- 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 your city. Take some snaps. Socialize and share your photos afterward.
Interested but can’t find your city? If you’ve got the chops, you can request to be a guide in your home town.
And while it’s not a competition there are some snazzy prizes. Happy shooting!
- 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 seen it lately?
- 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 before “the biggest challenge is simply finding out where your images are in use” .
We know that text-based search to locate image use online leads to few results and that’s where TinEye comes in. Use an image to find image results. It just makes sense.
We’re hearing great stories about TinEye fans finding their images in use, here are just a few samples from the microstock forums…
Christopher found a nice selection of his images on a variety of sites including askmen.com and gforcestaffing:
Bateleur located one of his images as a cover of Amazing Swiss magazine. His reaction? “Not sure which agency they bought it from. I’m going to contact the publishers to see if they’ll send me a copy. P.S. I also found this using TinEye. Brilliant search engine for images.”
Adelaide said “I must say that I am very impressed with TinEye technology. It was able to find an image of mine that is seen cropped in a website.” She found her check-in image in use on lastminute.com’s Italian sister-site.
These are just a few of the nice little stories we’ve heard about folks using TinEye to create tear sheets or portfolios of their work. If you found your image in use online using TinEye let us know!
- 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 her to locate the original kitten photo. Enter TinEye.
With a quick TinEye search I located two results, both of which directed me to the original photographer (Gilad Benari). I even found the title of the image “A_place_under_the_sun“.
I sent veggurl a quick email with the results and she said “I had given up all hope of finding this image. Thank you so much for your help.”
TinEye is an image finding super hero!
- 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 releases lined up for the next few weeks, but to whet your palette we’ll start with something simple: Less scrolling.
In today’s release, we are tidying up the search results page by limiting the number of backlinks that are initially visible in your search results. This means that if TinEye finds your image 46 times on the same website (if the image was used as an avatar, for example), we will only show you the first 2 links to that image on the website, and then allow you to jump to a secondary page with the complete list of 46 backlinks.
So your main results page will be cleaner, and you won’t have to scroll as much. This is an image search engine after all and image search results are what we want you to see!
- 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 share images, and some of Mitchell’s friends liked the image too.
Here’s their exchange:
Victor: Anyone know where it is?
Mitchell: Victor, I wish there were a picture-search engine!
Vincent: It’s in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Here’s the original Flickr picture: http://flickr.com/photos/cestomano/2222529405
Vincent: Mitchell, you should try TinEye, that’s how I found the original Flickr picture. You send in a picture, and it looks into its database and finds other places online where that picture can be found. That’s where I found a direct link to a jpg on Flickr, and I then used Flickr’s API to get the original page on Flickr where that picture can be found. I have a few TinEye invites if you’re interested.
Nice work Vincent, thanks for being a TinEye fan and quite the image sleuth too!
** Image by Cestomano
- 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 index, let us know.We review every submission and consider them for crawling.* Image Alistair Morton
- Colour Search and Colour Love
COLOURlovers is a nifty site where you can check out a world of colour, compare colour palettes, submit news and comments, and read colour related articles and interviews.
We were happy to hear that the nice folks at COLOURlovers have much love for the Idée Labs.
Idée Labs is Idée’s technology playground for visual search and image recognition. You can experiment and play with various implementations of Idée’s visual search technologies.
With Multicolour Search (Alamy and Flickr sets), Visual Search and BYO Image Search there are plenty of ways to work with colour and search millions of images in the Labs.
Says COLOURlovers member Shweta “This is amazing…we can get inspiration for theme board, texture boards — I have gone crazy” and dbme says “Those are some fantastic tools.”
We’re glad you are all enjoying our labs, stay tuned for more fun to be released soon!
- TinEye: Image Search Top Dog!
John Conroy’s 75 Bleeding-Edge Search Engines To Beat Google puts TinEye in the “Top Dog” slot for Image and Photo Search Engines, saying “this thing is gonna be big, boys and girls.”
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