We first featured Cooliris nearly three years ago, when it was still called PicLens. TinEye can be particularly useful for identifying the artist or original source of photographs and artwork that you happen to stumble upon on Tumblr or another all-too-often unreferenced photo bookmarking service. We were able to use it on a scan of an obscure German calendar from our childhood and TinyEye proceeded to promptly produce a
TinEye is reverse image search - feed it any image, either by uploading or by pasting the image URL, and it’ll tell you where it came from.
Clicking each related tag produces the same grid of images tagged with it, semantically leading you down the endless image tagging rabbit hole.įRTB is the work of interactive designer Felix Turner, a Flash whiz who helped build the now-ubiquitous Brightcove video players. You may recall Flickr Related Tag Browser from pickings past - a sleek web app retrieves Flickr images tagged with your search keyword in a neat grid, surrounded by a radial display of related tags. Particularly useful: The CreativeCommons search option, which filters results by image rights license type.ĬompFight was featured in the Experimental category of this year’s Communication Arts annual. It lets you search based on tag or text, spitting out a pleasant wall of thumbnails. You can skim thumbnails related to your search keywords and save search results from different services to a visual bookmark bar at the bottom of your browser screen.ĬompFight is a Flickr search tool tremendously useful for all your comp stock image needs but also doubling as a visual inspiration ignition engine. OSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse images and products from popular sites like Amazon, eBay, YouTube and Flickr in a highly intuitive way. Although Google has been playing with some fun image search toys in its lab and the official Google Image Search has recently significantly upped its game, some of its most hyped features - color search, instant scrolling, hover preview - are but mere shadows of sleeker, better versions that geekier, more sophisticated image search tools offer.
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