Making Images Unique

[Moonlight1]

What is the best way to make the same image unique so Instagram does not catch you for using the same picture for multiple acccounts?

- I know about changing the hash/md5 with tools like batchpurifier.
- There are of course batch image changers out there to edit the images, but what will make it unique? What options do I need to use as saturation and cropping will not always be good?

Does IG see the image as unique when you, for example, add black lines around the whole picture?
I want to use like 16 pictures for 50-100 profiles, now the big Q is how do I do that?

 

[Vybra]

You can add your watermark to your image and try cropping it differently if it can be done.

 

[Nut-Nights]

Download hashmanger

 

[Moonlight1]

For instance, I downloaded a picture and I'm testing with tiny eye or Google Search Image if the image can be found after I edit it.

I tried: Adding a border, watermarking it (put the watermark in the corner, or on the person itself), changed lighting a little, using hash manager and batch purifier, changing the name of the file.

All the times the image was found, so it seems to not work..
I don't think the capabilities of IG is less than these 2..

 

[TheMarquis]

To make a image unique, you should follow these steps:
1. Open the image with an image editor ( I use GIMP );
2. Flip ( mirror ) the image.
3. Cut a very small size from the corners ( you can also add a border );
4. Resize the image: Let's say, if the image have the size 925x925, you should make 1925x1925 ( be careful with the quality of the image );
5. Optional - Change some colors from it. For example, if a bag is blue, you can change the color of it into green.
6. Save the image with another title. Also, check the details of the image ( properties -> details ).
7. Check it with TinEye

 

[HoNeYBiRD]

To make a image unique, you should follow these steps:
1. Open the image with an image editor ( I use GIMP );
2. Flip ( mirror ) the image.
3. Cut a very small size from the corners ( you can also add a border );
4. Resize the image: Let's say, if the image have the size 925x925, you should make 1925x1925 ( be careful with the quality of the image );
5. Optional - Change some colors from it. For example, if a bag is blue, you can change the color of it into green.
6. Save the image with another title. Also, check the details of the image ( properties -> details ).
7. Check it with TinEye

If you have a 925x925 picture and you resize it to 1925x1925, it will look really bad, otherwise flipping, cropping, changing colors can work. And Tineye was great once, but Google reverse image search is superior by now, it shows more accurate results, testing with just Tineye won't reveal the whole truth in many cases.

 

[overdozer84]

I chaange only md5 and filename and i have no problem for posting same photo on multiple accounts

 

[Netkas]

First of all this

I chaange only md5 and filename and i have no problem for posting same photo on multiple accounts

Is dumb, changing the file name WILL NOT affect the hash nor will it matter because Instagram deals with a lot of files with the same file name if you think about it.

You can easily automate this process if you know some python, you should check out https://github.com/theitrain/watermark

 

[Mega_Fierce]

I was just wondering the same thing.
What if it is memes that TONS of people have used already? How would they know which accounts are mine if they are on different proxies? Wouldn't everyone posting that meme get noticed/banned by instagram?

 

[Mega_Fierce]

Download hashmanger

Does changing MD5 Hash on my pictures make me 100% safe to post lots of the same pictures to different accounts?

 

[rootjazz]

Does changing MD5 Hash on my pictures make me 100% safe to post lots of the same pictures to different accounts?

depends how ISG are checking for duplicates.

If just the CRC / md5 then it is easy to get a unique number, just save the image as a jpg with a different quality value. That will generate a clean hash of the image. Likewise, just load the bytes to a buffer and change a few of them.

This is probably ok. I doubt ISG is running complex CV (computer vision) processes on all images uploaded to check for non hash duplicates.

But it will probably be one of those things that "is alright until it isn't". So if hash changing works for me, milk it whilst it works but don't assume it will work forever

 

[overdozer84]

I change the hash with hashmanager and i rename files too. It work for me without problem

 

[Moonlight1]

Thanks for all replies guys!
@rootjazz So in theory I can just copy all the images a couple of times, use IMBatch to add a small border somewhere on the image, after that I use hash manager and I must be good? (for now..)

 

[rootjazz]

Thanks for all replies guys!
@rootjazz So in theory I can just copy all the images a couple of times, use IMBatch to add a small border somewhere on the image, after that I use hash manager and I must be good? (for now..)

that will change the hash / md5 / crc (whatever you want to call it) of the image.

Simply changing a pixel from
#ff0000
to
#ff0001

will change the hash. The hash will indicate whether the image is EXACTLY the same. An image saved to jpeg quality 90 and saved as quality 85 will look identical, but is a different hash as at a byte level it is different..

 

[TheRekz]

Any updates on this issue as per 2019 ? I have tried all the above and is still getting pv after uploading the image across accounts

 

[M4DM4X]

Google AI is too much advanced now to make copied images unique .
Better take your DSLR and shoot new pics

 

[Focused99]

Just buy from Adobe Stock and put your own logo on it. Resize and optimize it for SEO.

Alternatively, you can just take your own pictures, but depending on the niche that might be more difficult.