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ADDINGNEW IMAGES
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  • Attention: currently, only Images can be added to DeepMeta for upload to iStockphoto. Uploads of Video/Audio/Vector/Flash/Logo are not yet supported. This is because the iStockphoto servers don't support this yet for 3rd party software (such as DeepMeta). You'll have to keep uploading those file types through the traditional iStockphoto site procedure. However, once these files are uploaded and pending or active, you can manage them from within DeepMeta: edit keywords, description, categories, etc.
  • Adding new images to your local DeepMeta database is easy. On the Images tab page: click the Add new images button. If found in the EXIF or IPTC meta data of your image files, the title/description info will be imported. Check the box Import keywords if you also want to import the keywords from your EXIF/IPTC data. Note that DeepMeta will contact the iStockphoto server during this process, if keywords are imported from the image JPG file. The reason is that iStockphoto does not accept any random keyword, but requires these to be conform with the iStockphoto CV (Controlled Vocabulary): a hierarchical exhaustive list of qualified keywords. This data must be fetched by DeepMeta for each group of new keywords added.
  • A dialog window pops up, allowing you to select the images to add. Use Ctrl and/or Shift keys to select multiple JPG images.
  • After selection of the files, a new dialog window shows the progress of the image import, with status, e.g. whether or not keywords could be imported from the file and what iStockphoto size the file will fall into: M/L/XL/XXL/XXXL. A copy of the full-size image files has now been made in the DeepMeta directory, which will be deleted after upload to iStockphoto. This means you can move your original JPG file as soon as it's imported into DeepMeta, and don't need to wait until it's uploaded to iStockphoto.
  • The newly added images appear in the Image list, with status ToEdit, which means that their meta data (title, description and keywords) now need to be entered/verified. Only after that, you'll be allowed to upload the image to iStockphoto.