images I see on deviantart don't have any copy restrictions or watermarks.

Any ideas on how to make sure a digital image is an original work, and not copied from somewhere? There must be a way.

(Shameless plug, but it's for your own good: BTW, if you haven't seen it already, check out the EVE fiction contest my alter ego alt is doing. Tell a story and earn a prize! (OOPE guys, you might do well in the humor section)). Smile


I'm not an expert, but IIRC image creation software adds tags to their propietary file format, and such tags must be coincidental to the system creating the image... Question

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you
Blue Binary
Polychoron
#4 - 2013-10-25 23:35:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Blue Binary
Drag and drop an image onto Google image search.

Not completely accurate, but if it's on the web and Google has indexed it there is a good chance it will match it, or at least find something similar.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#5 - 2013-10-26 02:53:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Blue Binary wrote:
Drag and drop an image onto Google image search.

Not completely accurate, but if it's on the web and Google has indexed it there is a good chance it will match it, or at least find something similar.

That's amazing! I tried with an image from my hard drive. It's a of an old Japanese painting that I'd heavily GIMPed. http://imgur.com/QDO5L9h. Google Image Search found the whole painting, the other half of the old Japanese painting, but not the specific part from my GIMP image. In other words, it found the original image from modified fragment of it. Check it out if you're interested.

Thanks all so far, good stuff.