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22 Apr 08
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For Natural History images, for example, the critical information would be the common and scientific names of the animal or plant pictured, as well as broader search terms such as mammal, bird, tree, etc.
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Keywords are probably the most critical element in making sure our clients see your images. We do not expect you to understand exactly how our search engine works, but it is important to understand that queries search ONLY the keyword field, not the caption or title fields
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For natural history images, for example, it should include the common and scientific names of any organisms pictured, as well as location information, and additional information about what is going on in the image. Other useful information may be included as well if it is relevant. For micrographs, magnification is critical: please express it as a magnification AT A SPECIFIC SIZE, for example, 500X at 5”x7”.
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Having complete informationwill make sales. This cannot be overemphasized—the clients for whom caption information is critical will NOT purchase an image if they cannot confirm what is important to them, most often a species or location or magnification.
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Proper captioning and keywording are critical to making sales.
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That said, here are our size guidelines for digital cameras:
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it is crucial that you shoot in RAW mode and use your camera manufacturer’s software or a program like Adobe Photoshop to upsample the image when opening the RAW file.
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Digital Cameras::
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The larger the image size (assuming acceptable quality) the more sales possibilities an image has; a larger image may be used larger (museum or zoo exhibits, for example, or double page spreads) or cropped without degradation in quality. While this size will continue to remain our absolute minimum acceptable size (2550 pixels on the short side) we now have a series of recommended sizes, depending on the source of the digital image.
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Oversharpening is one of the MOST COMMON reasons a digital image is rejected.
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Some photographers prefer to send low res images initially for review. This is NOT the fastest way to get images on our site, as it will involve 2 separate review processes by our editors.
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due to the huge number of images we receive regularly,
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