# Introduction to Viewfinder

Viewfinder is an application designed to help you find great photos for your creative work. You can use Viewfinder to perform a flexible search for photos made available to you by millions of Flickr users.

Viewfinder features include:

- Search for photos on Flickr using text in the photo's description or tags.
- Restricting your search to Creative Commons licensed photos.
- Restricting your search to photos which allow commercial use or allow you to modify or build upon.
- Filtering the results by the size of the largest available version of a photo. For example, you can only show photos that are 1000 pixels or larger on the smallest side.
- Thumbnail view of up to 500 search results.
- Support for Quick Look.
- Double click to download the largest available size.
- One-click to download and set your Desktop Picture.
- Drag and drop into applications such as Pages, Keynote and OmniGraffle.
- Safari-style download manager.

Viewfinder is built for OS X 10.7 Lion and later. You do not require a Flickr account to use Viewfinder.

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