Bill Ragosta Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 OK, so I'm not entirely sure I get the whole lightbox thing or how it helps a seller, but it probably wouldn't hurt for me to make a few lightboxes, one for "wildlife", one for "people" and one for "travel" for example. In the past, I'd click for each image to go to my one and only lightbox, which wasn't even named at the time, but recently I haven't been putting my new images into that lightbox. I now have about 300 newer images that aren't in a lightbox and I thought I'd put them into one but I can't recall how to do it. Help. If I go into "manage images" and hover over a thumbnail, I don't get any drop down or choice to add to a lightbox. I tried putting those 300 images into a batch but I still don't know what to do from there. As I recall, it's really simply and you just hover over your image and get your drop down choice to add to a lightbox but from what screen do you do so? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 You have to do that from alamy images. So say in this thread you click on all your images, you can add to lightbox from there. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Ragosta Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 Ah, got it. Thank you kindly. My poor old brain is rather slow on the uptake at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 This question has no doubt been asked (many times) before, but does anyone know if lightbox images show up in Google searches? If not, what is the point of creating them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Ragosta Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 Good question. I guess I'm moving them because the lightboxes are available on Alamy and I think I should, but why should I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Good question. I guess I'm moving them because the lightboxes are available on Alamy and I think I should, but why should I? I've never bothered with lightboxes because they seem more useful for buyers, but perhaps I'm missing something. Wouldn't be the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 I think they are designed for buyers, not sellers, but I do categorize my images in them simply because if I want to make changes in keywords I can just go in to that group of images and make the changes. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 As far as I remember Alamy removed the possibility to use lightboxes for contributors for a short time a few years ago, but it was reintroduced pretty fast - or the limitation never came into force. They may have seen the advantage of the extra and nearly free direct exposure to key customers. It sure is a useful tool for contributors, either to send to customers, as Philippe mentions, or to use on websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 This question has no doubt been asked (many times) before, but does anyone know if lightbox images show up in Google searches? Tineye appears to trawl the Alamy catalogue, but, in my experience, Google does not. I don't know if having images in a Lightbox makes any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 This question has no doubt been asked (many times) before, but does anyone know if lightbox images show up in Google searches? Tineye appears to trawl the Alamy catalogue, but, in my experience, Google does not. I don't know if having images in a Lightbox makes any difference. I have seen them. Try Googling "your name" Alamy. I've tried it with others so it's not just showing mine because I'm logged in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 This question has no doubt been asked (many times) before, but does anyone know if lightbox images show up in Google searches? Tineye appears to trawl the Alamy catalogue, but, in my experience, Google does not. I don't know if having images in a Lightbox makes any difference. I have seen them. Try Googling "your name" Alamy. I've tried it with others so it's not just showing mine because I'm logged in. I don't have any lightboxes, so I can't try this at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 This question has no doubt been asked (many times) before, but does anyone know if lightbox images show up in Google searches? Tineye appears to trawl the Alamy catalogue, but, in my experience, Google does not. I don't know if having images in a Lightbox makes any difference. I have seen them. Try Googling "your name" Alamy. I've tried it with others so it's not just showing mine because I'm logged in. Mark I've tried that too, and it finds textual stuff which may include an image, for example from this forum, and it does find a link to my entire collection, but Tineye will find specific images within the catalogue. Here's a typical example. This is a link to a typical DM article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2983617/The-villages-stuffed-millionaires-East-Horsley-named-hottest-spot-wealthy-buyers-42-homes-sold-1million-past-two-years.html and this is what Tineye finds from the Alamy credited photo within http://www.alamy.com/image-details-popup.asp?imageid={38464144-CCD6-48AC-B24F-4FF32378EE82} i.e the specific image from within the web based article. Google finds further references to the article, from copycat publishers, but not the location of the image within the Alamy catalogue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 The ones Google finds in your Alamy collection could be the ones viewed, when the crawler/spider was visiting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Apologies for drifting further away from the Lightbox topic, but I find that the two reverse image search engines have different strengths. If you are wanting to search for usages of your own photos by doing a reverse image search on a picture within your collection, both Tineye and Google will do this, but I find Google to be better. If you are searching for a specific Alamy image from within a newspaper website, Tineye wins hands down, as it often finds a link to the specific Alamy page (not to mention those of big G and various other agencies). This is a relatively recent phenomenon, it has been getting steadily better over the past 6 months or so. A word of caution, it occasionally finds a very similar but slightly different image, but this is not a regular occurrence. To date, I've not seen Google being able to search within the catalogue in this way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dov makabaw Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 I only use Lightboxes on demand from clients. I can see more advantages for buyers to use Lightbox as they put together a selection. dov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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