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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: melastmohican on April 24, 2009, 13:33

Title: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: melastmohican on April 24, 2009, 13:33

I must be some new rejection trend since they made  article (http://submit.shutterstock.com/newsletter/137/article1.html) about it. When I got this rejection it was clear that reviewer was taking IPTC caption as a title.

http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/pdf/IPTC_mapped_fields.pdf (http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/pdf/IPTC_mapped_fields.pdf)

Title: Re: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: Snufkin on April 24, 2009, 13:48

And how about this one:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-9463408-olympus-digital-camera.html
 ;D

Title: Re: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: melastmohican on April 24, 2009, 13:52

I think SS messed up with IPTC meta data importer :-) I do not think somebody would deliberately put this info in title. It a software bug.

Title: Re: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: travelstock on April 24, 2009, 18:59

There's plenty of pics with that title - by default Olympus cameras have that placed in caption - I'm sure that some of mine still have it - sometimes you miss the title when going through big batches of images.

Title: Re: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: null on April 24, 2009, 22:37

Shutterstock is the only site that treats the caption as a title, and ignores the title. The caption is a long description, so sometimes they are mad about it being too long. They should just treat the title as title like it's done on all other sites. A caption is a long multiline text field, and a title is a one line field where people put the essentials, mostly under 30 symbols.

Title: Re: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: Dreamframer on April 25, 2009, 06:55

Quote from: FlemishDreams on April 24, 2009, 22:37

Shutterstock is the only site that treats the caption as a title, and ignores the title. The caption is a long description, so sometimes they are mad about it being too long. They should just treat the title as title like it's done on all other sites. A caption is a long multiline text field, and a title is a one line field where people put the essentials, mostly under 30 symbols.

123rf is another agency that treats descriptions as titles. But I almost never write more than 7-8 words in description field, so I never had problems with that.

Title: Re: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: astrocady on April 25, 2009, 09:30

Quote from: Tom on April 24, 2009, 13:48

And how about this one:
[url]http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-9463408-olympus-digital-camera.html[/url]
 ;D

I was looking at Cora Reed's website yesterday and I noticed a lot of her pictures had Olympus Digital Camera as titles (showed on mouseover with firefox), so maybe it's something weird that Olympus does.

Edit:  I posted this before I saw holgs message  :'(

Title: Re: Titles may not contain camera name, web addresses, or other unnecessary info
Post by: corareed on April 28, 2009, 12:11

Quote from: astrocady on April 25, 2009, 09:30

Quote from: Tom on April 24, 2009, 13:48

And how about this one:
[url]http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-9463408-olympus-digital-camera.html[/url]
 ;D

I was looking at Cora Reed's website yesterday and I noticed a lot of her pictures had Olympus Digital Camera as titles (showed on mouseover with firefox), so maybe it's something weird that Olympus does.

Edit:  I posted this before I saw holgs message  :'(

Yeah, I am trying to correct that issue in lightroom with presets.  It's annoying.