(Originally for Satama Research Blog)
Google Image Search must be familiar to all of us bloggers. Yet, something that I think this great tool does not have is capability to find similar images to another. Thus, I took few minutes to explore that possibilities there are to find images that match another image with other tools beyond Google.
Great starting point for the exploration is Yahoo’s directory. It had a great list of search tools anyone can use in the similar tasks to me. Out of the list popped out the following.
Tiltomo: -playing on Flickr databases and finding similar photos
Retrivr: shape drawing tool based on Flickr
Montage Maker: Create a montage of similar images, not totally similar, but fancy tool anyway, see e.g. trial on ex-Finnish president Kekkonen
I think these tools open interesting possiblities for designers. Think about it – if your image is just not ok, why not to put on Flickr and seek for similar ones which look nearly the same. What a visual exploration journey…
Do you think this would interest you? Do you think this kind of tools would be good for creating e.g. moodboards etc.?
P.S. Remember the web 2.0 classic – Flickr Tag Browser. It is very similar to this thinking…
