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Title: Keywords
Post by: Chico on April 14, 2013, 07:33

I don't know if it was suggested before, but sometimes we have several images using same set of keywords. Can we have some kind of bulk action to assign keywords? Or, if we are doing just a single upload, maybe we can have an option like "choose keyword from images" (see image below). Thanks.

(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9863/14004867.jpg)

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: steheap on April 14, 2013, 08:23

It would be far easier to do this in a program like Lightroom?

Steve

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: Chico on April 14, 2013, 14:21

Quote from: steheap on April 14, 2013, 08:23

It would be far easier to do this in a program like Lightroom?

Steve

Never use it. Works for vectors?

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: steheap on April 14, 2013, 15:40

Sorry - probably not!

Steve

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: klsbear on April 14, 2013, 20:33

One work-around would be to keyword in the Quick Edit view instead of the Edit view.  The keywords show up as a running text box.  You can drag the corner handle or bottom handle to re-size the box to show all the keywords, copy and then just go to the similar image Quick Edit view and paste them in the box.  You'll still want to go into the full edit view to make additional adjustments but it's a good way to quickly copy and paste keywords.

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: Chico on April 15, 2013, 03:38

Quote from: klsbear on April 14, 2013, 20:33

One work-around would be to keyword in the Quick Edit view instead of the Edit view.  The keywords show up as a running text box.  You can drag the corner handle or bottom handle to re-size the box to show all the keywords, copy and then just go to the similar image Quick Edit view and paste them in the box.  You'll still want to go into the full edit view to make additional adjustments but it's a good way to quickly copy and paste keywords.

Nice tip! Thanks.  :D

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: samards on January 07, 2015, 04:54

You might try a little tool that I developed for keywording (multiple selected files), dragging/droping them to filezilla or directly to an agency website: http://stockphototagger.sourceforge.net/ (http://stockphototagger.sourceforge.net/)

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: ArenaCreative on January 07, 2015, 19:42

free version of stocksubmitter does this also...
http://stocksubmitter.com (http://stocksubmitter.com)

as does http://microstockgroup.com/tools/keyword.php (http://microstockgroup.com/tools/keyword.php) then copy/paste

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on January 07, 2015, 20:05

For your own long term sanity, you really want your keywords to be in your image/illustration/media file where possible (PNG doesn't support it, for example, but Illustrator and Photoshop do).

Keywording in Deep Meta, any of the submission tools, or on an agency web site is a bad idea as a general workflow because you'll inevitably end up needing to submit the files somewhere else in the future and then be hunting around for somewhere to copy the keywords from.

Title: Re: Keywords
Post by: ArenaCreative on January 07, 2015, 20:08

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 07, 2015, 20:05

For your own long term sanity, you really want your keywords to be in your image/illustration/media file where possible (PNG doesn't support it, for example, but Illustrator and Photoshop do).

Keywording in Deep Meta, any of the submission tools, or on an agency web site is a bad idea as a general workflow because you'll inevitably end up needing to submit the files somewhere else in the future and then be hunting around for somewhere to copy the keywords from.

embedding them is microstock 101 - this is what the submissions tools that I use do.  You want your metadate written directly into the files.