Research Guides: Image Use & Citation: Reverse Image Search

Reverse Image Search

Reverse Image Search is what you would do to find the creator/ owner of an image online when you do not know the source. You can use Google Image Search or Tineye to help find the creator/ owner of an image. However, sometimes these searches are not exact and you will have to sift through the results to find the one you are looking for. If you cannot decide which result is the best one, do your best & provide:

link where you found the image
give credit to the creator
follow copyright & Creative Commons guidelines

TinEye
Using TinEye, you can search by image or perform what we call a reverse image search. You can do that by uploading an image, or searching by URL. You can also simply drag and drop your images to start your search.
TinEye constantly crawls the web and adds images to its index. Today, the TinEye index is over 31.1 billion images.
Google Reverse Image Search
When you search using an image, your search results may include similar images, sites that include the image, and other sizes of the image you searched for.

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Image Use & Citation

Reverse Image Search