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Common mistakes when keywording     posted on 9th of january, 2008

I will continue with providing tips and examples from my hands-on experience with your images. Beware, here I come, I have my grades prepared and they rank from one to ten. I will proceed as announced also adding other experiences I came across in my ramblings through the site. Today – I feel over-teacherly here :P – we are going to discuss about: why does my image and the keywords attached have very little in common? Pay attention as this has serious consequences for your portfolios and accounts. Unfortunately for you.......the following cases are considered serious offenses and punished accordingly.

Most common mistake – abuse the auto-populate function. Well, here I've seen some very paradoxical cases. We all love copy paste....and Dreamstime makes it even easier....

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Keywording is obviously a black art. I struggle to find 10 words for a lot of my shots. Maybe I should read others for inspiration. For me a door is a door,colour, material,location. - posted by Lindsayg on May 09, 2008
Hi Fleyeing. :) It happens that I spend 15 min too thinking about possible keywords for an image. I do have the itch to provide conceptual words but as far as I could see, people have different visions about the same image. My vision may not coincide with theirs. And as I once put it, you do not want to hang the image in your dining room, you want to sell it. No point overloading it with words you feel only you could think of. I am referring to interpretative, highly subjective words. Writing what the image could be used for should happen somewhere in the description. Exotic and tropical locations can bear the keywords tourism, touristic if you think of association such as "exotic touristic location". If I designed a brochure for a traveling agency, I guess I would look for such a combination and pray to find a calm beach with crystal blue water, bordered by palm trees. But this is my opinion of course. I suppose one of my puzzling examples would be: image with houses and words such as ... More) - posted by Tangie on February 14, 2008
You really made me scared ;-) I almost never look for "inspiration" but sometimes I wonder how far the gray zone goes as to conceptual and intention keywords. You can be very strict and limit yourself to what's there is to see on the shot, but often you have to think designer, and imagine how he can use the shot. I really have a problem with tourism, travel, and the like... Obviously, a tropical nature shot has been taken while traveling, and it might do well in a travel brochure. But does it mean that you can included the tag "tourism" and "travel"? Sometimes I spend 15 minutes tagging a shot... wondering how far to stretch the "conceptual", "maybe" or "good for". - posted by Fleyeing on February 13, 2008

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Carmen Pietraru (Tangie)
Bucuresti, RO

I am one of Dreamstime's Quality Assurance and Customer Support. My area of expertise involves foreign languages, words, communication and interpersonal skills.

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