Keywording Tutorial

Keywords

Keywording is the process in which a seller describes an image being sold. Keywords, or tags, are used to describe an image so that a seller can find relevant imagery within a microstock website’s database. The better you are with keywords, the easier (and more likely) it will be for a buyer to find your image. Make sure you use descriptive and conceptual keywords for all images. Here is a list of questions you can ask yourself in order to determine keywords for images:
What is the image about?
What is in the image?
Which element has the most impact?
What does the image mean?
What does the image say to you?
How does the image make you feel?
Why would someone want to download the image?

Once you have come up with your list of keywords you need to apply them to the IPTC data of your image. Find out how to do this for the program you are using first. Then go into the IPTC data and add your list of keywords in order of most relevance. You will need to seperate each word with a comma in order to recognize individual words or phrases. Once you have added this information to your JPEG file you can save it and each site that it is uploaded to will recognize the keyword data for you.