How to Do an Image Search on Bing

If you are looking for a picture, maybe to go with an article that you have written for an on-line writer's site, for your blog or some Christmas cards that you are making from home, or even for work purposes, then Bing is the place to look. Though there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of sites that offer catalogues of pictures for your perusal and downloading, many of which are free, Bing does so in a manner that makes your job so much easier. Knowing how to do an image search on Bing, by learning the ins and outs of Bing's image search procedures, will make your image searches extremely easy and more productive in the future.

Once you have found yourself on the Bing home page (www.Bing.com), you will notice some search parameters listed either above the Bing search box, or beside it. These parameters, which are listed under the "Explore" link, include; Images, Videos, Shopping, News, Maps, Travel, and Visual Search. Visual Search is not for finding pictures, it is where your search returns are shown as pictures, instead of links with short explanations, as almost every other search engine provides. In Visual search, search for "laptops", and you will have a series of pictures of different laptops, shown by Bing popularity, brand, size, battery life or expert ratings. However, since you are looking for pictures, select the "Images" link, and you will be taken to Bing's Image Search home page.

On Bing's Image Search home page, you will see some pictures, in amazingly crisp and clear color, displayed in high definition for those of you with high definition monitors or displays. These pictures are the ones that have been shown on the Bing pages for the past day, and can be selected by clicking on one, to show literally thousands to hundreds of thousands of pictures of the same image that you selected. If you click on a picture of the Eiffel Tower, you will be taken to a page with over 319,000 pictures of the Eiffel Tower, all free to download, with no added software downloading required.

If, however, the image that you are looking for has nothing to do with any of the images that are shown on Bing's Image Search home page, then simply type the name of what you are looking for in the search box. As you are typing what you are looking for, Bing provides suggestions that go with what you have typed so far, as links, under the search box. You can select one of the links, or continue typing and select the search icon.

If, for instance, if you needed some pictures of Beagles to put on a birthday card for someone who loves Beagles, simply type "beagle" into the search box, then select the search icon (a small magnifying glass, in an orange box, at the right-hand side of the search box). You will be presented with over 1.7 Million pictures of beagles from which to peruse. You can refine your search to limit your returns, or select the picture that you like the best. Right-click on the picture you like, and you will be shown that picture, along with a link that will take you to where the picture was taken from (like a training manual, personal blog, etc.).

Once you have your picture on the Bing Image Search page selected, right-click on the image, which is at the top of the page. This will make the picture available for copying, emailing or saving. Save the picture to your hard drive, your "My Pictures" file, or wherever you prefer to keep your images. You can email the picture to your friends or loved ones without getting into your mail account, or transfer it to your picture editing program, card making program, etc., for future manipulation, editing and just playing around.

So, there is no more need of searching high and low for that perfect picture. Just enter the Bing Image Search page, and the world will be, literally, at your finger tips!