Image Search Tips:
Use this page to refine your photo search using a variety of parameters
to locate the file you need.
NEW! Multi-View Search: We give you a variety of ways to locate the image you need: Standard Search, Hot Images, Popular Contributors and Most Downloaded. While you are viewing results, try changing your results view to "Hot Images" or "Most Downloaded". Your search results will change and clicking between search results buttons is a great way to see more variety of images within your search results.
If you don't see image results you like within one view - try a new image results view instantly. Play around with it!
Here are explanations of these important ways to view your image results:
| Standard Search: |
Our standard search algorithm. This takes into consideration the words you entered, and a variety of other things like the image's keywords, title, how many times it was downloaded, etc. |
| Hot Images: |
These are images that match your search terms and have been downloaded a lot lately |
| Popular Contributors: |
These are images that match your search terms and are from our most popular image contributors. |
| Most Downloaded: |
These are images that match your search terms and have been downloaded more than any other images. |
More important search tips:
- Try viewing "All Images" or choose "New Images" in the green search box. When you choose "New Images" your search results are restricted to images that were uploaded within the last couple months.
- Use +yellow -flower to locate a photo with with
yellow in it, but not a yellow flower.
- Entering yellow flower will locate photos with
both words, then either word.
- You do not need to enter +yellow +flower because our search by default only shows you results with both words, so it's not needed
- Use "Show Me" pull-down menu to sort your results in different ways
- Think of alternate ways to describe what you are looking for: if you enter "happiness" and don't find what you need, try "happy" or "happy family" etc.
- Try word variations like adding "ing" ("smile" or "smiling")
- Use MORE words to refine your search if needed, such as: happy boy
at beach or corporate teamwork business - or use LESS words if you are not getting enough results
- You can enter photo ID in the search field if you
know the photo's ID number
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