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Find images by colour

Have you ever wanted to find an image that matches your logo, template or ad layout? Yotophoto have added color searching capabilities to their advanced search options. Now anyone can quickly find images containing any color.

There are two different ways to specify a search color:

• Use the color picker. The color picker allows you to easily select a color from a palette of over 16 million colors (javascript required)
• Enter a color code. Advanced users can enter color codes using 6-digit hex notation. These codes can easily be pasted from applications like Photoshop, Illustrator and others.

Technical details

Instead of using the overall color average of an image as other sites do, their engine analyses the colour histogram of every image to determine the most prominent colors in each. In addition, the algorithm will weigh these colors based on their frequency and location within the image. The result is a very accurate and fast color searching experience. This is the first public release of the feature so keep an eye out for forthcoming improvements.