Dreamstime

The Nightmares of Navigating Through Dreamstime's Database

posted on 23rd of april, 2013

One of the first things that brought me to Dreamstime.com back in 2007 was its massive collection of high quality, affordable stock images. I've in the past years seen many Dreamstime's images appearing on paperback and kindle novels (for instance, the erotica series 50 Shades of Grey), elements in advertisements on popular websites like Yahoo and Facebook etc.

Dreamtime's images are so affordable partly because its photographers, or contributors, are involved in the process of uploading, naming, describing, categorizing and keywording their own images. However, most of these processes are not regulated.

This presents a problem to Dreamstime's search engine. The engine's ability to recognize an image is based on how accurate a photographer names / categorizes...

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Tags: content database design navigating search

Comments (9)

	Posted by Chanevy on April 27, 2013 T might help to have a way to keyword by phrase. Right now ifI upload a picture of, say, a scissors lift, scissors lift is an appropriate phrasebto keyword, but a buyer looking for scissors would not want that image.
	Posted by Wisconsinart on April 24, 2013 One thing I have been noticing is I am constantly catching Contributors who blatantly copy and steal my keywords. When you go through the portfolios of these bums, you can find additional images where they copied keywords from others. What happens is they end up with a number of keywords that do not apply to their image because they don't bother to check. Virtually every thief I catch has poor sales. Probably because they don't make the effort to do things right and they may turn off Buyers by inadvertently spamming their own images.
	Posted by Tangie on April 24, 2013 Using the Advanced search filters may help you get rid of some of the unwanted results. For instance, you can exclude keywords or set the model's ethnicity as criteria. We have not removed any major search criteria from the advanced filter when we revamped the site.