Hi guys,
I have a portfolio of about 1000 pictures and I would like to upload these to Bigstockphoto.com but honestly it is a pain in the ass. The keywording system etc. keeps ennoying me. Also can you only submit 15 a day?
Any advice on the tiresome process at BigStock?
Cheers!
Hi guys,
I have a portfolio of about 1000 pictures and I would like to upload these to Bigstockphoto.com but honestly it is a pain in the ass. The keywording system etc. keeps ennoying me. Also can you only submit 15 a day?
Any advice on the tiresome process at BigStock?
Cheers!
I've stopped uploading to BigStock. My beef is the 7 needed keywords to describe something. I find it too much extra work for the money.
If you upload images using FTP and you have IPTC data on all your images, than I don't know why you find it tiresome to upload there? BigStock even chooses categories for you automatically, and you just have to check if they are OK.
You will be thanking BigStockPhoto for their upload system after you try uploading to IStock
Also, I am an experienced submitter, with portfolios on all the big 5
Categories are automatic on BigStock,Really? Is it a new feature? I don't remember that... Or are you making a confusion with CanStockPhoto?
Categories are automatic on BigStock,Really? Is it a new feature? I don't remember that... Or are you making a confusion with CanStockPhoto?
Categories are automatic on BigStock,Really? Is it a new feature? I don't remember that... Or are you making a confusion with CanStockPhoto?
What it does impede are relevant keywords! There are plenty of holes in that system where the word that describes the subject of your photo is not available to use! >:(
Hi guys,
I have a portfolio of about 1000 pictures and I would like to upload these to Bigstockphoto.com but honestly it is a pain in the ass. The keywording system etc. keeps ennoying me. Also can you only submit 15 a day?
Any advice on the tiresome process at BigStock?
Cheers!
I've stopped uploading to BigStock. My beef is the 7 needed keywords to describe something. I find it too much extra work for the money.
You mean seven WORDS to describe your image. I find that to be absolutely simple. A big round red apple sitting on the table. Whoops ..... I could have quit two words ago.
-Larry
Hi guys,I've stopped uploading to BigStock. My beef is the 7 needed keywords to describe something. I find it too much extra work for the money.
I have a portfolio of about 1000 pictures and I would like to upload these to Bigstockphoto.com but honestly it is a pain in the ass. The keywording system etc. keeps ennoying me. Also can you only submit 15 a day?
Any advice on the tiresome process at BigStock?
Cheers!
You mean seven WORDS to describe your image. I find that to be absolutely simple. A big round red apple sitting on the table. Whoops ..... I could have quit two words ago.
-Larry
Sure Larry, I guess we could write an entire novel based on the caption but it is just a Red Apple after all, the fact it is on a table should be infinitely obvious to the viewer who found it by searching on "red, apple, table" which were all keywords that were assigned to the image. Having to pad a caption to satisfy a 7 word rule, in my opinion, is a waste of time. Writing 7 works for 10,000 images is 70,000 words, a good size novel.
Peter
With BigStock when someone searches using a keyword and the word is in the title, description, and the keyword list, it will be the first found with the search. If used only once in the keyword list it will come up further back in the search.
So the description helps you sell your image.
-Larry
I think that in time, as other microstocks get smarter about keywording and searching, they'll evolve systems that will leave IS and their "controlled vocabulary" standing in the dust.
How do you see the non Getty sites building out effective and contextual multilingual search unless they ultimately build their databases around a hierarchy based on a structured vocabulary ?A tough problem and I'm no expert. But I think some degree of 'structure' can be achieved without the rigid sort of 'control' IS is trying to enforce. Hnest contributors are by far the best source of keywords because they're motivated and they know their subjects. But the microstocks need ways to weed out the junk dumped into their system by contributors who don't play fair.
keyword | US | PT | DE | FR | IT | ES |
sudoku | 217 | 305 | 2195 | 24 | 217 | 217 |
africa/afrika/afrique | 63015 | 63015 | 17193 | 75486 | 75486 | 63015 |
internet | 143706 | 143706 | 143902 | 143979 | 192829 | 143706 |
airport/aeroporto/flughafen/aeroport/aeropuerto | 12571 | 12571 | 12571 | 252 | 12571 | 1556 |
keyword | US | PT | DE | FR | IT | ES |
sudoku | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 |
africa/afrika/afrique | 49750 | 49750(*) | 49750 | 49750 | 49750 | 49750 |
internet | 61807 | 61807 | 61807(+) | 61807 | 61807 | 61807 |
airport/aeroporto/flughafen/aeroport/aeropuerto | 11691 | 11691 | 11691(*) | 11691 | 11691 | 11691 |
keyword | US | PT | DE | FR | IT | ES |
sudoku | 101 | 88 | 88 | 89 | 88 | 88 |
africa/afrika/afrique | 80926 | 80888 | 79253 | 11450 | 34526 | 79414 |
internet | 112699 | 112789 | 112310 | 78844 | 105065 | 112788 |
airport/aeroporto/flughafen/aeroport/aeropuerto | 14260 | 14268 | 14425 | 10419 | 11698 | 14271 |