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Image Keyworder software customised for Alamy Users

Comments (67)24 June 2008 at 09:46 by Pippa Greig
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Annotating your images in line with our requirements is essential if you want to maximise the sales potential of your images. If you submit regularly to us, you might be interested in some new keywording software called Image Keyworder which has been developed by keywording specialists OnAsia. More...

Are you having issues passing Alamy Quality Control?

Comments (27)30 May 2008 at 12:33 by Patrick Ashby - QC team
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At Alamy we like to have happy contributors as well as happy customers, which is why QC is such an integral part of the process. A happy contributor is one whose work passes our QC and a happy customer is one who can purchase images knowing they are of the highest standard. More...

Having difficulties with keywording your images?

Comments (8)28 March 2008 at 13:04 by Ben Gray
Posted under News, Advice and tips

If you haven’t got the time, motivation, linguistic talents or inspiration to keyword your images then why not get someone else to do it for you? More...

Permissions: Museums and Heritage properties

Comments (4)10 August 2007 at 15:40 by Pippa Greig
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It may surprise you to know that there are a number of situations in which you require permission in order to take photographs for stock. More...

Editing and enhancing your collection

Comments (13)12 June 2007 at 14:37 by Alexandra Bortkiewicz
Posted under Advice and tips

If you are preparing a portfolio to sell your work, the 'less is more' approach generally works best. A buyer is more likely to remember the one or two impressive images over the other 15 mediocre ones, so best to include just the memorable ones that will linger in the reviewer's mind. More...

The wonderful world of Jpeg submissions

Comments (84)22 February 2007 at 13:25 by James Allsworth
Posted under Boring but necessary announcements, Advice and tips

Our required file size for submitting Jpegs seems to cause an incomprehensible amount of confusion with a high volume of photographers. Put simply, we are flabbergasted as to how many times we are asked, daily, of what format and size of images we require! More...

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