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Having difficulties with keywording your images?

Permalink Comments (8)28 March 2008 at 13:04 by Ben Gray
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A Close up of a childs toy letters - Image A85H7E © Photodisc
© Photodisc If you haven’t got the time, motivation, linguistic talents or inspiration to keyword your images then why not get someone else to do it for you?

We appreciate there are many of you that would rather be out with your camera than sitting in front of your computer. However, it doesn’t matter how fantastic your pictures are if they do not have the necessary keywords behind them. Poor keywording means they simply will not be getting the visibility they deserve. Yes, unfortunately the accurate keywording of your images is a necessary evil.

We have been working with external companies that offer keywording services to ensure that they understand the format required for Alamy and the differing importance of our keywording fields. These companies range across different countries, services they offer and of course price, but the good news is they will all give you a discount if you want to use them to get Alamy formatted keywords. The result of a recent audit means we are pleased to recommend the services of all of them.

So why not check out the approved keywording company list and see if they can help you put down your dictionary and pick up your camera?

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  1. 31 March 2008 at 11:47 Pat lam

    I keyworded every pictures correctly long time ago, however I do not know when will be the next step of the Alamy rank comes? Do we have to hire externe company to update our keyword again???

  2. 01 April 2008 at 16:42 Stephen power

    Will these companies work directly on images that we have uploaded? If so, can we trust them with our passwords - or is there a "workaround"?

  3. 01 April 2008 at 19:05 colin paterson

    If you cannot do it how can they ?

  4. 02 April 2008 at 01:47 James Houck

    Does anyone know what something like this costs. I checked all of the UK and USA company websites listed. None of them list the cost. A rough estimate would help.

    Thanks in Advance

  5. 03 April 2008 at 11:19 Ian Murray

    This from one of them:

    "Reviving the deteriorated photographic exposures back to originality!! xxxxx’s creditworthiness is unimpeachable!"

    Sounds like a cross between Mrs Malaprop and George Bush

  6. 09 April 2008 at 13:26 Roman

    Keywording can be replaced with new innovative technologies now. For example our company (Visual-Search) develops visual based engines which can do indexing automatically and do perfect search. We have requests for our solutions from some big photo agencies. It seems to be next step in search engine development.
    What do you think?

  7. 11 April 2008 at 20:44 Paul collis

    Another step in the Alamy Shuffle - Two steps forward, one step back.
    You're now encouraging just the sort of lazy and inaccurate keywording that results in frustration for art buyers an enhanced argument for using an edited stocklibrary.
    I just searched for 'protest San Francisco' and, among other duds that had nothing to do with San Francisco, saw this in the first 20 shots:

    Image #A430H9
    Caption:
    Businesswoman shouting into megaphone pointed at her head

    Keywords:
    37066 San Francisco CA angry arms raised asian asian ethnicity Business businesswoman california color image communication concept conscience copy space cut out front view guilt horizontal humor indian indian ethnicity instructing looking at camera megaphone mouth open one person only women people photography protesting scolding screaming self esteem shouting standing stress studio shot suit waist up woman Young Adult 20 25 20 30 25 30 adult aggravated america american americas amusing anger anxiety apparel arm berating blame business attire business suit business woman businesspeople ca clothes clothing color colour comedy communicating complaining criticizing culpability cut out enterprise ethics executive far eastern female funny gal garment hilarious human human being humour indignant lady mad morality negative space north america objecting one open oriental person pressure pride protestation protester raised raising reprimanding screamer self confidence self respect shrieking silhouette stressful studio tension twenties twenty u s u s a united states upset us usa waist up west coast white space wit women yelling

  8. 28 April 2008 at 18:36 Peter Phipp

    Why are only the keywords in the Comprehensive box shown in the image previews?

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