Dreamstime

Crazy for Keywords

posted on 13th of august, 2009

>As a fairly new user of dreamstime, but a long-time user of stock photography, I wanted to offer some small feedback on keywords. A lack of certain basic keywords can be a huge hindrance to a designer looking for very specific images. Definitely, the more keywords the better!

My biggest struggle on dreamstime has been trying to find ‘isolated’ images. If an image was taken against a white (or any solid) background, I’ve found that often the keyword ‘background’ will be included, but less often the word 'isolated’ will be used. Often I’m looking for an isolated image and I really have to dig to find exactly what I’m looking for.
Photographers -- please use more keywords and the term ‘isolated’ as a keyword if your photo's been taken against a solid background. Not only will it...

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Comments (8)

	Posted by Dentedmedia on August 13, 2009 Thanks everyone! Now I know to search using the terms isolated (and cutout), which makes a lot of sense.
	Posted by Red on August 13, 2009 In the graphic design world of everyday work, production artists who primarily work with photoshop interchange the words cut-out, knock-out and silo. Those interchangeable terms refer to the same technique - making a path around an object and deleting the background (via clipping path or mask). The term silo (for silhouette) has been used this way for many, many years.
	Posted by Bradcalkins on August 13, 2009 Interesting - I've almost never had an isolated shot actually result from a search using the keyword 'isolated'. Or at least not the ones that display results. I'll keep putting isolated in as a keyword, though!