For photographers

A photograph that is shared can end up cropped, resized or recompressed. TraceMyAssets looks for copies by how they look, not only by an invisible mark, and shows you each find next to your original.

Protect your first artwork — free

No credit card needed.

Why check

A copy that was shrunk or cropped no longer carries the invisible mark, which is why every result is also compared with your original by its look.

Your original stays private. You share the protected copy instead.

What you get

  • Your original stays private. You get a protected copy with an invisible watermark to share instead.
  • Automatic scans of the public web, daily on Extra, weekly or monthly on every plan.
  • An email with a count and a link when a scheduled scan finds something new.
  • Each match next to your original, with how strong it is. On paid plans you also see where it was found.
  • You decide what to do. We never contact anyone on your behalf.

Resized and cropped copies

In our tests the invisible mark was lost after any resize or crop. The comparison by look still recognised copies resized to half, recompressed, screenshot-like, brightened, or cropped to the middle 60 percent, on every test image.

Very small copies (a quarter of the size) and a small corner of the image were recognised only some of the time, so expect to miss some of those.

The tests used generated images, not real artwork. The full list of what the mark survives and what it does not is on the Help page.

What we cannot do

  • We look only at public web pages that a search engine has indexed. Private groups, closed apps and some social networks are out of reach.
  • A match is a possible match, never proof of copying or unlicensed use. You review it and decide.
  • No match does not prove that no copy exists.
  • Our test images were generated paintings, not photographs. Real photographs differ in texture, grain and flat areas, so treat the results as a guide, not a guarantee.

Plans

The Free plan covers up to 3 artworks with no card. Pro and Extra add more artworks, more Deep scan credits and the page where each match was found. Extra adds daily scans. Compare the plans.