Your flaky freelance designer has abruptly closed up shop to go backpacking across Europe, leaving you without any assets or files from your business collateral or website.
After partnering with a new, reliable agency, you need to track down your favorite stock photos used in all of your business collateral–but how?
Instead of wasting hours doing aimless searches for your favorite image among dozens of stock photo websites, you can find what you’re looking for in seconds by using a handy little site called TinEye.
TinEye is a robust reverse-image search engine that will locate your long-lost image and point you to the stock photo website from which it was purchased.
While TinEye can locate almost any image you upload or provide a URL for, there are some instances when even the most clever search engine fails.
When it works:
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Image matches stock photo exactly |
Black and white |
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Image crop |
Clipping path |
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Watermark |
Vignette |
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Type overlay |
Photoshop filter |
When it doesn’t work:
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Additional elements
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Pattern |
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Website screenshot |
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TinEye is a handy tool that anyone can use. It saves everyone time and money. Be sure to bookmark this post or you’ll be kicking yourself the next time you need to find the original source for a stock photo.
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