1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,700 [Treehouse Presents - Quick Tips: How to Do a Reverse Image Search with Chris Zabriskie] 2 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:10,950 Hi, I'm Chris. And in this Treehouse Quick Tip, we're going to learn how to do a reverse image search. 3 00:00:10,950 --> 00:00:13,830 I'm sure you've all used Google Images to find images before. 4 00:00:13,830 --> 00:00:17,940 Let's look up my favorite band, The Monkees. Yeah, there's plenty of photographs there. 5 00:00:17,940 --> 00:00:23,830 So Google Images is great for finding photographs, but what if you have a photograph and you don't know where it's from? 6 00:00:23,830 --> 00:00:29,580 Let's look up a picture of a butterfly. So we have a bunch of pictures of butterflies here. 7 00:00:29,580 --> 00:00:38,820 We want to use one for our site. This one looks nice. And we see it's from a blog—this blogspot here for Davao CIty. 8 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:43,410 I don't know how to pronounce that, but it looks like a nice place—got a butterfly house. 9 00:00:43,410 --> 00:00:47,250 Are we sure we're actually able to use this picture on our site? 10 00:00:47,250 --> 00:00:51,570 There's a few ways we can do this. Google Images lets us reverse image search. 11 00:00:51,570 --> 00:00:57,490 So I've saved the picture over here on my desktop. I'm going to drag it and drop it just like that. 12 00:00:57,490 --> 00:01:01,750 It's going to upload it to their servers, and it's going to look for it. Hey, that is a monarch butterfly. 13 00:01:01,750 --> 00:01:05,140 Google Images is also a great way to identify butterflies. 14 00:01:05,140 --> 00:01:09,990 So this tells me what it is, and it also gives me a bunch of pages that have this image on them. 15 00:01:09,990 --> 00:01:16,530 But it's still kind of tough to tell where this actually came from. So let's head over to a site called tineye.com. 16 00:01:16,530 --> 00:01:25,080 Here we can do sort of the same thing. Drag the butterfly over, it's going to give it a look, and it found all sorts of stuff for us. 17 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:31,450 The top one here is from Wikipedia. As you can see, it's been used on a lot of other blogs, as well. 18 00:01:31,450 --> 00:01:39,860 But let's take a look at Wikipedia here, and we'll find this is actually part of a picture that's hosted at Wikimedia Commons. 19 00:01:39,860 --> 00:01:45,900 And we can see here the photo's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, 20 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:49,420 and some more details about the photo are up here. 21 00:01:49,420 --> 00:01:54,190 Stand-alone version right here. Fantastic. Oh that's a nice, big one. 22 00:01:54,190 --> 00:01:59,260 Let's do this one more time and search for The Monkees again. 23 00:01:59,260 --> 00:02:05,680 Let's try and find this picture. Now it's at a website called 8notes.com. I'm not sure what that is. 24 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:10,669 But we're going to copy this, go back to TinEye, paste the URL here. 25 00:02:10,669 --> 00:02:17,770 Let's see if we can use this picture of The Monkees. Well, best match, first result is Getty Images. 26 00:02:17,770 --> 00:02:25,710 Now Getty Images is royalty free for the most part. Stock photography, repository—one of the largest in the world. 27 00:02:25,710 --> 00:02:31,100 And it looks like this photo is not cool for us to use, unless we actually pay for it. 28 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:36,470 Let's see. Hey—$49, 3 month. 29 00:02:36,470 --> 00:02:41,960 Forty-nine dollars for 3 months? Maybe this is something we want to license if we're writing a blog post about The Monkees. 30 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,960 But either way, this is not Creative Commons licensed. 31 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:50,490 So if you've got a photograph you want to use on your website or in your other project and you're not quite sure where it came from, 32 00:02:50,490 --> 00:02:55,890 Google Images or TinEye are great resources for digging a little bit deeper into an image's history. 33 00:02:55,890 --> 00:02:58,920 Now not every reverse image search is going to be quite that easy. 34 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:02,090 You may have to do some real research into trying to find something. 35 00:03:02,090 --> 00:03:08,240 But never assume that just because you can't find where something originally came from, means that it's okay for you to use. 36 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:14,110 Chances are it's copyrighted, and you should treat any photo you find randomly online as something that is protected 37 00:03:14,110 --> 00:03:16,840 and not able to be used in your project. 38 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:23,230 There are, of course, lots of places online to find Creative Commons and other freely licensed photos. Flickr is a great one. 39 00:03:23,230 --> 00:03:31,500 If you go to Flickr and type in flickr.com/creativecommons—there it is—you'll find all sorts of images that are free for you to use 40 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:35,250 in your projects, as long as you're following the very simple licensing terms. 41 00:03:35,250 --> 00:03:40,440 But no matter what photos or images you're using, be sure you have the proper permission or license to use it. 42 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,370 And when in doubt, a quick reverse image search should help you out.