Keywording for stock - DPChallenge Forums

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/29/2006 10:22:38 PM · #1

What are you using ? What are your tips or secrets for doing it efficiently and quickly ?

What's the best software you've found for painless annotation ?

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

01/29/2006 10:33:39 PM · #2

I put it into the Photoshop info fields ... the description and keyword fields are sometimes parsed by the upload process, depending on the site. I'll save the Info data so I can paste it into similar images.

If you have to do it manualy online, I've heard of people keeping a browser window open with an online thesaurus open. I don't try an overdo it though.

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

01/30/2006 08:22:35 AM · #3

I was hoping to find something a bit faster than typing every keyword in to photoshop for each image. Even with the templates it'll take a whole lot of time.

Looking quickly over my archives and after throwing away the obviously bad, I've got 11,500 shots from 2005, and about 4 years total worth of images to consider.

That's quite a lot of typing in photoshop - and yes, I'm sure I won't be doing all of those images, but it does give some sense of scale to the problem.

Message edited by author 2006-01-30 08:22:52.

Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

01/30/2006 11:24:38 AM · #4

I use Photoshop but I don't type it all in.

I use Browser, create sets of keywords and then batch apply them to all images that share the set.

Some images get several sets applied.

It's still not ideal but it's quicker than doing it fully manually.

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

01/30/2006 04:57:52 PM · #5

Originally posted by Kavey:

I've done that too. I'm wondering about some of the third party applications that exist to do this more quickly and if any of them are effective or not.

Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

01/30/2006 05:02:34 PM · #6

Let me know if you find one coz it certainly isn't ideal...

ButterflySis

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

01/30/2006 06:43:24 PM · #7

I use PS CS. I got to "File Info" (instead of using the fields located in the browser) and enter all my info there. If I have a lot of similar images, I'll save the info as a template. When I click "OK" and the window closes, I select all the similar images and go to "Append..." or "Replace Metadata" on the menu in the browser. (I think it's under Edit, but can't remember. You'll see it.) It then attaches that template/information to all of those images.

I have an HP Media Center computer as well and it has a program to enter keywords and things but it doesn't go by IPTC so the info I enter in PS doesn't show up in the HP program...so I don't use it in-depth keywording. Maybe just one word so I can find something quickly.

Does ACDC (spelling?) work with IPTC metadata, does anyone know?

dacrazyrn

Nikon D300

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

01/30/2006 06:51:03 PM · #8

I conto to use iView MediaPro. Am actually in the process of setting up (many) different text files that I can apply to each photo through iView. generic files like flower-then petal, stamen, leaf and all that are within the file to apply.
It also has a batch annotate command also, that I select the group/set I just shot and then start typing in the keywords. I think the file part may end up being faster and more cmplete...when I finish it.