Moodstream by Getty Images

Mar 23, 2009 by Jennifer Farley    2 Comments    Posted under: Blog, Design Resources

I came across Moodstream yesterday (via the Photoshop Support blog) and was really impressed with it. The site is owned by Getty images and is a really imaginative way to showcase their images and videos.

The idea is that you select a mood and the “machine” will return suggestions which you can save to a mood board. Images and footage are displayed full-screen size and are grainy but almost seem to look cooler for the grain.

On the mood interface you can choose Excite, Simplify, Inspire and fine tune with sliders for Warm/Cool, Happy/Sad, Nostalgic/Contemporary and more. I spent quite a bit of time on the site and enjoyed playing with it and saved images that I liked. A very nice site.

Have any of you used this Moodstream? What did you think?

Tags: Design Resources, Stock Images

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  Trevor Collins April 7, 2009 at 5:16 pm

  Hi,

  I have not used the mood swing tool but it sounds really clever. The one reservation that I have is who decides what is a happy / sad or warm / cool. Is it some clever peace of software and if so how dose it determine each emotion or some poor employee who has to trawl through all photos grading them!
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  Jennifer Farley April 9, 2009 at 8:58 am

  Hi Trevor
  Yeah it’s a good point about what is happy or sad. I’d say the warm/cool would b which based on the colours used in the image and they probably have sophisticated image software to detect faces. Maybe it can detect happy/smiley faces? Just guessing though.