 Kelly S. Andrews |
Organizing Stock Photos I have been marketing my own photos with much success, including regional and national magazine publications. I have been building up a substantial collection of stock photos and am now searching for an appropriate stock agency. I am looking for a good software package to allow me to keyword and organize the photos. I read about one in either one of my photography magazines or on this site, but I haven't been able to find it since. Can any of you stock pros make any recommendations for me? Your replies are much appreciated.
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BetterPhoto Member |
Kelly, I use Extensis portfolio for organizing my own files. But that won't matter to your stock agent. They just want clear reading caption labels and, for that, I use Boyd Norton's "Norton Slide Captioning System".
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Kelly S. Andrews |
Hi Charlie, Thanks so much for your response. As I am all digital, I am looking for the best way to submit large digital files. If I were accepted, would I just burn several CDs? With each file 20-30mb, that would only be about 20-35 per CD. To submit 500, ends up being a whole bunch of CDs. Would I just put the keywords as the title of each file, or add it to the general info tag (in the same area as the EXIF data)? At Fogstock, do you have the capability for people to upload large files via FTP or some similar protocol? Probably each agency has their own preferences. I just want to be prepared. Thanks!
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BetterPhoto Member |
Kelly, Every agency is different. The first step is to get accepted by an agent and you start by submitting up to 200 low resolution files of your best images for review. They may want a cd or proof sheets. From there, you follow their guidelines. At Fogstock, we require 50mb files produced by a camera no less than 8 megapixels. That actually will be changed to 10mp shortly. The industry is demanding it. At Getty, they have switched to digital submissions only and require they are shot with a 12mp camera or better. Keywording is done by the agency. This is actually a sophisticated process. In the backend of the Fogstock Web site, where keywording takes place, we have about 1000 keywords that are checked and applied to an image. Most agencies do not allow the photographer to upload any images to the site, as they prefer to review for quality, etc. Alamy is one where you do all the work yourself, but I have heard that they are plagued with getting too much bad photography and are starting to get more involved in image editing. Best of luck in your search. Charlie
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Aaron Reyes |
why not use adobe bridge in cs2? I love it. if you have a fast enough computer (probably just enough ram) it's fantastic for viewing and changing metadata/keywords...
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Randall & Kay Branham |
Hi Aaron whats your method in photoshop cs2 for changing metadata/keywords Thanks Randall
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Aaron Reyes |
In photoshop, go to file/fileinfo and then set up the metadata the way you want it. In the top right corner there's an arrow pointing right. Click it and you can save the metadata as a template. You could have many of these all set up for different jobs. You can then load it for each picture, or you can set up an action for it to set the metadata and then save the file as a tiff (or do anything else you wanted). In CS2 (could be in others I can't remember) if you go to file/automate/batch you can have the program run an action to an entire folder or just selected files, and you can even rename them if you want. Using the batch process would be a fast way to run through a folder as long as the metadata is all the same for that folder... alternatively, in adobe bridge, select the files or folders that you want changed, then go to tools/append metadata and it will show you all the metadata templates that you have created. This method would be good if you have to apply a lot of different templates to different files and want to be able to see them as you go. The batch process is nicer in that you can set it and walk away while it does it thing. good luck!! hope I explained it well...
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