Reverse Image Search
Search with an uploaded image, dragged image, pasted screenshot, or existing indexed item, then choose a strategy and scope to find visually similar, subject-similar, or color-similar images.
Search with an uploaded image, dragged image, pasted screenshot, or existing indexed item, then choose a strategy and scope to find visually similar, subject-similar, or color-similar images.
Reverse image search finds images that look similar to a reference image. You can upload an image, drag one into the app, paste a screenshot, or start from an existing indexed item.
Steps
- Click the Image button in the top-right workspace toolbar to open reverse image search.
- Upload, drag, or paste a reference image.
- Choose a search strategy.
- Set the search scope and maximum result count.
- Start the search and review the results.
Start from Existing Material
When browsing an indexed image, use the similar-image action to search directly from that item. This is convenient when you find one useful image and want more like it.
Choosing a Search Strategy
- Global: general visual similarity.
- Global subject: compares the detected subject, which is useful for clear products, people, or objects.
- Global color: emphasizes color similarity and palette.
- Local keypoints: useful for crops, patterns, partial screenshots, and finding the full image from a small region.
Search Scope
Choose the whole database, selected folders or selected collections. Narrowing the scope can make results more relevant and faster to review. The completed search is retained in the Results sidebar.
Common Cases
- If pasted screenshots are not detected, copy an actual image to the clipboard first.
- If results are too broad, crop the reference image or narrow the scope.
- If a strategy is unavailable, generate or rebuild the corresponding data first.
- If too few images return, check scope and strategy data. Only Local Keypoints exposes a minimum image-similarity slider; lower it when appropriate for that strategy.
RAW search inputs
From 3.13.27, image, reference-face and pose search accept CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, RAF, ORF, RW2 and PEF through file selection, drag-and-drop and file paste. Reading a reference file does not import your library: prepare its matching search data first. Copying a path as text is not the same as copying the image file.
Example Search
The forest reference is searched with Global across a sample library of four landscape photos and identical backups. Eight images return, with the original and its backup first at 100%. These scores describe this example, not a guarantee for other searches.
