Choosing the right keywords for your images is one of the main factors that affect your sales. Most photo agencies have millions of images to sell, so your image is a very small fish in a big sea. With some clever keywords you select your photos easily be found by designers, and this will have a positive effect on your income. Every photographer knows that keywording is not very pleasant occupation.
Take your time
Especially when a photo keywording, take your time! This is important, so you might want to do some thinking. Believe me, this saves you time in the future. Think about the theme of the image and how it can be used to select a few keywords that are best used by a person like that image. After deciding on the most important key words, search for synonyms (choose the most common words, add not like those that can not be used by the majority of buyers). One way to find all words that matter to make questions about the pictures and it is answered in a few keywords. The questions: what, who, where? where? Why? how much?. Ask yourself whether the image has a different meaning (and conceptual). For example, a photo of Ice Climber words like “risk” or “threat contained.
Not a typo!
Many photographers are not native speakers of English stock. If this happens, make sure to quote your words, pictures or lost your spelling in the wind. There are many ways that you can check your spelling: you use your word processor built-in Auto-correct option (such as OpenOffice or Microsoft Office) and you can consult a dictionary (can tick from: http:// dictionary. Reference.com /), etc.
Do not forget that words that are written in more ways than one in English (American English versus British English, for example). Let me just a few examples: trousers (UK) – Pants (American), Football (UK) – Football (American), color (UK) – color (American), etc. (for more information about this topic, please visit this page on Wikipedia). In this case, both forms of the word.
How many keywords?
This depends on the conditions of your agency. Most have a limit, 30, 50, 70 or more can be keywords. I think in most cases is 50 words a reasonable time and I hardly use. If your office is not limited number of words, use as much as possible, but keep in mind that some agencies are the images with keywords and other unreasonable disadvantage of the photographer for keyword spamming rejected. So not to abuse. Fewer words are sometimes better if they are good. I often find images with less than 10 keywords ranking first searched.
You may not Tags
Some agencies have a material number of restrictive rules on the use of certain words and they can even close your account if you’re not against the rules. For example, the use of the word teen “, and” naked “(” sexy “, etc.), and is not recommended, unless the model is the statutory retirement age. For more information read the policies of your office.
The use of names
By country, village, town or place name only if the image is representative of the situation. If you have a picture of a dove in Paris is not the word “Paris” as one of your keywords. Of course, if the image of the dove to see the Eiffel Tower in the background, you can use the keyword “Paris.” If you have photos functions as the main theme of a particular plant or animal, you have the title, add the scientific name. Buyers to find the plants or animals are familiar with the names of species, and they will probably find the scientific name.
Plural and singular?
Most sites have photographs search functionality, which makes a picture will come in a search for both singular and plural of a word. You should always check whether this is the case for the agency that your images will be sold. If not, then you should see the word in two forms, only to ensure that your image to be found.
Embed search terms in the image
There are many software options that enable you to grant to key words, description, title, etc. to an image. I want Adobe Photoshop (because I still do other things). In Photoshop, open your image, go to File> File Info and provide the information in the appropriate fields (known as IPTC-information file). You should always have a title, description and keywords for a specific image. This is usually the information requested by most stock agencies. Title, description and keywords are extracted automatically when you upload your picture to the website of the (most) of photo agencies. You will find this useful if you have pictures to upload to many sites as you are just picture a keyword and then again in the keywords automatically each time you entered the picture to a picture agency. With Adobe Photoshop you can also export keywords from a file and then import into another image in order to save time. Not keyword JPEG images in Photoshop, because every time a JPEG file to store the compressed image and artifacts occur. Save the file as a JPEG completed until after the surgery before uploading the image. more information at infostockphoto.com/
More tips
Use keywords like “outside” or “interior” of architectural images, this will help picture researchers.
Keyword groups of photos as it falls into the same category (copy-paste keywords from one image to other similar images). Of course, you must remove any inappropriate words and replace him with another, if necessary.
Do a little research: examination of animals agency you want to try to find a picture similar to the one you have, by their search engine and the keywords of your choice. This is how image buyers to look for a picture, and this will help you to test the significance of the words you want to use.
When images with a quiet, empty space, suitable for vaccination in droping some (such as a text), using keywords such as “copy space”, “copy”, “space”. Designers are always looking for such pictures and words, as they will find buyers.
