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How to Keyword Your Images Successfully for AP Images

Stock House Thursday: AP Images After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back and this week I will check out how AP Images handles keywords. These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end.  … Continue reading

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How to Keyword Your Images and Video for Pond5

Stock House Thursday: Pond5.com Following up last week’s analysis of MasterFile.com I will now take an in depth look at how Pond5.com handles keywords. These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the end.  This is not … Continue reading

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Best Practices for Keywording Your Images at PhotoShelter

Stock House Thursdays: PhotoShelter.com Following up last week’s analysis of NationalGeographicStock.com I will now take an in depth look at how handles PhotoShelter.com keywords. These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the … Continue reading

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Image keywording and Image Search at Dreamstime.com

Stock House Thursdays: Dreamstime Following up last week’s analysis of AgeFotoStock.com, I will now take an in depth look at how Dreamstime.com handles keywords. These aren’t really “reviews,” in that they will have no thumbs up or down at the … Continue reading

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How AgeFotoStock.com Handles Keywords

Stock House Thursdays: AgeFotoStock.com Following up last week’s analysis of Alamy, I will now take an in depth look at how AgeFotoStock handles keywords. First, a quick introduction to how I am going about this process: I am not choosing … Continue reading

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Image Keywording for Alamy.com

Stock House Thursday: Alamy.com Following up last week’s analysis of 123rf, I will now take an in depth look at how Alamy handles keywords. First, a quick introduction to how I am going about this process: I am not choosing … Continue reading

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Image Keywording for 123rf.com

Stock House Thursdays: 123rf.com Following up last week’s analysis of Shutterstock, I will now take an in depth look at how 123rf.com handles keywords. First, a quick introduction to how I am going about this process: I am not choosing … Continue reading

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Why do Photographers Hate Keywording Their Images?

It’s a valid question, considering how much most photographers complain about doing their keywording. I think there are three basic reasons: Photographers are visual people, words may not come easily to them or they simply don’t enjoy working with words. … Continue reading

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The Top 10 Keywording Mistakes that Photographers Make

#10.  Not using the keyword nobody if there are no people in the image. #9.  Forgetting to keyword color image or black and white image. #8.  Forgetting to use colour and every other British spelling variant of American English. #7.  … Continue reading

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The Stock Industry did NOT Eat Itself

The Stock Photography Industry is Changing, Not Dying Well, three months have passed since the buzz surrounding the article by Betsy Reid in BJP about how the stock industry ate itself.  I was disappointed that it wasn’t until the very … Continue reading

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