6+ Image and Icon Search Engines Designers Should Know
Let’s face it, most of us don’t create every single image and icon when we do web design. It is not because we can’t but merely because we’ve got better options. Kudos to many designers and their generosity, there are in fact a lot of really nice creative common images and icons on the Internet we can take advantage. All we need to know is – where to find them.
Image Search Engines
EveryStockPhoto
A search engine for free photos come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos.
Xcavator
Xcavator.net is a stock photo search portal for the creative community. You can quickly browse the way you think – visually – through millions of stock images.
Ginipic
Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously.
GazoPa
GazoPa is a next generation similar image search engine in private beta. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords.
FreeFoto
FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet. FreeFoto.com features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.
TurboPhoto – Free Stock Images
Browse and download 2,000 (3.4 GB) free stock images from 10 categories (view all thumbnails below). Stock images are in the public domain.
Feelimage
Feelimage is not only key words search. It is also equipped phrase search, that is images search engine ‘FeelPhrase®‘.
It’s corresponding 127 colors, and has a technology that quantifies colors like ‘red’ ‘ blue’ in images.
oSkope
oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse and organize items from Amazon, Ebay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube in an intuitive way.
Incogna
Incogna process the shape in every image and use this to build a large scale searchable visual index.
