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Weblog Google Operating System points out a new search option in Google Image Search that filters images by color. Color search isn’t available as an operator yet, but a simple URL hack will do the trick.

To start searching Google by image color, all you have to do is append &imgcolor=colorname to the URL of a Google Image Search—where colorname is replaced by one of a number of colors of your choice. So, for example, your search URLs might look like this:

http://images.google.com/images?q=cat&hl=en&imgcolor=green

This isn’t the first time a search engine has added support for searching by color, of course. Previously mentioned apps like Colr Pickr, Multicolr, and Yotophoto all aim to do the same, but they’re each more specialized, covering only Flickr pics (the first two) and stock photos (the last). It’s nice to have this functionality built into Google.

Wrapr is an interactive panoramic image viewer where you can view cool panoramic images. It pulls panoramic images from Flickr and wraps them into a panorama to give you a full 360 degrees live viewing experience.

You can browse images from different Flickr groups organized in a tag cloud. Clicking the image will load the interactive panoramic view, you can then rotate the view to any direction you want, up, down, right or left, zoom in and zoom out and view image in full screen.

Additionally there is an embedding option that lets you embed panoramic images on your website or blog.

Features:

• View interactive panoramic images in 360 degrees
• Browse through hundreds of images, rotate them around, zoom in and out, view in full screen.
• Images are pulled from Flickr panoramic images group.
• Embedding supported.
• Free and no registration

Visit: www.wrapr.org

Decrease your bandwidth usage and save yourself some editing time with Smush.it, a web-based image optimization service.

Although designed with web site optimization in mind, Smush.it doesn’t discriminate. Dump a bunch of images in, and smush.it shaves them down. The service strips metadata and recompresses the images to decrease the file size, while its compression algorithm does an excellent job preserving image quality with little to no visible artifacts.

Smush.it supports bulk upload, and can also pull images directly from a site. It also has plug-ins for both Firefox and the Wordpress blogging platform. If disk size isn’t so much an issue as the dimensions of the image, check out two great programs we’ve reviewed for some quick and dirty cropping: InfranView and, my personal favorite bulk cropping tool, JPegCrops. The web-based service and extensions are free, no sign-up or registration required.

Visit: Smush.it