In today's scenario when social media sites are widely used and high resolution images are shared. Tagging is an important approach for the retrieval of images in various applications. These are also used to manage personal media data. There are various techniques implemented for the image retrieval such as feature based, histogram based and transformation based but these techniques are not efficient in terms of classification ratio and accuracy. Here in this paper various tag based image technique are discussed so by analyzing the tag based image retrieval techniques a new proposed methodology can be implemented in the future.