When I first heard of TinEye, my first thought was “What exactly is a REVERSE image search?” Well it turns out it’s quite clever and useful. If you’ve got an image, TinEye will examine the actual image contents (not just keywords, tags, and such) to find the source (or any other instances) of that image. Of course it doesn’t have ALL the images on the web, it’s currently at about 2 billion, but that’s enough to make it already useful. There’s a web front-end, plugins for most of the major browsers, and even an API for external tasks. How useful can reverse image search be? Let’s find out.
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Perform A Reverse Image Search With TinEye
By | April 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
Batch Image Processing the Easy Way with Phatch
By | February 10, 2011 |
Have a bunch of photos you need to shrink? Or watermark? Or tag? Maybe add some shadows, round some corners, or stick your blog’s address into the corner? We’ve covered batch image processing a little bit before, but for the serious image processor, GIMP might not be enough. For that, we’ve got Phatch – a simple, lovely, amazingly useful utility that can handle all your batch image processing needs on Linux, Windows, or Mac. Oh, and it’s free.
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How to Compress Your Images Without Affecting the Quality
By | August 22, 2010 |
If you have a whole bunch of high-resolution photos, chances are, you won’t be able to upload them to your favorite social sharing sites, simply because their file size are too big. One of the solution is to compress the photos to reduce the file size. This give rises to another problem: most applications are not able to retain the image quality after the compression. So you are down with two choices: to retain the photos in its original big size high-resolution setting, or accept the reduction in the quality with the benefit of a smaller file size.
What if you can compress the images by up to 90% and retain the quality at the same time? This is where Caesium comes in.
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How To Capture And Manage Your Screenshots Easily In Windows
By | March 1, 2009 |
Picture paints a thousand words. That statement applied nicely to blog posts: text only blogs are dull.
So we need pictures. Where can we get them? We can:
- go around the neighborhood with our digital camera.
- snatch a picture or two from image sharing community sites like Flickr or Picasa Web Album.
- capture the picture from our computer screen.
Geeky bloggers like me prefer the last. The method fits my blog theme and I don’t have to stand too long under the sun nor face legal threats for ‘stealing’ copyrighted images.
