Permalink24 June 2008 at 09:46 by Pippa Greig
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© Photodisc Annotating your images in line with our requirements is essential if you want to maximise the sales potential of your images. If you submit regularly to us, you might be interested in some new keywording software called Image Keyworder which has been developed by keywording specialists OnAsia.
The Windows-based Image Keyworder software now offers a fully customized “Alamy mode” for contributors. In Alamy Mode the program allows you to annotate metadata fields which have been tailored to precisely match our submission requirements.
It should also help you work faster. Groups of images can be annotated in batches, templates can be created and saved for similar image types and keywords can be selectively added and removed from sets of images.
The software comes bundled with a thesaurus comprising over 40,000 terms. Several relevant terms can be added to your images with a single click, making it much easier and faster than keywording manually. If you can’t find a term in the thesaurus, you can also click to suggest it for inclusion as well as manually adding terms. OnAsia’s keywording team is also regularly updating and expanding the thesaurus.
Image Keyworder has an Alamy Export function that enables you to produce a spreadsheet of metadata in line with our requirements. The programme will error check your export and let you know if you have missed any of our required fields, ensuring you have error free submissions.
Each time you have a batch of at least 50 images which have passed QC (in the “Prepare for Sale" section of Manage images) you can send the spreadsheet to the Image Management team to be applied.
Please do remember that although Image Keyworder is saving metadata directly to your images, we do not currently extract metadata directly from images submitted this way. You MUST send us the Excel spreadsheet created by Image Keyworder’s Alamy Export wizard.
A free 30 day fully functioning trial is available, after which you can purchase a license for
just US$79.99, including a 12 month renewable subscription to the Image Keyworder thesaurus valued at US$39.99.
For more information and to download the software visit the Image Keyworder website.
Please note that for specific help regarding this software you should contact Image Keyworder support.
We would like to stress that Alamy does not benefit financially from the sale of Image Keyworder.
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