Finding high resolution images online can sometimes be challenging, especially when the same image appears in dozens of different sizes and quality levels. Whether you’re verifying the ownership of an image, sourcing visuals for your presentation or conducting research, locating the highest resolution of an image is often the fastest way to identify the original source. In this guide, you will...
How to use TinEye to search for an image
Reverse image search engines let you search using an image instead of text. TinEye is the original reverse image search engine, using image recognition to match against a growing index of billions of images. You can use TinEye to trace an image’s origin, verify its authenticity, see how it’s being used, find modified versions, or locate a higher-resolution copy.
How to verify dating profiles with TinEye
With Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, and February being the month of love, we want to give you, our online dating friends, some tips on how TinEye can help you verify dating profiles.
What color is this dress? TinEye’s color algorithm tells you
It’s always a great day in the TinEye HQ when we can settle team arguments using our own technology. You have probably heard about a photograph called “the dress”, that has polarized the web. Well, our TinEye team is divided into 2 fiercely opposed camps: the blue and black versus the gold and white camp. So instead of arguing over colors (!) we settled this like grown ups: we...
An instance where reverse image search would be helpful
It is always “nice” to be reminded of how our TinEye fans feel when they spot one of their images used without credit. But what’s even more “fun”, is to see your own image featured in an article about image recognition with hardly a mention of one of the most integrated image recognition APIs in the world.
MulticolorEngine: color search with tags
TinEye color search fans rejoice! One of the most requested feature for our TinEye color search lab is the ability to not only search by color but also refine searches by using tags. And that’s what you are going to be able to do as of now: our new color search lab incorporates tags. You can now search 20 million creative commons images using both colors and tags.
Introducing color search for Apartment Therapy
Apartment Therapy introduces color search powered by our MulitcolorEngine API! Insert happy excited GIF right here! Thanks to a partnership with Sherwin Williams, Apartment Therapy house tour photos are now searchable by color. Go ahead and give it a try. You can pick up to 5 colors for your searches.
Doubleplus Chutzpah!
Doubleplus Chutzpah or when a company in your industry helps itself to your images! Sometimes what we find when we look at where our TinEye graphics appear on the web (we are an image search company after all!) is not really surprising. Like our corporate logo in the profile of an Elance designer we don’t even know! That’s not news as this type of thing happens everyday on the web...
The story behind the TinEye robot
Many of our TinEye fans have asked us about the history of the TinEye robot, if the robot has a name, how was it created? and if TinEye itself was inspired by Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy (it was not). So we thought to start off the new year we would reminisce with Stephen DesRoches about creating the TinEye robot. We invited Stephen to tell you the story from his designer...
MulticolorEngine Lab: Get my color – or color extraction
MulticolorEngine, the API powering our color search lab is now available for licensing. You have probably already played with our color search lab and already experienced addictive color searching but if you haven’t give it a whirl today.