Search for Images via Hex Code
8th October 2006
Yotophoto is a search engine that specializes in finding freely licensable images. In that aspect it’s not too different from other search sites such as Creative Commons Search. For example, I wanted to find a picture of a very intense monkey (don’t ask why) and it was very helpful.
But what if I wanted to find something more specific like, say, a bright red car? Not all people tag or label their images based on color, so Yotophoto’s color search feature is pretty handy. Here are the search results for cars with the added hex code for red, which is #FF0000.
Even with their little color picker, though, it’s a little hard sometimes to pick a hex code that will give good results. They’re blog explains how the color matching algorithm is implemented, but I really don’t think it works as well as it should. I hope they continue working on it, though, because it could be quite useful. You know, for finding more pictures of monkeys.
