How do art schools/studios detect plagiarism for digital art in Photoshop?

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Let's say you're given an assignment or work requirement to create some sort of character model or character design in Photoshop from scratch. How can they tell if you didn't just copy a character model from google or someone else's photoshop file that you found online that has all the layers saved, etc

Anonymous · Answer

By checking metadata.

#FBPE · Answer

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Anonymous · Answer

What is more likely is that a student hires an unemployed graduate to do their work. It costs $10 for a homework, $40 for a week project up to $5,000 for a final year project. It is hard to detect because it is original work.
What they can do is ask you how you made the work. They could ask to see original files and not just the exported result. Photoshop files include metadata which includes the serial number of the copy of Photoshop used, time/date saved (including time zone) etc. A computer science student could fix these but most art students don't know about file formats. They will be able to see that certain techniques have been used and ask you about them:- "Did you use the warp tool?", "Show me!"
Anyway they get to know how good the students are and what they can do.

Donnie Porko · Answer

There are programs that will scan the internet for pictures. Tineye.com is one site. Upload a picture and it’ll search for similar pictures.

How do art schools/studios detect plagiarism for digital art in Photoshop?

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