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Recomendations to outsource keywording
Sean Locke Photography:
Look, none of us here are going to pay you to keyword or upload our images, so you might as well just cut it out.
Jo Ann Snover:
I'm curious to know if anyone here is actually using (or has used) a keywording service and if so, what their opinion is of the quality of work done. For the OP, based on his IS portfolio, it seems the type of work where there is some reasonable chance of a service being able to do a good job. Mostly studio shots so what you see in the image is all you have to write. Although they just guess model ages/ethnicity based on looks?
With shots of places or specific technical areas (medical, dental, industrial, etc.) it isn't clear to me how any keywording service can do the work. They can't know, and if they guess wrong, checking and correcting would seem to be nearly as much work as doing it in the first place.
Given that the keywords are the most important thing after the image quality in getting sales, isn't it a tough thing to outsource?
Sorry I can't help with a recommendation as I haven't ever used a service
RT:
--- Quote from: jsnover on December 07, 2011, 12:04 ---I'm curious to know if anyone here is actually using (or has used) a keywording service and if so, what their opinion is of the quality of work done.
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See my reply to this thread http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-photography-discussion/would-you-hire-a-company-to-keyword-and-upload-your-images/msg231731/
Short answer - If you can speak English do it yourself.
Jo Ann Snover:
Your experience suggested failure at a much more basic level than even the issues I thought would be problematic :)
luissantos84:
--- Quote from: sjlocke on December 07, 2011, 10:44 ---Look, none of us here are going to pay you to keyword or upload our images, so you might as well just cut it out.
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just got into the forum today and I seeing keywords everywhere ;D
and somebody thinks that Alvarez needs CS help ;D
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