Cushy stock - stock photo keywording tool
If you’re a professional stock photographer and you need a tool for image keywording, think about Cushy Stock. Few days ago I found a topic on MicrostockGroup where someone posted a topic about this small tool. I couldn’t wait to try it myself…
If you have a problem to manage your images or vector files, this could be the solution. This tool will help you to upload your images from a digital camera to photo stock (of course, after you “touch” them with image editing tools).
After you edit your images (Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, etc) and before you upload them to photo stock, you’ll need (at least) to add keywords, set image names and small description. This is the easiest way to do this. Especially if you have similar images which belong to the same category.
With Cushy Stock you will be able to track your images so you won’t make mistakes with double uploads. I tried it myself and I’m very satisfied. By the way program is so fast that I’m completely surprised.
Unfortunately trial version will give you a chance to upload only one file per program start so you won’t see his great potential. This is not so big problem because buying Cushy Stock is a piece of cake. You can buy it for only $49.95 and you can pay it via Pay Pal, Moneybookers, Credit Card, Phone, and Fax or via Wire Transfer.
Complete features list is not so small:
- complete stock photography workflow automation
- images cataloging
- associating keywords with catalog categories
- vast embedded catalog with keywords sets
- ability to create own catalog categories and add new keywords
- viewing images from every catalog category
- displaying all images available at the specified photo stock (images are grouped by statuses)
- searching for photos by keywords
- viewing thumbnails of all images on your computer
- ability to set and update statuses for every image and every stock
- ability to set an image title, copyright and description
- adding, deleting and editing image keywords
- adding keywords from categories an image is assigned to
- synchronization of keywords for different images
- automatic keywords generation
- ability to view EXIF, XMP and IPTC image tags
- grouping by EXIF tag
- store status info into IPTC tag
- calendar view
- displaying information on every photo stock
- showing images grouped by statuses
- basic file operations (copy, move, delete, rename)
- working with Model release
- automated image upload to photo stocks via FTP protocol
- automated tracking of image history after it’s been renamed or moved to another location
- vector EPS format support
- RAW format support
- full screen viewing mode
- ability to install the application on portable devices, e.g. USB Flash Drive or USB hard drive
- EPS to JPEG conversion
- ZIP archive support
- deleting EXIF data from an image
- financial information
- easy and useful 4 steps wizard
- Windows Vista support
- And much more…
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