Guides

Rules from the stocks' own pages, checked and dated. Plain answers first.

• Lightroom Classic plugin: installing, connecting and using it

  Describe photos inside Lightroom Classic: titles, captions and keywords written into your catalog. Download and step-by-step guide for Windows and macOS.

• Adobe Stock: titles, keywords and CSV

  What Adobe Stock expects in a title and keywords, how keyword order affects search, and how to upload metadata with a CSV.

• Shutterstock: descriptions, keywords and CSV

  How Shutterstock uses the description as a title, how many keywords and categories it needs, the editorial caption format and the CSV columns.

• iStock: titles, keywords and the ESP CSV

  What iStock's ESP asks for: English titles and descriptions, Getty's controlled vocabulary, country and date, and the CSV template.

• Pond5: titles, keywords and CSV

  What Pond5 expects in titles, descriptions and keywords, its editorial caption, and how to add metadata to photos and clips with one CSV.

• Editorial captions: Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, iStock, Pond5

  Where each stock wants the place, date and facts of an editorial photo or clip, with the official formats and examples.

• AiMedia vs ChatGPT for stock metadata

  What you do yourself with a chat assistant and what AiMedia does for you: stock rules, batches, CSV per stock, editorial, cost.

• Why stocks reject photos and videos for metadata

  Similar content, keyword and title spam, brand names and mismatched metadata: what Adobe Stock, Shutterstock and Getty say, and how to avoid it.