Alamy Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Here's a blog post with some details on the upcoming new contributor tools. >>Introducing the Alamy Image Manager Cheers Alamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanGibson Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Thanks for doing this, it looks like it will be a much improved process for me. As someone whose key wording could best be described as haphazard, I am especially looking forward to; Lets say you forgot to add the tag “USA” to all your images you took whilst travelling across America. All you need to do now is search for the tag “America” (assuming you added that before), select all images and then just add the “USA” tag once and hit save – you’re all set without overriding any other data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I'm apprehensive about a completely new system unless there's an option to carry on with the old one, with which I am entirely happy. Looks like mains and comps have equal weighting which is bad news for some of my older keyword sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Looks good to me. Getting rid of Flash, yabadabadoo..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Looks good to me. Getting rid of Flash, yabadabadoo..... Non-Flash web elements have an annoying tendency not to refresh properly on my second monitor. it's no problem for me and never has been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 .. Looks like mains and comps have equal weighting which is bad news for some of my older keyword sets. Same here. Though it may be possible to re-visit those older submissions and adjust batched keywords .. erm, I mean tags! Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broad Norfolk Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Thanks for this information. To me it looks very efficient and once we've got used to it I can see the workflow will be much more streamlined. Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 looking good, thanks for the update, I like the new discoverabilty tool and getting rid of flash is most welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baker Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 .. It would be nice those of us who take part in forum discussions on this are in the list of people to get the new updates first I'm guessing it's the large/regular, News and large sales volume uploaders who'll be treated to the new version first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanGibson Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 .. It would be nice those of us who take part in forum discussions on this are in the list of people to get the new updates first I'm guessing it's the large/regular, News and large sales volume uploaders who'll be treated to the new version first. Who knows? I think if I was in charge, I'd look for contributors who keyword/upload regularly, but in small batches to begin with, and if all goes well with those, then those who keyword/upload regularly in larger batches, and end with the infrequent contributors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Looks good... looking forward to having a go. And looking forward to being able to keyword using my iPad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Walker Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 It's looking good Alamy - thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Looks good. Being able to add without erasing everything else is great. And with having the weighted keywords, that should compensate a bit for the double entry benefit. My main concern is old images with tags such as New York City will go as 3 separate tags as all the keywords in the old images are keyworded with no commas, at least most of mine are. And will images with keywords in brackets, separated by commas, be regarded as a single tag or end up with each word being a separate tag. Jill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanRohrer Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 If this is as simple as it looks, I may be motivated to go back and review those very old images keyworded before the current 3 tier system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Thank you for the news Alamy. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Looks good... looking forward to having a go. And looking forward to being able to keyword using my iPad. Shouldn't that be "TAG". See I'm learning already. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Elias Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I would like to see Alamy giving a search advantage to those images that have been keyworded with 50 tags to motivate people to review their images. Those who were able to reduce to 30 keywords would receive a even bigger benefit. Not only would that recognize the efforts of those who try not to spam, but punish those who use a horde of irrelevant keywords. In fact, my experience tells me that 30 keywords are more than enough. Looking at alamy measures and other agencies that identify the keywords used by buyers show that almost all searches use a couple words and are pretty direct on what they want. One of the agencies that has been recently purchased by a software giant we all know started doing this and I could only see advantages. They accept 50 keywords but value more the images with just 30 and give a higher value to the first seven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeCee Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Looks all good to me, in particular the ability to set up ready-to go-defaults for pseudonyms. Should be much quicker and simpler, very happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I'm guessing it's the large/regular, News and large sales volume uploaders who'll be treated to the new version first. quite possibly km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Thrilled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Yates Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 It's a thumbs up from me. Bring it on. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MircoV Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Great!!!! From me full support. It am sure that it will make everyone's workflow simpler and better. Thanks Alamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Looking forward to taking it for a test drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Limb Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 It all looks good and sounds good; but like some many new systems there will be teething problems - remember a well known PC operating system is said to often release an update as the final Beta Testing process! So what if we find a hitch? Can we run old and new in parallel for a period of time? Or is the slow release going to be selective so that they are the final beta testers? Either way once fully deployed and fully functional I feel sure we will all benefit, well done Alamy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I would like to see Alamy giving a search advantage to those images that have been keyworded with 50 tags to motivate people to review their images. Those who were able to reduce to 30 keywords would receive a even bigger benefit. Not only would that recognize the efforts of those who try not to spam, but punish those who use a horde of irrelevant keywords. In fact, my experience tells me that 30 keywords are more than enough. Looking at alamy measures and other agencies that identify the keywords used by buyers show that almost all searches use a couple words and are pretty direct on what they want. One of the agencies that has been recently purchased by a software giant we all know started doing this and I could only see advantages. They accept 50 keywords but value more the images with just 30 and give a higher value to the first seven. I don't wish for this. Wildlife images can take a lot of keywords and I have had sales when some of my detailed keywords were overlooked by other photographers. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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