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Download Batch of Photographs

  • 17-04-2011 8:08pm
    #1
    The Bobster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭


    Hi I am making a photo mosaic maker for my final year project in computing and I am finding it quite hard to find somewhere to download a large number of photographs in one go. I can find plenty places to download them individually but as I will need around 1000 at least that would take some time. I have been able to find a large collection of beer mats and then a large collection of paintings but I really want a collection of photographs. Just wondering if there is anywhere that anybody knows where I can download about 1000 photographs preferably of nature but that isn't too important. They have to be jpegs. Apologize if this isn't the right place to post this but any help would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    Have you considered copyright? The fact that downloading and using someone else's photographs is a breach of copyright?

    You can't just go downloading images (unless they are released under license or creative commons), without the permission of the photographer(s).


  • #3
    alexlyons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭alexlyons


    are you willing to pay for them?


  • #4
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Paulw wrote: »
    Have you considered copyright? The fact that downloading and using someone else's photographs is a breach of copyright?

    You can't just go downloading images (unless they are released under license or creative commons), without the permission of the photographer(s).
    alexlyons wrote: »
    are you willing to pay for them?

    +1

    tho i believe there is some laxness on this if for educational purposes...possibly? provided you credit the tog... maybe i'm well off


  • #5
    The Bobster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭The Bobster


    No I wouldn't be able to pay for them. I found a good few places that allow you to use there photos for free as long as you mention them except nowhere that you can download a big group of them in one go. Also I won't be using these for any commercial use. It is just really to be able to test and demonstrate the software that I am designing.


  • #6
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    The Bobster wrote: »
    Also I won't be using these for any commercial use. It is just really to be able to test and demonstrate the software that I am designing.

    You obviously don't understand copyright. It includes making copies or adaptations of the original work without the expressed permission of the copyright holder.

    So, even you just using them to test/demonstrate is a breach of copyright, unless you have permission to do so.

    How would you feel if someone takes what you design and uses it for their own purposes (assuming you're not making freeware)?


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  • #7
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=landscape&s=int&l=cc&ss=2&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1&m=tags

    Will get you all the flickr content with 'landscape' as a tag and (rather crucially) creative commons licensed. The specific details of the license might vary (ie, some of them are non-commercial, some require attribution, some require that you do not change the image etc etc) but its a start.

    Then sign up for a flickr API license key and going nuts. Build in flickr integration into your project for brownie points.


  • #8
    The Bobster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭The Bobster


    DaireQuinlan wrote: »
    http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=landscape&s=int&l=cc&ss=2&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1&m=tags

    Will get you all the flickr content with 'landscape' as a tag and (rather crucially) creative commons licensed. The specific details of the license might vary (ie, some of them are non-commercial, some require attribution, some require that you do not change the image etc etc) but its a start.

    Then sign up for a flickr API license key and going nuts. Build in flickr integration into your project for brownie points.

    Thanks for the tip. I didn't think about flickr. I found a program that allows you to search for and mass download images from flickr. Also I was actually thinking of having a feature that did allow my programme to use photos directly from flickr but things are a bit behind schedule to say the least. Thanks for the help


  • #9
    PureRGB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭PureRGB


    The Bobster wrote: »
    Hi I am making a photo mosaic maker for my final year project in computing and I am finding it quite hard to find somewhere to download a large number of photographs in one go. I can find plenty places to download them individually but as I will need around 1000 at least that would take some time. I have been able to find a large collection of beer mats and then a large collection of paintings but I really want a collection of photographs. Just wondering if there is anywhere that anybody knows where I can download about 1000 photographs preferably of nature but that isn't too important. They have to be jpegs. Apologize if this isn't the right place to post this but any help would be greatly appreciated.


    Hi Bobster - there are many large and typically free (for academic research purposes at least) datasets for image processing research. For example just google Yale, FERET, BioID face detection datasets


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There's a firefox add-on that you can get that allows you to go to forums and batch download from threads. You can download every image on a single page, or you can set it to batch download only images from whatever pages you specify, or just take every image from the thread.


    Now, I can't for the life of me remember the name of the add-on, so if you find it please let me know, but I do know it exists. I used to have a wrestling related forum and it was based on photographs of merchandise. In order to get copies of everyone's photos (incase anything happened the site) I used this to tear the photos from all the threads people had made.

    I remember doing searches for "Batch Image Downloader" when I was looking for it again, but I didn't find it. I think the name could be something like that, though. I downloaded thousands of photos in a few minutes with it (and it did all the work for me, of course).

    You just specify a downlaod folder and away you go. You could also set it to number the photos in order they're downloaded.


    Then you just have to find a forum that has a load of nature photographs collaborated in one thread and steal them all. As you can see from above comments, though, photographers take their work seriously (and rightly so) so as long as you don't try to make money off them or use them in any other ways except to develop your software I'd say you'd be laughing.


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