How do you keyword your images?

ljupco · #1 (**permalink**) 02-09-2006, 02:23 PM

Hi,

I have been struggling with this issue for a month or more now and now it seems that I am ready to give up.

I first started to keyword all my images with Bridge and it was fine until I started to upload pictures to fotolia. The I used the same program, but when I uploaded the pics to Fotolia, they all apeared like one word. No matter what I tried it wouldn't work.It seems that all the words have to be separated with comas, and Bridge doesn't do that, it just separates them with blank space, which works for IS, SS, and DS.

Then I decided to try exifer again, but I noticed that when I paste the keywords to exifer, it doesn't separate the words with comas, but with blank space again. Only when you add word by word it does separate them by comas. This's a lot of fuss , so I decided to try another program.

After reading a review of Photomechanic, i downloaded the demo version and tried to do it again. Again the same problems- the keywords are not separated with comas, but with blank space.

Now I am stuck and reconsider the decision to upload to fotolia because it'll take a lot of time to add every single keyword manually.

So how do you do it? Anyone has any suggestions for me?

Thanks in advance and regards from Macedonia.Ljupco

morch · #2 (**permalink**) 02-09-2006, 02:30 PM

Hi, ljupco

I just checked this out again, I too use exifer to keyword my images and I upload to fotolia with no problems.

I have no idea why this is not working for you. Or are you talking about actually getting the keywords into exifer?

Doug

ljupco · #3 (**permalink**) 02-09-2006, 11:25 PM

Yep, When I add all the keywords together in the exifer there are no comas. Otherwise if I do it manually , one by one it works just fine. How do you keyword your images in the exifer?

morch · #4 (**permalink**) 02-09-2006, 11:33 PM

Sorry I misunderstood , Im with you now,

I usually upload similar photos in a batch, like 20 flower pics for example and enter the first image manually one word at a time, then create a template, and apply it to the lot.

Then change each ones title and add/remove any extra or redundant keywords.

Then upload.

The templates feature is invaluable to me.

Doug

ljupco · #5 (**permalink**) 02-10-2006, 10:12 AM

Yeah, then thing is that I do not usually upload similar pictures, that's why I have to find another way, I guess. Thanks for the help though.Regards from Macedonia. Ljupco

morch · #6 (**permalink**) 02-10-2006, 01:41 PM

Sorry I couldnt help!

thesupe87 · #7 (**permalink**) 02-13-2006, 06:43 AM

http://www.irfanview.com/

IrfanView - get it and you won't need anything else.

FREE!! for me, it works great with all of the sites, because you're editing the IPTC data, not the EXIF. It kicks photoshop CS's butt for adding descriptions, keywords, and titles. I love it.

Nicko · #8 (**permalink**) 02-13-2006, 10:05 AM

Yeah,,,, i just got the updated version of bridge and it puts in commas.

Cheers
Nicko

morch · #9 (**permalink**) 02-13-2006, 10:13 AM

Hi Nicko,

welcome to the forum,

Ive never used bridge to keyword, I might give it a try lots of people seem to use it.

Doug