Find Images by Exact Dimensions, Make Wallpaper Search a Breeze [Google School]
Note: 6 of this post’s 11 links are now broken — mostly dead 2008–2013 feed-syndication infrastructure (FeedBurner, Gawker, AOL’s old blog network, Pheedo, Yahoo Pipes). Left as originally published.
Just need to devise a Python script to automate this for Windows now :)
Everyone knows that Google Image Search sports a drop-down menu for filtering results by small, medium, large, and extra large sizes, but if you’re looking for the perfect wallpaper, for example, the imagesize operator is even better.
Weblog Design Live uncovers the undocumented search operator (that’s also new to us) and demonstrates how to use it. Just use the imagesize operator followed by the WidthXHeight in pixels, like so:
Here’s an example: [imagesize:640x480 muffin] finds 640px x 480px images related to muffins.
As the post points out, the imagesize operator is perfect for finding wallpapers that are the perfect fit for your screen.
Find Images that Have a Certain Size [Google Operating System]