DeepMeta - manage your iStockphoto portfolio

Franky, not sure if this has been suggested already... I would like to be able to add the images to private lightboxes from DeepMeta.


It would be great if you could then sort the images based on the lightbox they belong to. In this way i could sort the portfolio based on the serie of images. An alternative would be to be able to sort by shot date.

Yup, here it is.





Interesting suggestion olandesina. I liked that one. I'm not sure if now a days API gets to retrieve that LB info. But it would be really cool if DM would get all LBs info from an image and as you've suggested we would get to filter it. Another "workaround" solution for those that use the image description to put banners w/ texts would be if DM would allow us to SEARCH/FILTER/FIND texts in the description or main-tag or sub-tag, so if in my description I have "Check out my stationery images" I would search for that and would bring all images that are into these LB. Of course, it will happen if I really was an organized guy. ;0)

(Edited on 2008-07-21 04:34:01 by lucato)

Ken, I have seen a few reports about this type of rejection, and was puzzled at first, but now I think I know what happens.

I'm pretty sure you haven't filled out the copyright fields in DeepMeta menu: "Options | Main options". The 3 fields at the bottom of the dialog. Am I right?

The situation is a bit strange, in that iStock apparently does not take this information at image upload. It probably extracts the copyright info from your online iStock profile data at that stage. However, when you update image info, iStock does demand the copyright info to be supplied. I have no idea why it works that way.
In any case, this is the reason why in some cases you will have valid copyright data and sometimes not, in case you have not filled out the copyright fields in DeepMeta.

I intend to enforce the filling out of the copyright name (I think that's the only one required) in DeepMeta, e.g. when uploading an image. This should make sure that DeepMeta users are aware of it.

Thanks for reporting, and let me know if that was the problem.

question please


if i edit the keywords to half of my files, say to add "vertical (composition)" but one of the affected files happened to have 50words already, what happens? will i be able to upload the changes? will it return error only for those files already with 50words? will it return error for all the updated files? or will i not be able to do this editing even still in DM?


thanks!

Hey Franky, what's up?

I don't know if DM gets to retrieve this info from API, but maybe would be interesting to get the "Deactivation Reason" info. So, when we see the inactive images in DM, we would have these info that we've typed when we've deactivated an image.

A hug.

Another one. I think I have already requested that before, but I didn't get to find it.

Well, DM would accept the ID# in the filter (input field to search). So, if I type the ID# of the image and click on Filter it would filter/show this image OR DeepMeta would have another input field with a "jump" button where we would enter the ID# and press the jump button or Enter to send the selection to the ID# entered. I know I can sort the order by ID# and scroll among them, but scroll among more than 4k files is so slow and annoying and this tool would be much easier.

Yes... Mac please


On the suggestion side: Sometimes I forget to add the model release to a file. Would be possible to have a visual reference of this whithout having to open the image itself? Like an extra column in the image list where u see what images have model release and which not?

DeepMeta is fairly liberal regarding keyword count. You can add more than 50. At upload/update, DeepMeta will only send the first 50 to iStock.

My current guess would be somewhere in August. Sorry to keep you guys waiting so long

Ok... I know I have a communication issue. I tend to make things more complicated



Let's see if I can explain myself in an ABC way. I am talking about a way to make it easier for people to manage their UBB in the description field. I would see this implemented in this way:



We have a separate column/field specific for UBB insertion. The content of the UBB field would be merged to the content of the description field upon upload.



Why this? I often have different descriptions on images, even though I want to add them to the same lightbox. In this way I could manage the two things separately. For example when copying field I could chose to copy only the UBB and not the real description. Does this make sense?



Notice that when I made this suggestion I obviously didn't think that you would then have a problem when fetching updates from istock, because the description field would include the UBB that is not present in the description field on DM. Infact in DM you have that extra part (the UBB) in the separate field. If you can find a work around there (for example when fetching updates from istock, check the description field against the merged values in DM instead of the simple description).

Edited to say...
Things would be much easier for u and everyone if iStock would add a separate field, specific for lightboxes, next to the "descripion of photographer" field. Something like "This file appears also in these lightboxes:" where you are then given the choice to look at private or public lightboxes. Maybe even have those nice images previews of the content of each lightbox before to click on it ( i mean those relegated now only on to the lightboxes search pages).

I think this as been messed up when private lightboxes have been introduced. The thing is that now you can see on the right hand side column in which public lightboxes the file is included, but this doesn't include the private ones, which might sometimes be more helpful. If I am looking at an image, this is because I like the subject or i like the model, etc. Things that are often related to that specific shot. Maybe the reason I don't buy the image is that I would have preferred an horizontal composition, a slightly different crop and so on. At the current state of things, though, I am now pushed to find my image in the portfolio of someone else when I was already that close to make my choice. That's a pity. But I guess anything new here.

(Edited on 2008-07-27 05:22:57 by olandesina)