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Blog Makeover with Artisteer
I was searching for a nice template for the blog, I looked at several offerings but I was looking for something clean and not to busy, on one website I found a link back to Artisteer, I was pleasantly surprised by the easy use of this application.
Being a bit impulsive I went for the Standard Edition at $129.95, there is a Home and Academic version as well for $49.95 which will suit anyone wanting a new look for their WordPress Blog, there is also a free try before you buy versions that wantermarks the templates you export. Read the rest of this entry »
Keyword placement and search relevance
The Artists at Alamy have devised a system to see how you rank as an artists against your peers, they call it the BHZ game, where you add BHZ as the first keyword to an RM licensed image, then after 48 hours you can search on the term BHZ, based on where your image turns up in the search then that is your ranking, this is flawed in many ways as there can be many other factors, the other keywords, date uploaded, number of views and zooms, and Alamy’s diversity algorithm.
So on any stock website just how do you know if your keyword positioning is correct, and how your image is placed with it’s peers, I would like to share the method I use on my Alamy images and see what other artists think, with a small portfilio amongst over 17 million images, as a part-time photographer I often wonder how the buyers find my images, I do get recorded views, zooms with an odd sale here and there.
How-To: Isolation over White with Photoshop
We have been asked by several people how-to do a Photoshop Isolation over white effect, to help stop QA rejections for stray Isolation
We took an image in a studio with a set of cheap studio lights from EBay, the backdrop was just a king-sized white flat sheet, hanging from the wall and draped over a chair.
Keyword Editor for Photoshop
Over on the Micro Stock Group forum we were looking at Image keyword tools and the site owner posted a link to a tool he had used.
This Photoshop plug-in that helps photographers to add metadata keywords to their images efficiently and easily. Main tools: spell checker, correction suggestions, synonyms suggestions, sorting, deleting duplicate, and counting. Saving groups of words and complete Templates of Meta-data.
The plug-in has no limitations and is from 2006, I tried to visit the website for Deep Perspective but the link was not valid, but I thought it may be worth looking at the tool anyway.
