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PicScout ImageExchange lets creative pros instantly ID images on Google, Yahoo, Bing, and most web pages.
Let me show you how it works.
Go to picscout.com/imageexchange and download the free app available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.
This demonstration focuses on the Firefox version.
Once you download the free app, it instantly IDs licensable images and lets you know the image license type.
When you select an image, a dialogue box opens, revealing who you can license the image from.
And with one click on the "get image" button, it takes you directly to the license page for that particular image.
Let's try it out online.
Let's go to Google Images. Note that I currently have the ImageExchange side panel minimized.
In the lower right-hand corner it tells me no images found on this page. No surprise.
I can expose the side panel by clicking on the arrow and clicking "Show Sidebar."
So let's look for some licensable images.
Let's say we're looking for fall colors.
You'll note several images are populating in the right side panel.
And the counters both at the top and the bottom of the panel show you current image count.
As you think about the design choices you have, and your client's expectations for the types of images you can use...
...such as rights-managed, royalty-free, and microstock...
...you know right away that a series of these images can be licensed immediately.
When you click on an image arrow, the ImageExchange dialogue box opens...
...letting you know that this image is available from Dreamstime.
When you click on the Dreamstime button, it takes you directly to the Dreamstime page...
...allowing you to buy the rights to use the image.
Now let's say you were also interested in one of the rights-managed images.
You click on the arrow, and you see that this image is available from Superstock.
When you click on the "get image" license button...
...it takes you directly to the licensing page for Superstock to allow you to buy the rights to use that image.
Now I mentioned that ImageExchange works in Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
It also works on web pages.
Let's say you're visiting this blog.
You notice this beautiful image, and you think it would be perfect for your design.
Without ImageExchange you wouldn't know who you could license this image from.
But with ImageExchange, you immediately know that it's a rights-managed image...
...and in one click, you can license it directly from Masterfile for your use.
Let's now try using ImageExchange on Yahoo.
Say you're looking for images from a certain photographer. You can search by the photographer's name.
Let's type in Dano Pendygrasse.
You'll notice several images are populating in the right side panel.
These are all rights-managed images.
By choosing the image of interest, you know you can license this image from Photoshelter.
Now if we go back to the Yahoo search, you'll also notice that this image has been identified...
...even though it originally was a color image.
ImageExchange can identify images even if they've been cropped, rotated, re-sized, or otherwise re-colored.
So even though this image is populating as a black and white image through the search engine where it was last used...
...you can actually go back to the original source and gain access to that image--in this case directly from Photoshelter.
That's ImageExchange, a free app you can download for Firefox or Internet Explorer...
...that allows you to search for, connect to, and license images instantly.
We hope you download it today! Thank you.