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I'm not a programmer, but I see an opportunity here:

Go to istockphoto.com - this is a site where you can buy images for use in any type of publication, advertising etc.

The opportunity I see would be to offer to write software which indexes their entire collection by color.

Then when someone wants to buy an image for a publication they could put their colors in and have istockphoto only show them images which fit the color palette.

This would save designers a ton of time.



iStockPhoto already has a "search by color" feature which does pretty much what you're suggesting. http://screensnapr.com/v/gTjWCw.png


sorry, that must be new then. It has been a little while since I logged in there.


Sorry in advance as I'm not trying to make you feel stupid but.. I used to use that feature a lot before they were acquired by Getty (and their prices got so ridiculous I stopped using them.) So at least six years ago.




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