Some of you may already know this. Some maybe not.
As a reminder for those who know, and as an introduction to those who don't,
I wrote this little tutorial on how to (reverse) search images.
It usually happens.
You type "paper model" (or anything similar) in yahoo while looking for kits you don't have yet.
Or you happen to be in a dubious download page, and see an interesting kit.
Or someone just shares a photo.
But, unfortunately, they give no f47#1ng credit to the author, do not link back
to where they took the image from, or are just plainly stealing other's persons work.
And you still wish to know... "where does that model come from?"
Instead of spending countless hours fruitlessly guess-searching the web,
there are a couple of reverse-search methods.
TinEye
The first one I knew of was "TinEye", a free reverse image search engine you can use online at: https://tineye.com
Its use is simple and intuitive. You just upload the image you have saved by using the arrow,
or paste the URL in the box, and hit enter.
Usually Tineye is very precise in pin-pointing various occurrences of an image in the web.
Some restrictions apply (as they explain in the FAQ).
Recently they added a feature not present in their early days: "sort by oldest".
There you have it, the oldest version of the image in the web, and almost surely the origin of all the pinterest re-shares.
TinEye is a fast way to find duplicate images on the web.
I've used it to find if my drawings or designs are being shared in other places without my permission.
Is not perfect, but makes a great job.
Google Images
Another image search method is provided by Google itself.
At google images http://ift.tt/1oc6Xdg you can upload the image,
or paste the URL of the image you found.
The results in Google are usually much more than those at TinEye.
However, as you can see, the original source of the image I looked for (the Toyota blog) ranks 5th in the list.
And there are many other results where the image is used, but you can not sort the results by age of the file.
In my personal use of the two methods, I've found TinEye friendlier and more precise.
But there are times when the image doesn't show up on TinEye, and yet Google is able to find it.
Sometimes the contrary also happens. So the advice is: use both just to be sure.
An even simpler and faster way to use both engines is to add them to the right click button of your mouse:
Tineye has a direct link to the browser extensions just below the search box.
For Google Images you may have to search it at your browser's add-ons place.
I am not aware of more image search engines. They probably are out there, but I'm not really sure.
Since this two work fine for me, I haven't have the need of more.
Hope this is useful for you.
Comments or additions to this are welcome.
As a reminder for those who know, and as an introduction to those who don't,
I wrote this little tutorial on how to (reverse) search images.
It usually happens.
You type "paper model" (or anything similar) in yahoo while looking for kits you don't have yet.
Or you happen to be in a dubious download page, and see an interesting kit.
Or someone just shares a photo.
But, unfortunately, they give no f47#1ng credit to the author, do not link back
to where they took the image from, or are just plainly stealing other's persons work.
And you still wish to know... "where does that model come from?"
Instead of spending countless hours fruitlessly guess-searching the web,
there are a couple of reverse-search methods.
TinEye
The first one I knew of was "TinEye", a free reverse image search engine you can use online at: https://tineye.com
Its use is simple and intuitive. You just upload the image you have saved by using the arrow,
or paste the URL in the box, and hit enter.
Usually Tineye is very precise in pin-pointing various occurrences of an image in the web.
Some restrictions apply (as they explain in the FAQ).
Recently they added a feature not present in their early days: "sort by oldest".
There you have it, the oldest version of the image in the web, and almost surely the origin of all the pinterest re-shares.
TinEye is a fast way to find duplicate images on the web.
I've used it to find if my drawings or designs are being shared in other places without my permission.
Is not perfect, but makes a great job.
Google Images
Another image search method is provided by Google itself.
At google images http://ift.tt/1oc6Xdg you can upload the image,
or paste the URL of the image you found.
The results in Google are usually much more than those at TinEye.
However, as you can see, the original source of the image I looked for (the Toyota blog) ranks 5th in the list.
And there are many other results where the image is used, but you can not sort the results by age of the file.
In my personal use of the two methods, I've found TinEye friendlier and more precise.
But there are times when the image doesn't show up on TinEye, and yet Google is able to find it.
Sometimes the contrary also happens. So the advice is: use both just to be sure.
An even simpler and faster way to use both engines is to add them to the right click button of your mouse:
Tineye has a direct link to the browser extensions just below the search box.
For Google Images you may have to search it at your browser's add-ons place.
I am not aware of more image search engines. They probably are out there, but I'm not really sure.
Since this two work fine for me, I haven't have the need of more.
Hope this is useful for you.
Comments or additions to this are welcome.
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