still have great difficulties in making public the recalled mental image. The pictorial reconstruction of the suspect In this paper we present a system for browsing large mugshot databases and creating identikits of photographic quality. has then two major drawbacks: the first one is related to The two functions are interrelated: the available database prothe inherent difficulty of recalling a good mental image vides direct feedback to the user building the identikit and the and the second one to making this description explicit. The identikit itself can be used as an access key to the image datainteraction of the eyewitness with the operator actually base. SpotIt! provides a virtually unlimited set of alternative constructing the identikit represents a delicate point of the features that can be browsed efficiently in the appropriate conprocess. The eyewitness must textualize the visual descriptext, interactive holistic feature modification coupled to syntaction he/she retains, and interact with the artist who transtic access to a feature database, and quantitative, automatic lates the description back to visual data. This requires computation of face similarities, providing real-time feedback good verbal capacity and positive interaction with a skilled of the system which constantly shows the most promising operator. Several systems have already been demonstrated matches to the identikit being built.