Tag Archives: keywording

Taking Part in Deactivation Day? picWorkflow can help.

By bobbigmac | Published: January 21, 2013
[Translate] This week I’ve been getting a lot of requests for help from people deactivating their images/portfolios on iStock as part of Deactivation Day as a result of iStock’s crazy Google-drive partnership ripoff. I only have a tiny portfolio on iStock (52 images) because their submission process is such an inefficient time-sink anyway but will [...]
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How Many Images on the Internet?

By bobbigmac | Published: May 2, 2012
[Translate] A pretty thorough estimate of the number of unique images (photos and illustrations) on the entire internet, broken down by source. Most of the larger estimates are accurate to within a billion or so, the smaller ones to within about 25%, where figures are exact they’ve been retrieved somewhere between Oct 2011 and April [...]
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How long does image keywording take on picWorkflow?

By bobbigmac | Published: December 15, 2011
[Translate] One of the most common questions I get about picWorkflow is how long keywording of images takes… since it’s a ‘natural system’ (because keyworders are crowd-sourced, subject to QA, and they choose which images they want to work on, and how much they wish to earn), it’s a difficult question to give a definitive [...]
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Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning

By bobbigmac | Published: October 28, 2011
[Translate] I received a couple of questions today from a potential picWorkflow photo keywording customer, and I figured since I’ve been seeing similar questions coming in from search engines, that I’d post the question and my response here for anyone else who may be interested in the keywording or photo captioning service to see too. [...]
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Caption and Keyword your Microstock Images from 20 cents

By bobbigmac | Published: October 6, 2011
[Translate] Do you hate taking the time to fill out your title and description fields for microstock submissions??? I know I do! I’m delighted to announce that you can now have your photo and illustration title and description fields expertly filled out on picWorkflow for just 20 US cents! All titles and descriptions are validated [...]
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Improvements, changes and good things on picWorkflow

By bobbigmac | Published: February 22, 2011
[Translate] Rather than focus on the recent big changes and additions to picWorkflow microstock photographer’s tools such as the image keywording service (which is becoming very popular), it’s api-based interface, the microstock export lightroom plugin, or the portfolio promotion tools… just a quick post today to highlight some of the recent smaller improvements to make [...]
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Keywording API for Organisations & Resellers

By bobbigmac | Published: February 16, 2011
[Translate] As we all know… for stock images, better keywords means more sales. Images can be indexed by the search engines, found and licensed by more image-buyers and so will generate higher RPIs and earn more money. To increase the quality of keywords applied to stock photographs and illustrations already available for sale on microstock [...]
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Stock Photo Keywording in just 3 clicks with picWorkflow

By bobbigmac | Published: January 18, 2011
[Translate] You can now purchase keywording services through picWorkflow to keyword your images before distribution. The model is simple: you set how many keywords you want an image to have, and how much you want to pay per keyword. The price range is between 0.5 cents and 2 cents per keyword, which at 40 keywords [...]
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