Example Using URL Capture Bar!

The URL Capture Bar is a quick and easy way to add a file reference to your fusker collection if you know or have access to the file's URL. In our example we will utilize the Copy Image URL extension to the IE Context Menu to quickly grab the desired URL information. This handy extension was installed along with the Image Surfer Pro application and is tailor made for this application.

Often when searching for images you may not have a specific destination in mind nor be starting from a known thumbnail post or other service. Instead you just want to get an idea of what is available and where it is available. The major search engines are probably everyone's normal starting point

In this example we will look for Nature Wallpaper images. We'll walk through each of the major search engines (Bing, Google, and Yahoo) and show you how to use three very powerful tools installed with Image Surfer Pro:

  • The URL Capture Bar
  • Auto Range Override
  • Copy Image URL

    • Because the result of searches change constantly here we don't link to any of the actual pages used but simply show you screen captures of the screens we found when we did our search.

    Starting Off
    Result of seaching on images for Kate Beckinsale with image we chose highlighted     		Before we start we will activeate both the Image Surfer Pro toolbar extensions by selecting them in the Toolbars submenu of the Settings button from the Image Surfer Pro toolbar button.

    Because the URL Capture Bar is essentially the same as processing a direct image with the Process Webpage button from the Image Surfer Pro toolbar button, we almost always use the Auto Range Override input to control how the URLs we capture are processed.



    Google Search
    Google is probably the best known and most widely used search engine. By almost any definition a Google search for images is the largest server side fusking agen in the world.
    Search Page
    Screen capture of a goolge image search     		Copy Image URL
    Screen capture of right clicking on an image with 'Copy Image URL' option highlighted     		Paste URL to URL Capture Bar
    Screen capture of right clicking on URL Capture Bar with 'Paste' highlighted
    Here we simply used "Wallpaper Nature" as our search. We are looking for nice large images of natural settings - but are open to whatever the search returns. In this case we have clicked on beautiful mountain lake image near the top of our search page. It is important to let the image finish loading... this typically is associated with a sudden change to a crisper image. Prior to that "snap" to crispness, the image shown is a cached version on the Goolge servers. You will also notice a then stripped moving bar at the bottom of the image - indicating it is being loaded. Once the image is fully loaded the URL references the original source image... this is the URL we wish to capture.

    Right clicking on the image and selecting "Copy Image URL" near the bottom of the menu is how we get the actual image URL.     		By right clicking in the URL Capture Bar you can chose paste to insert the URL information into the bar.
    URL Pasted
    Screen capture with Image URL pasted into the URL Capture Bar     		URL Captured
    Screen Capture of image url added to fusker collection and displayed     		After Capturing Several Images
    Screen capture after several images were captured from the google search - zoomed out
    Once the URL is pasted into the URL Capture Bar we can look at the URL and see if it looks like we expect (doesn't point to Google etc.).

    You could also have left clicked in the text box and used Ctrl-V to paste the image URL into the bar.     		Clicking the + button next to the URL entry box processes the URL just as if it were a direct image reference. In this case we have set the Auto Range Override input blank to disable Auto Ranging, so just a single image is added to the collection. The fusker tree shows the basic URL path to the image as it is stored on the "beautifulcoolwallpapers.files.wordpress.com domain and the image itself is shown full size in the browser window. After repeating this same process with several images we found interesting in the Google search you see we have built a small fusker collection which references 6 images stored on 5 different domains. Here we have zoomed out to 25% to show the entire collection.
    Bing Search
    Quickly gaining market share, Bing is probably now the second best known search engine and works for images in a very similar way to Google.
    Search Page
    Screen capture of a Bing image search     		Copy Image URL
    Screen capture of the image captured with the URL Capture Bar and added to the fusker collection     		URL Captured In Fusker Collection
    Screen capture after several images were captured from the bing search - zoomed out
    Again we used "Wallpaper Nature" as our search. We see many of the same images found by Bing as were found by Google. This time we have clicked on a picture of vine covered trees - notice the difference in how Bing displays the selected image in reference to the other images around it. Just as with Google - you want to let Bing finish loading the image before you right click and copy the image URL. We didn't notice Bing having the handy little loading bar at the bottom of the image - but images also seemed to load faster. Pasting the URL into the URL Capture Bar with several of the images we found interesting in our Bing search has brought the collection to 14 images from 12 domains. The collection here is shone zoomed out.
    Yahoo Search
    Though Yahoo search is beginning to fade into the irrelevant past, we thought we would go ahead and include them in the example.
    Search Page
    Screen capture of a Yahoo image search     		Copy Image URL
    Screen capture of the image sequence captured with the URL Capture Bar and added to the fusker collection     		URL Captured In Fusker Collection
    Using Nudge to see if there are more images!
    The Yahoo image search of "Wallpaper Nature" looks similar to Bing. In this case we have already selected an image and pasted the URL into the URL Capture Bar. The interesting thing about this URL is it appears to be part of a numerical sequence.

    When pasted into the URL capture bar we see it ends in what might be an image number. In this case "-213.jpg"... out of curiosity we set the Auto Range Override to the value 213     		The result is the image URL has a numeric fusk automatically applied to the it when it is added to the fusker collection. Note how the file segment is marked with the "+" and indicates a numeric fusk in the file name.

    We were lucky and there were apparently a lot of nature images stored with a three digit number in the file name indicating the image number. Here we have zoomed the display out to 10% in order to show as many of the captured images as possible!     		Note we also had our configuration set to start auto ranging with the number 1. Because of this, images 1 through 213 were referenced by the new file segment. The number 213 was chosen only because it was the number of the image we "liked" from the Yahoo search. We can quickly use the Nudging Tools to check to see if 214 exists. In fact it does and is shown in this screen capture. How many times you want to nudge the numerical fusk before editing the segment and putting a much larger number in is totally up to you.