As most of you know, for quite some time now, Holy Worlds has run a stock photo site called Olorea, containing stock photos intended for use by HWers.
Unfortunately, the Olorea website had a number of technical limitations that made finding stock photos very difficult. We realized that the Art Gallery could better accommodate the needs of photographers and photo-manipulators. For the past few weeks, myself and the Art Gallery Mod team has been hard at work transferring photos from Olorea to the Art Gallery.
I am pleased to announce that the first eight hundred stock photos are now available on the Art Gallery. Jump over and take a look!
http://holyworlds.org/artwork/gallery/
Now, we're not done quite yet, and we could really use your help. One of the problems with the old Olorea was the lack of good tagging tools. While that has been remedied, we have to manually title and tag each individual photo before it can show up on HWAG. We have about 1,300 images left. You don't have to be an AG mod to help, just jump over here: http://holyworlds.org/artwork/gallery/olorea-tag.php
Here's Elanhil's explanation on tagging:
Elanhil wrote:
What do we do at said link? That is the tagging interface for the incoming Olorea photos. Our job is to tag as many as possible in as little time as possible.
The first field you see on this page is the tittle. This is to describe the picture as best as you can, NOT to be creative. The point is to make these images very find-able when searched for. Cutesy, poetic names hurt that.
Next come the tags. Put yourself in the shoes of the user and try to think what they would type in if looking for the image being tagged. Try to avoid tagging with tags that may make it come up in irrelevant searches. Also, when tagging be sure to tag in plural: Trees instead of tree. If someone searches tree, trees will be recognized. In the case of an irregular plural, ie Mouse Mice, just go ahead and tag both. And if a tag isn't there, it will automatically be added. No need to stick to pre-defined tags.
I should hope the category and lighting parts of it are self-explanatory.
I think that's about it. Here: http://holyworlds.org/artwork/gallery/olorea-tag.php is the link again, so get to work, soldiers!
The first field you see on this page is the tittle. This is to describe the picture as best as you can, NOT to be creative. The point is to make these images very find-able when searched for. Cutesy, poetic names hurt that.
Next come the tags. Put yourself in the shoes of the user and try to think what they would type in if looking for the image being tagged. Try to avoid tagging with tags that may make it come up in irrelevant searches. Also, when tagging be sure to tag in plural: Trees instead of tree. If someone searches tree, trees will be recognized. In the case of an irregular plural, ie Mouse Mice, just go ahead and tag both. And if a tag isn't there, it will automatically be added. No need to stick to pre-defined tags.
I should hope the category and lighting parts of it are self-explanatory.
I think that's about it. Here: http://holyworlds.org/artwork/gallery/olorea-tag.php is the link again, so get to work, soldiers!
If you have any questions, let me know!
Oh, I did.