January 12, 2012
These days you don’t have to limit your search to just websites. Many other forms of content are easy to find, including images. No matter what you’re looking for, an image is (for better or worse) just one image search away. You may wonder, however, how image search works. How are images sorted and classified, making it possible to find tens or hundreds of relevant results?
July 21, 2011
Public Domain refers to material that is ‘publicly available’ and not covered by intellectual property or copyrights. In today’s media, where visual art is abundant, there is a high demand for images, for example for webdesign projects. As a consequence, there are many stock photography websites where artists can sell their photographs or image designs.
April 23, 2011
We have featured the Flickr Interestingness section in a few popular articles in the past. It is quite obvious that we (as well as our readers) love the feature because it is unique and really smart. It’s been working wonders for discovering the most creative photography artwork. For me, Flickr Interestingness has always been a constant stream of inspiration.
April 13, 2011
Like all Google products, Google Image Search has continuously been tweaked and improved. The latest change comes to the Google Similar Images option. Google has put in a feature that now you can use to search for similar images across a single site.
March 1, 2011
Do you have a Flickr account? We hear a lot of buzz these days about how many photos are being uploaded to Facebook on a daily basis, but people sometimes forget about Flickr, which is still going strong after all these years. Back in September, in fact, Flickr announced their 5 billionth photo being uploaded, [...]
January 10, 2011
Google Images search has two huge advantages over other image search engines: it operates the largest database on the web and it is getting smarter by the day. Apart from serving as a great source of content for your website, Google Images can be a powerful tool to find inspiration and spur creativity. This post [...]
November 6, 2010
Flickr is an amazing resource of creative images. It’s always been the main source of inspiration to me. I once listed some awesome Flickr search tools that are HUGE fun to use and Nancy did a great job explaining how to upload and use Flickr photos the easy way. This post takes a bit different [...]
October 25, 2010
If you search a lot (to collect information for blogging, research and inspiration), you may know that in many cases “words” are not enough to help you find what you need.Very often, you really don’t know what exactly you are looking for and you can’t describe it in words – in this case, you need [...]
October 24, 2010
If you’re designing a new website or looking for a cool twitter background, coming up with an interesting pattern is essential for adding some eyecandy to your page. If you can’t create that pattern yourself, there are lots of great resources available online for downloading patterns for free that you can use for commercial or [...]
October 2, 2010
The ways we search for information online are constantly evolving. One of the most interesting (comparatively) new methods currently being developed by companies around the web revolves around the idea of using images as a basis for search queries. Of course we already have a plethora of color-based image search engines as well as other [...]
