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Just wondering if anyone out there has found a neat program that helps with keywording. I've been doing it image by image in photoshop and really want to find a way of speeding things up. I've tried out a couple of programs called prostockmaster (www.prostockmaster.com) and Image Keyworder (www.imagekeyworder.com). So far I'm leaning towards Image Keyworder because it has a nice thesaurus and seems to generate useful additional terms when I select a word - there are some nice batch functions too. Prostockmaster was quite cool and fast but the keyword generator didn't seem to give me the right words. Has anyone else tried these programs and/or have any suggestions as to what might be best to use? Thanks
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The ones you have sound good, but as you say do limit you a little. I am not sure what your budget is, but how about Adobe Bridge? It is very useful and easy to use. Batch is it's specialty and its pretty fast. I have been using it a couple of months now. I think that if you are using CS2 it comes with it? have a look in your Adobe folder in program files.
Sam
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Dobe bridge CS3 definitally. It allows you to group your keywords and add them to many files at once. Also lightroom has some kind of the same funtionality only you will have to selct them one by one, if I remember correctly.
More info here: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.3bc30db1/7
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I am building a piece of software with two very talented programmers
in Germany, that can do all of these things including some that you
will find extremely relevant. The software will be called the Yuri
Arcurs Fasttagger and is currently in production. I have just myself
seen the first screenshot from it today and it is pretty amazing. It
will be usable with Vista, XP, leopard and Tiger and also work as a
plug-in to adobe bridge in all these OS's. A total of eight different
programs had to be made. The software will suggest keywords for you,
as well as just being easy to handle and easy to use. You can
copy/paste IPTC information from one picture to another and you can
even "train" the algorithm in the program to suggest your own
keywords. If you train it, it will work with the istock
disambiguitising system as well. The program arrives highly trained.
You cannot rank keywords, because the IPTC data function does not
support this. Sorry. (could have been nice with fotolia).
The software (in testing) seem extremely powerful at detecting missing
or "left" out keywords and should be used carefully or everybody will
use the same "top ranked keywords". The database for the program to
suggest keywords from is build on a database of over 200000 keyworded
pictures, but in testing it looks like it will be able to suggest
keywords in real time, as you type. Pretty impressive. It can be
bought from my website in a few months from now, but I need a few
beta-testers so send me an email. O)
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