Using The Web To Identify Art Work




Into Tomorrow Quickies show

Summary: Ron asked: "I'm told that there is a site out there that will identify images. What I want to do is take a picture of an artist's signature on a painting and upload it to some website and have it give me some information about that signature, or find that signature on other works of art."<br>  <br> <br> Ron, to identify images you can use Google Images, it will do generally give you pretty good guesses as to what the image you uploaded may be. <br> <br> We wouldn’t necessarily trust it with signatures, but you may be able to get information from the whole picture and go from there.<br> <br> There are websites like ArtistsSignatures.com that will let you search for an artist’s signature, so if you can get a name from a picture of the whole painting, you may be able to compare the signature manually with one you get from the supposed artist on the image search results.<br> <br> You can definitely try to take a picture of just the signature and see if it’s recognized, just don’t necessarily expect it to be.