ACC Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Hi I put two groups of photos up for live news yesterday carefully IPTC tagged with city (town), country etc. I did two groups because the location info and themes were different. Live news published them initually in the two groups then later merged them to one group. At the same time the tagging got altered so that the town names aren’t shown only the county. The single heading for the merged groups no longer makes sense because it says ‘xxx at Suffolk” rather than “xxx at Felixstowe, Suffolk”. Live news have emailed me in the past when I failed to include a town name, now they’ve removed the town name. Anyone understand what’s going on? Different Alamy people with different views about how live news photos should be presented? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 The removal of a name has happened to me a few times too. It seems, as far as I can work out, that they only want one location name, not two. If I put Edinburgh, Scotland, they are likely to change to just to Edinburgh. If I put in Aberlady, East Lothian, they are likely to change it to just East Lothian. I guess they know what their customers are likely to pay attention to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 3 hours ago, ACC said: The single heading for the merged groups no longer makes sense because it says ‘xxx at Suffolk” rather than “xxx at Felixstowe, Suffolk”. The headline reads "UK Weather: Sunny afternoon at Suffolk".....which is a fair summary of the whole set km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACC Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 48 minutes ago, RedSnapper said: The headline reads "UK Weather: Sunny afternoon at Suffolk".....which is a fair summary of the whole set km Yes I agree except you wouldn’t say “at Suffolk” you’d say “in Suffolk”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 The pics will, or will not, get used , regardless of whether the headline says 'in Suffolk' or 'at Suffolk' forget it. Move on km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACC Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 2 hours ago, geogphotos said: Hi Angela, I'm just across the other side of the Deben at Shottisham. I'm very familiar with some of the places in your pictures. Just thought I'd say hello. Ian Hello Ian 😄. Love the Deben, have been at Martlesham Creek this afternoon. Never tire of the scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACC Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 2 hours ago, RedSnapper said: The pics will, or will not, get used , regardless of whether the headline says 'in Suffolk' or 'at Suffolk' forget it. Move on km This is good advice. I’m moving on 😄. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACC Posted November 11, 2017 Author Share Posted November 11, 2017 2 hours ago, LawrensonPhoto said: Change it then! I mean add it into the caption It’s the caption Alamy put up, I can’t change it otherwise I would have. Anyway, I’m taking RedSnapper’s advice and moving on. Thanks all for comments 😄. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 12 minutes ago, ACC said: It’s the caption Alamy put up, I can’t change it otherwise I would have. Anyway, I’m taking RedSnapper’s advice and moving on. Thanks all for comments 😄. Keith's right of course, no-one's buying good grammar, more's the pity, but you can change it when it goes into stock. It would bug me as well, although because legacy images with over 50 tags are uneditable I now have some slightly iffy captions where I've had to just add a keyword at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 You can't edit the headline after upload anyway..and its not a field that is visible or searchable once the images leave LiveNews and enter stock.. km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 47 minutes ago, ACC said: It’s the caption Alamy put up, I can’t change it otherwise I would have. headline, not caption.... km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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