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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: CofkoCof on October 02, 2008, 11:59
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Online application for keywording. Can be used for other agencies also but is most suited for IS:
http://www.deepmeta.com/Tools/Wizard/
IS topic about it:
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=75864&page=1
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Mostly useless for my type of photos (nature, landscape) . A lot of very technical categories (composition, type of focus, light type) which can be used almost for any type of photo so it's just spamming. Probably useful for illustrators and designers who create sets of objects with different layout or colors.
Yuri Arcurs got much better stuff here: http://arcurs.com/keywording/
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It isn't "spamming" if it applies to the image.
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It added word "image" to results. It can apply to almost anything and how it would help a search engine to find relevant file?
Can you tell how many results would this set of keywords generate: "Image, Horizontal, Color Image, Nobody, Summer, Outdoors, Landscape, Non-Urban Scene"? Adding them will make no difference I think.
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"image" could help someone who might not be looking for a vector and couldn't check off the box. Same for "horizontal" and such. Yes, there are options in "advanced search", but some buyers may have Getty's workflow in mind, as do the keyword inspectors.
And it still isn't spam if it applies.
You don't use a bunch of those generic-ish words at the same time. You use them like:
"fishing, dock, summer, outdoors"
or
"horizontal, nobody, pumpkin"
etc...
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I usually do not keyword for any specific agency so I prefer specific keywords over generic ones. I would rather keep only "pumpkin" and get rid of generic ones. More over some of this generic ones like "horizontal" can be auto generated (width > height). Soon every site might have face recognition software which may tell if there are people present :-)
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I use horizontal, macro, outdoors and other such words. If IS's CV have them, I can only believe they are acceptable, if coherent with the photo.
Recently I had some images wikied at IS and, apart from removing valid keywords and some stretches, they had "nobody" or "focus on foreground" added. I never thought of the latter, but "nobody" in fact can be useful. Try to search "stethoscope isolated on white" and you see tons of pages of nurses and doctors before you find a photo of a stethoscope only.
Yes, I think I will start using "nobody" more often. I hope it helps.
Regards,
Adelaide
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I usually do not keyword for any specific agency so I prefer specific keywords over generic ones. I would rather keep only "pumpkin" and get rid of generic ones. More over some of this generic ones like "horizontal" can be auto generated (width > height). Soon every site might have face recognition software which may tell if there are people present :-)
You can do whatever you want. Doesn't mean that they won't get added at IS...
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Looks interesting, but I'm a Mac user :)
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Looks interesting, but I'm a Mac user :)
Keyowording is done on the web page so I think you should be ok :D
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wow, it looks like he put a lot of work into that!
His deepmeta program is also very usefull.