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2checkingout:
Hi everybody, fairly new to stock photography and wondering what you boys and girls do as far as a workflow for getting photos ready, keywording and then submitting to the likes of Shutterstock, AdobeStock etc.
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: 2checkingout on March 08, 2019, 16:35 ---Hi everybody, fairly new to stock photography and wondering what you boys and girls do as far as a workflow for getting photos ready, keywording and then submitting to the likes of Shutterstock, AdobeStock etc.
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I'm positive there are people who have better methods, but just to answer. Once I have the editing and culling finished, ready to upload, renamed and whatever else.
1) I add keywords to every image, batch add if they are similar, then go to SS and use the keywording tool to find words I might have missed. Paste that into everything. If single image same. Important always have the best keywords Title and Description embeded in the files.
2) Upload in batches depending on the site.
3) check online for errors and data
4) Wait
Alternate plan B - Use Stock Submitter and send everything to everyplace, all at once, ftp.
#2 alternate plan, Upload Editorial to SS. Then Upload Illustrations to AS. ftp Video to Pond5 Different agencies get different files. Alamy doesn't get the same as Microstock. Some that go to Alamy, never go to Microstock.
Have fun!
5) Move the files from the folder "ready to upload" (often with agency folders below) to Uploaded to all in case some day I want to add someplace or upload.
6) Back up to My Micro 2019 on the external drive.
Watch the money roll in. ;D
Sometimes I have a folder for rejections, that I can look back at and decide if they should be re-evaluated, uploaded again, or left in the rejection folder.
I also have a folder Not Uploaded, On Hold and Microstock Ideas, which means I'm probably going to re-shot because I rejected them myself.
2checkingout:
Thanks, Uncle Pete
trabuco:
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 08, 2019, 16:50 ---
--- Quote from: 2checkingout on March 08, 2019, 16:35 ---Hi everybody, fairly new to stock photography and wondering what you boys and girls do as far as a workflow for getting photos ready, keywording and then submitting to the likes of Shutterstock, AdobeStock etc.
--- End quote ---
I'm positive there are people who have better methods, but just to answer. Once I have the editing and culling finished, ready to upload, renamed and whatever else.
1) I add keywords to every image, batch add if they are similar, then go to SS and use the keywording tool to find words I might have missed. Paste that into everything. If single image same. Important always have the best keywords Title and Description embeded in the files.
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Hi.
Can I ask you why this step? It's not enough to set the titles/descriptions and keywords on the web? I don't use to do it and can see my pictures well indexed (I think so).
Thanks.
Pauws99:
--- Quote from: trabuco on March 09, 2019, 02:31 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 08, 2019, 16:50 ---
--- Quote from: 2checkingout on March 08, 2019, 16:35 ---Hi everybody, fairly new to stock photography and wondering what you boys and girls do as far as a workflow for getting photos ready, keywording and then submitting to the likes of Shutterstock, AdobeStock etc.
--- End quote ---
I'm positive there are people who have better methods, but just to answer. Once I have the editing and culling finished, ready to upload, renamed and whatever else.
1) I add keywords to every image, batch add if they are similar, then go to SS and use the keywording tool to find words I might have missed. Paste that into everything. If single image same. Important always have the best keywords Title and Description embeded in the files.
--- End quote ---
Hi.
Can I ask you why this step? It's not enough to set the titles/descriptions and keywords on the web? I don't use to do it and can see my pictures well indexed (I think so).
Thanks.
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If you include data in the file you don't need to add data every time you load to a different site.
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