1. Image Search

2. Copyright
Always assume photos, videos, podcasts, graphics are “all rights reserved” unless otherwise specified Specialist search tools may find your infringing content e.g.PicScout ( owned by Getty Images License details in text associated with file Copyright information in metadata – can be stripped out so don’t rely on its absence to confirm you can use a photo Visual watermarks/license statements on images and videos Digital watermarks on images e.g. Digimarc ( Not obvious but can be tracked even if you alter the colours, size, crop it or take a screen shot
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3. Digimarc report

4. Editorial Photographers UK - Aerial photographer's damages claim achieves record height
The copyright infringer had removed all 33 (!) of the text watermarks that overlaid the image, then used the image as the background for every page of their business website.

5. Copyright
Know your licenses All rights reserved – contact the copyright owner Creative Commons
Attribution
Noncommercial
No Derivative Works
Share Alike
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)
Public Domain Work
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6. Select your search terms carefully
You are usually searching on the creator’s/publisher’s file name, title, tags, description and possibly the text just immediately surrounding the image or object Some databases have minimal descriptions of the content if any You won’t be using Google all of the time – most tools will not automatically search for variations and synonyms of a term Not all media may be available in your location. You may have to find another tool, or use a VPN
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7. Changes to Google Images desktop layout
Making visual content more useful in Search

8. Old Google images layout
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9. Google image search
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10. Google image search - colour
Colour options may be present in the list across the top of the results .
Alternatively click on Tools and then Color .
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11. Google image search – usage rights (click on Tools, Usage rights)

12. Google Image Search – type e. g
Google Image Search – type e.g. Face if you are looking for people (Click on Tools, Type)

13. Google image search – Time (Click on Tools, Time)

14. Google image search - time
Google won’t show images if you set a time before April 2008
Date range 1 Jan 2007 – 31 Mar 2008
Date range 1 Jan 2007 – 1 May 2008

15. Google image search – selecting an image

16. Google reverse image search
Click on the camera
Paste image URL into box or choose the ‘Upload an image’ option.
URL used was

17. Google reverse image search - results
As well as finding matching or similar images Google tries to describe the image. It sometimes gets it wrong so always check what it uses.
You will need to scroll down past the visually similar images to get to the list of pages that have matching images.
Bing’s reverse image is generally better and Tineye allows you to sort by date.

18. Bing image search – similar to Google’s in some ways
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19. Bing image search
“Date” only offers All, Past 24 hours, Past week, Past month, Past year Bing has a separate “People” tab and “License” has options for All Creative Commons and Public domain

20. Bing reverse image search – more options for providing an image

21. Bing Visual Search - search within an image
Click on Visual Search in the lower left hand area of the screen, then drag and resize box around the object you want to search for

22. Yandex image search - https://yandex.com/images/
No License option and only “Recent” for date

23. Yandex reverse image search

24. Tineye – https://tineye.com/
Reverse image search only
Coverage not as complete as Google or Bing and may not have recent photos in its database.
Option to show “Collection images”, if found, at the top of the results
images that TinEye has crawled from specific websites (e.g. flickr.com,wikipedia.com )
can help you identify the origin of an image
Also option to show stock images if found e.g. Getty Images, Shutterstock
Can sort results by oldest/newest appearance – useful for tracing the history of usage

25. Tineye https://tineye.com/

26. Tineye https://tineye.com/
Looking for occurrences of image at
Also found Flickr ”Collection” image.

27. Tineye – https://tineye.com/
Image associated with a Guardian article. Guardian gives attribution to AFP/Getty Images. But if it had not?
Reverse search of the image on Tineye and selecting “stock” option shows that it is indeed a Getty image.

28. Many browser add-ons, extensions and apps for reverse image search
Browser add-ons /extensions gives the option to right click on the image on a web page and carry out a reverse image search from there.

29. The Best Ways to Perform a Reverse Image Search
Best Reverse Image Search Engines, Apps And Uses (2016) Updated 15 October
The Best Ways to Perform a Reverse Image Search
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30. TinEye Multicolr http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr
Search by colour and keyword
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31. TinEye Multicolr http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr
Can follow through to original photo on Flickr and check license.
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32. Google Art & Culture Experiment - Art Palette https://artsexperiments
Google Launches Three New Artificial Intelligence Experiments That Could Be Godsends for Artists, Museums & Designers

33. CC Search https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/
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34. Selected Creative Commons and public domain image databases
Advanced Internet Search Strategies
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Selected Creative Commons and public domain image databases
Wikimedia Commons (but double check) MorgueFile.com Curated open source Wellcome Collection Images (various Creative Commons – check details for each image) NASA (check usage quidelines at
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(c) Karen Blakeman 2009

35. Selected Creative Commons and public domain image databases
Advanced Internet Search Strategies
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Selected Creative Commons and public domain image databases
Geograph “UK and Ireland photos of landmarks and buildings for every Ordnance Survey grid” Flickr: Creative Commons Flickr: The Commons
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(c) Karen Blakeman 2009

36. Flickr: Creative Commons https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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37. Flickr: Creative Commons https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
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38. Flickr: The Commons https://www.flickr.com/commons/institutions/
Important: not all collections are CC or public domain
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39. Selection of free photo sites
Free Images - Pixabay Watch out for the “sponsored images” Unsplash Vintage and Modern Free Public Domain Images Archive Download Pexels

40. Europeana Collections https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en
Not all material CC or public domain – check individual items that you wish to use

41. Art UK https://artuk.org/

42. Google Arts & Culture https://artsandculture.google.com/

43. Pinterest https://www.pinterest.co.uk/
Not a service that I would personally use as part of my usual image research tool kit, but ...
Google and other search engines often give it as a “source” when searching for images
Sometimes picks up images and sources of an image not readily found by other tools
Human curated “boards” can have better “related” images than the search engines
Need to click through on image to verify source and content – Pinterest subscription required (free)

44. “A picture is worth a thousand words” (or lies?)

45. SearchReSearch http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/
SearchReSearch: Answer: Fake or real? How do you know?
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46. How to Tell if a Photo Has Been Doctored https://lifehacker
Poor editing – distortions, warping, poorly erased objects Inconsistent lighting and shadows Repeating pixels, poor cloning, duplicate artefacts e.g. clouds, fingers (!) EXIFdata (Exchangeable Image File), metadata – but most social media e.g. Facebook, LinkedIN, Google Blogger strip out EXIF data

47. Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi
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48. EXIF Data Viewer http://exifdata.com/

49. Image Edited? http://imageedited.com/ (can only upload image)

50. Other EXIF and metadata viewers
FotoForensics Metapicz Exif Pilot - free offline EXIF and metadata viewer and editor Photo editing software e.g. Adobe Photoshop

51. Where did that photo come from?
EXIF and metadata may have been stripped out either on purpose or by social media site
Use reverse image search to see where else a photo has been used and when
Google, Bing, Yandex
Tineye – has sort by oldest first option, but date is the date crawled and not the date the photo was taken or edited
General search on the topic of the photo combined with the term ‘fake’ or ‘hoax’

52. Fool Me Once on Social Media… | Cryptic Philosopher
Europeans trying to get to North Africa during the second world war? Story has been debunked.
Albanians fleeing to Italy on the Vlora in 1991
Ship wasn’t built until the 1960s (marine databases)
Reverse image search and text search reveal true background to the story
Also, zoom in on the people and clothes are not second world war!

53. Chapter 4 of the Verification Handbook http://verificationhandbook
Chapter 4 of the Verification Handbook (starts at page 35)

54. Is this really a photo of the UK House of Lords debating the future of the NHS?
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55. Tineye http://tineye.com/
Option to sort by oldest
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56. And finally....