  The digital image data is rapidly expanding in quantity and heterogeneity.
The traditional information retrieval techniques does not meet the user's
demand, so there is need to develop an efficient system for content based image
retrieval. Content based image retrieval means retrieval of images from
database on the basis of visual features of image like as color, texture etc.
In our proposed method feature are extracted after applying Phong shading on
input image. Phong shading, flattering out the dull surfaces of the image The
features are extracted using color, texture & edge density methods. Feature
extracted values are used to find the similarity between input query image and
the data base image. It can be measure by the Euclidean distance formula. The
experimental result shows that the proposed approach has a better retrieval
results with phong shading.
