Infocenter - Manual keywording - how to

How to add keywords correctly?

The basic idea is to add all keywords that will allow users to find your image easily but only in the case that they are looking for the image with the given subject. We have two categories of keywords - "Essential" and "General". Essential keywords are those words that are for the image the most important and relevant. The search engine will give them priority before general keywords. The maximum is 5 essential keywords but you can also add less and even only one keyword when it is needed.
General keywords are all less important subjects on the image. They are, for example, on background, not focused etc.
See our example:

The essential keywords will be "woman", "reading", "and drinking".
The general keywords will be "garden", "lamp", "summer", "garden furniture", "pillow". All those things are in the image but they are not so important. It is likely that not all important words will come to your mind. We recommend you to use our keywording form - it is quite long but it will help you not to forget anything. You can also find some similar images on Pixmac and get the inspiration from them.

What to fill into all fields and is it really needed?

• It is necessary to add Model or Property release when it is needed. Otherwise the image won't be accepted.
• Location: It is not necessary to fill in the specific location especially when it is not connected with the subject of the photography (for example studio shots). If there is important region or culture, it can help users to find your images. Also there is a possibility to fill in false location: you have for example made some images of a Chinese culture festival in USA, "China" as location will help more than "USA".
• Category, Nature, Animals, Objects, Technique and viewpoint: help not to forget something important.
• Colors: It is undesirable to fill in all colors that occur in the picture but it is useful to add most important colors for that image.
• Feeling: You don't have to use keywords from Feeling category only for people - it can also mean some mood of the image.
• People: Except from number of people it is useful to fill in all data about pictured people, most important are age, gender, hair color, hairstyle and ethnicity (mainly ethnicity face features).
• Comment: Here you can add specific comments to the image and attach some message for administrators that will review the image - for example that two model releases for two people on the image are in the same file and that is why there is only one MR file attached.
• Keywords: Here you can fill in keywords that you haven't find in upper panels. If you fill in something you have already ticked before, it doesn't matter but those words won't be preferred. The exception are essential keywords which are preferred by search engine - here you write most important objects of the image even though they were ticked already before.

Are there any special keywords that I can use?

• Portrait: if there is a person or animal with a headshot and part of the body.
• Profile: if the person or animal is shot from side.
• Eye contact: if the person or animal looks directly into lens.
• Interior/Exterior: if the image is shot inside/outside.
• Nobody: if there is no person on the image.
• Alone: if there is only one person on the image.
• Close up:if the image focuses only on a specific person, place or thing
• Copy space: if there is enough space for inserting some text, for example: