Colin Bell read about TinEye on a US photographers forum. He ran some of his images through our image search engine and came up with some interesting finds. One website (of a “rather well known organization” he politely says, not mentioning any names) stepped right up when he brought the use of his image to their attention. They offered to pay Colin and after a quick negotiation the...
TinEye and watermarks
One of the questions we hear quite often is about watermarks on images. Is it better to search with the watermark on the image or search using the original without a watermark? For TinEye, typically images with visible watermarks should be avoided. TinEye views the watermark as part of the image and may find matches for the watermark rather than for the rest of the image.
Happy searching!
Bloody clever
Photographer Adrian Carmody over on redbubble says TinEye is “a bloody clever way of searching for your images.” Well, our image search engine is the first of its kind, able to find your images online without keywords or metadata — clever indeed! The way it matches images is incredibly unique. It doesn’t search on file name or size. I tried with thumbnails of my images, and it...
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...
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...