Do you have friends who are really interested in photography? Have you ever had a friend post a landscape photo that just looked cool? Maybe you wanted to use their image for a graphic or a blog post, but it was a little too awkward to ask them if you could use it. Perhaps they [...]
Images are an excellent way to get an idea or understanding of anything. Many computer users search Google for images of a certain word or object to completely understand what it is. At other times, people use images relevant to words to use in various kinds of projects. Whatever the purpose is, you normally have [...]
Often you will come across online images that you need more information for. In some situations you want to find out what that particular image is all about, such as which celebrity a particular image is of. Other times, you are simply looking for similar images. Fortunately for Google Chrome users, these tasks can easily [...]
Images are used in a variety of projects that cover all categories ranging from an online retail store to somebody’s personal application. But before you use an image in your project, you must ensure that its licensing allows you to use it. Finding such free images that can be used in personal and commercial projects [...]
While looking for quality unique images, you often search on different image hosts and libraries such deviantART, 9GAG, 4Chan, etc. But executing searches on these sites and downloading images separately can be quite inconvenient. Here to offer you a single dashboard for all this activity is a tool called The Image Collector. The Image Collector [...]
Twitter is a highly popular social network where people not only share status updates but also images with their friends and followers. While looking for images, you might want to check the photos people share publicly on Twitter. Here to help you do that is a web tool called ThudIT. ThudIT is a free to [...]
If you require images for a project you are working on, your first try is to get a suitable image that can be used freely under the Creative Commons license. Mostly people search for such images using various online resources. But now a desktop app called CCFinder performs the same task. CCFinder is a free [...]
If you are a web designer or an artist looking for some free stock images to use in your next upcoming project (web layout, blog, etc.) then give yourself a tour around FreeFoto, a great online stock image database. Unlike other websites, the stock images on FreeFoto are under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works [...]
If you happen to be a blogger and just wrote an article, adding images can be a good way to make the post more interesting. If you are looking for a place to find stock photos, give Photo Pin a try. Photo Pin is a website which allows bloggers, and technically any other person to [...]
While preparing presentations or writing reports, you look for images that will fit your project. This means using Google Image search and going through many results till you find an image you like. But if you are looking for any image of an object, then going through this process seems redundant. If you do not [...]
Src-Img is a simple bookmarklet that helps you search for other sources of an image, using Google Image Search. One objective of the tool is to find the original creators of images you see on blogs without attribution. However, the tool can be used for lots of other purposes. For example, when you click on [...]
We all know that Google now allows users to search the web usage images. Do you know that you can perform Google Image search by drawing as well? Yes, it’s possible thanks to Unofficial Google Image Search by Drawing. You can perform Google Image search by drawing anything in the area provided or use your [...]
Almost everyone uses Google Image Search to find pictures, and while it does the job well, there are a few quirks that makes image searching bloated and slower. For example, downloading the full size image in Google Image Search is slow, forcing you to go to the source website and click on the full image. [...]
There are a number of photo apps for iOS devices, the ones that allow you to either take photos and customize them directly or decorate the photos you have in your albums through filters, effects etc. A lot of these photos are public and Teleportd – in their own words – wants to make sense [...]
When you search for images online, often a wide variety of results are displayed. This makes finding the image you want more difficult. Here to help you simplify matters is a web service called PicsLikeThat. PicsLikeThat is a free to use web service that lets you find the images you like in an easier way. [...]
There are numerous websites that fetch filler images for your site and web designs. But if you are looking for great filler custom sized images, you should check out FlickSourcer. FlickSourcer is a free to use website that fetches Creative Commons images from Flickr. All you have to do is enter your desired pixel size [...]
There is no dearth of tools when it comes to searching for free images on the web, but probably none of them are as smart as Ookaboo. Ookaboo is an intelligent image search engine that uses the Semantic Web API to intelligently categorize your results. For example, if you search for the keyword “Jaguar”, Ookaboo [...]
Google Images lets us easily search for photos and other types of images. But thanks to a new web service, we can now put the results of a Google Image search into a browser slideshow. This web service is called simply Google Image Slideshow. Google Image Slideshow is a great and simple tool that shows [...]
Finding duplicate pictures can be beneficial in a number of situations. For instance, finding duplicate pictures can be greatly helpful if you are trying to get the same picture in a different resolution or if you want to see if somebody is reusing your picture. To find duplicate pictures you can use a nifty tool [...]
Teachers often use visual aids and photographs to better explain the topic at hand. If you are looking for such pictures for educational purposes, then Pics4Learning deserves your attention. You will find a large collection of photographs on a variety of topics. Some of these topics/categories include animals, architecture, geography, science, tools, and natural disasters. [...]