Getting keywords

How could I easily get (copy through clipboard) keywords for bought images?

When I go to image detail, there is for example "Vector, Men, Child, Little Girls, Family, Illustration and Painting, Human Hand, Love, Human Hair, Blue, Red ...more", so I cannot copy all keywords easily. When I click "more", the table with keywords is much more unfriendly for getting keywords.

I need these keywords for cataloguing my images.

Thank you for answer.

Slect them and paste in clipboard and then paste them in Notepad ...


I always put KWs in IPTC so buyer have them already in every photo.

I know, but it is not too much comfortable. And vector images do not carry IPTC information...

oh, interesting question, interesting use.


I just tried one of my own, this is what I did:


Opened image detail, Clicked More on keywords (it sounds like you see that?), highlighted all the KWs and then pasted into a WordPad document. It pasted just the text.


Here's what the list looks like on this image (in WordPad it doesn't do the extra spacing which I think the CSS here makes our posts do):







Christmas Lights


Christmas Decoration


Abstract


Multi Colored


Illuminated


White Background


Large


Heap


Isolated On White


Frame


Brightly Lit


Vibrant Color


Bright


on


Design Element


Surface Level

Do you think that this is comfortable?!

lol, I don't have anything to compare it to. So, it didn't seem too difficult or cumbersome. But is that what you mean by "comfortable?" Ease of use?


Is your idea more to have KW included in the IPTC file or EXIF data? I can tell you that I add KW through DeepMeta or online, not through Photoshop/Bridge/Lightroom. So, as far as I know, my keywords don't stay with my image. But, I've never looked at files I DL.

If you want to keep track of images through some sort of database / catalogue, a set of keywords invented by yourself might have more meaning for you.

On the other hand, what do you see as more straightforward than selecting the keywords on the web page and then pasting them into another application?

Sure, copying and pasting, but easy, not hard. Have a look: [[ link removed ]]


On another site, the only thing I have to do is Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V, because keywords are all easy visible, selectable, correctly splitted by commas, all in low case, in single words. Totally perfect.


Here I have to click to "... more", Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V in Notepad, replace free space with commas, somehow handle multiword phrases, possibly set all chars to low case, then Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to use it correctly. Damned.


On iStockphoto, keywords are useful just for contributors, not too much for searchers a totally not for those who buy/download images.

(Edited on 2009-10-20 10:21:01 by donald_gruener)

I can assure you that's not the intention. A great deal of work has is going into iStock's keyword system so that it will suit searchers and buyers all over the world.

The phrases that cause you a problem are there for buyers first. Given the long-term nature of iStock's keywording procedure, I can't see that ease of cutting and pasting will come into the planning arena very soon, but I may be wrong. And perhaps someone else will have an improved suggestion for you.

If you use FireFox and have the Greasemonkey addon installed you could install this script: http://www.theasis.co.uk/iStock/show_keywords.user.js

Greasemonkey! Great idea, it works!


Thank you very much, you are smart ;o)

Ah, I should have come back to the thread. I added an option on my iStockTools page to get the keyword list:
http://digitalplanetdesign.com/index.php?page=istocktools

Oh, well...

I know of two ways to get a list of keywords applied to an image. First you can click Copy Tags from the file edit page then paste them into whatever. The other, an easier way, is if you use Deep Meta select an image and click Copy. If you paste into Notepad or another text editor you will spit out the comma-separated keywords (if you paste into another DM file using the feature supplied you can select what info - title, description, keywords, categories, releases - is "pasted").

He's talking about being a buyer and wanting to get the keywords from the details page into a purchase so he can search his hard drive for something.

I see. Thanks for clarifying that. Sorry OP, my bad.