As a follow-up to my journal from last week about Art Theft [link] , I would like to share with you an extremely valuable resource that was recently pointed out to me by *DragonInk7:

http://tineye.com/

Tineye is a website that lets you upload a photo from your computer or enter the URL of any photo on the internet. It will then search through over a billion images from all over the world wide web and return results for any images that are identical or look very similar to the image you submitted. It even returns results for images that have different borders, or have been modified slightly.

I have found this to be an extremely helpful tool in identifying art theft, and I would have actually (unknowingly) been featuring an art thief in my journal today if I had not found their images to be stolen using Tineye.

So before you feature an artist in your journal or a piece that seems just a little too good to be true, I recommend that you use Tineye to ensure that the work you are praising has not been stolen.

However, I feel that I should make this recommendation with a caveat - just because an image brings up results on Tineye, it does not necessarily mean for sure that it is stolen. It is entirely possible that the artist on dA also posts their images on other webistes such as Flickr, Photo.net, etc., and so results may be returned for work that is actually legit. It is your responsibility to carefully examine the results that you find with Tineye, and use them as proof of art theft only when you are sure that the work on dA has been stolen. So, as valuable a resource as Tineye might be, please be sure to use it carefully.

Anyway, onto the weekly features. This week's selection of images comes from photographers on dA who each have less than 750 pageviews:

*Lecharmediscret




~patozer




~rATRIJS




~rmbastey




~saidtugcu




*Wayne4585