Myself and another IS member would much appreciate the advice of this community. We have these initial questions about how best to prepare our portfolios for potential independence.

As far as we can work out it seems best to prep everything to a set of common standards. These are the questions we have so far:

Obviously you'd need to prep your files according to the lowest common factor, e.g. if some major agency accepts only 30 keywords, then you wouldn't want to stick more than that in your exifs.

1. What's the colourspace used by indies, sRGB, AdobeRGB? Reasons?

2. What's the keyword limit?

3. What's the safe limit for image titles and image descriptions?

4. Do other agencies have completely dumb search engines, i.e. is it necessary to insert various forms of the same keyword e.g. "running, runs, ran" and "apple, apples"?

Any advice appreciated. Lets keep this one friendly.