ArchiveJuly 2008

The Worldwide Photo Walk

On Saturday, August 23rd join organizers Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski and folks from around the world in a two hour walk and photo-taking experience. The photo walk is a free social photography event in celebration of the launch of Kelby’s newly updated Lightroom book and is open to photographers of all skill levels. All they ask is that you sign up in advance as space is limited. See...

Have you seen this image?

As you all know I am a big fan of the Everywhere Girl – in as much as I collect all her appearances online and in print, but I decided to expand my collection: I am now on the lookout for the most used business images, the most used dog, most used cat in advertising. Have you seen this image? I bet you have! And so did TinEye… And how about the proverbial business handshake? Have you...

Social media tools to track brand reputation

Rohit Bhargava from Ogilvy’s Digital Influence blog shares his picks for the top six new social media tools for tracking brand reputation. Look who’s in the number three spot.
Hat tip to Ogilvy’s John Stauffer who mentioned the post to me and introduced me to the 360 blog. We’ll be talking to John about tracking client brand images online in a later post.

Portfolio building with TinEye

One of the challenges faced by microstock photographers is building a portfolio of images in use. Odds are that once an image is purchased it’s unlikely that the photographer will hear back about how and where that image was used. How do you demonstrate that your work is in demand? What if you just want to show your published work to friends and family? As we’ve heard...

Locating original images with TinEye

Veggurl posted a query on Yahoo!Answers a few weeks ago asking “Could you please help me find the original image? I found this photo on photobucket. It has been modified. I am desperate to find the original photo. I have tried searching on Google and Yahoo, no luck. Can someone help me? Thank you.” Here’s the image she posted: Unfortunately the only response didn’t help...

New TinEye Features are Here

Well, the new features aren’t ‘here’ exactly–you’ll have to go to TinEye for that. But starting today you can read all about the latest features and improvements being released for TinEye right here on the Idée Blog. Find out straight from the source what’s new, what’s in the works, and maybe even catch a sneak preview or two… We have a tasty set of...

TinEye finds your image sources

Sometimes people ask us, what exactly can you use TinEye for? Well, there’s a long list, but here’s just one example of a great way to use our image search engine. Mitchell liked an image he found on the website pixdaus.com and posted it to his friendfeed. Unfortunately, the photographer’s name was missing and there was no link to the original image source. On friendfeed you can...

TinEye, Crawl This Site

We know your images are out there, and our beta image search engine sometimes doesn’t find the ones that you know are online. That’s okay, we’re still growing, and you can help us. Did you know you can submit a site to TinEye for indexing? We’re constantly crawling the web for new content so if you know of a particular website that would be useful for us to add to the...

Stock Photo Help Desk Lady

It seems like data room lady has a challenger. TinEye found “stock photo help desk lady” in over 40 places on the web. You can check out the TinEye search to see all the results or request an invite if you don’t have a beta account. Help desk lady is busy! She works for so many companies… impressive! While she is no competition for Everywhere Girl, it’s still pretty...