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jimwall · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Olympia WA

If someone clicks the box that says 'photo released' in their search, all the photos that do not need a release are filtered out along with the editorial photos.

Could we get it so it only filters out the photos that need are editorial, or did I miss something...

StuartE · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:11 am

Surely if they are searching only for images that have 'releases', that's what they're searching for? If you had an 'editorial only' switch, you'd expect it to 'only' give editorial, too, wouldn't you? I'd figure if they wanted 'everything', they wouldn't filter out any of those... hence the system would work...

Cheers,
Stuart

jimwall · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Olympia WA

If you do a search for lets say 'car' and you get a large number of editorial photos you have so sift through, so you check 'model released' to filter them out. It filters out the editorial photos as as well as the photos that do not need a release.

Why cant the filter be changed to 'non editorial only' That way they would get results of both model released AND release not needed photos.

StuartE · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:29 pm

That is exactly what the 'model released' is supposed to do, though - show you only shots with model releases... I guess all that's needed is a 'don't show' editorial button... I believe there is a way to only see editorial, but none to filter it out of searches...

Cheers,
Stuart

fncdigital · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:59 pm

he wants a search that will filter out editorial only not everyrthing else right?

StuartE · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:51 pm

Yes, the ability to drop 'editorial only' from the search... it does make sense, I'd only looked the other way, too - in that if you were looking for an editorial image, you wouldn't care about having the others, as they're still usable - but for a designer (who cares about copyright) being able to not see the editorial would be an advantage...

Cheers,
Stuart

jimwall · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Olympia WA

If you do a search on 'tiger' you'll come up with a bunch of pictures of Tiger Woods which are editorial only.

Click the box for model released only, and you'll end up with two pictures of people (thus the model release) but no other pictures.

The designer either has to wade through the editorial pictures to get to the one's they're looking for, or they only get pictures with people in them (thus the model release)

Instead of a checkbox for model released only, please please please make it a checkbox to exclude editorial only pictures!

shutterstock · Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1881 Location: New York, NY

The idea is that editorial is a SUBSET of commercial..

so anything thats editorial is commercial..

so having an "editorial" switch .. would just bring up anything! since a commercial shot can be editorial, but an editorial shot cannot be commercial unless its released.

make sense?

Jon

jimwall · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Olympia WA

The designer can't use an editorial picture. The designer CAN use a picture without a release if there is no person or copyrighted material in it. The designer should be able to filter out editorial only material from their search.

The way the search is set up, they can exclude non released material, which filters out editorial, but ALSO excludes material that does not need a release.

So a 'editorial' switch would be pointless, but a 'no editorial' switch is what I am after.

StuartE · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:53 pm

I can see the point, Jon, that editorial covers anything - but picture the site from a designer who only wants images he can use, legally - he can't use editorial, he only wants to see model released an no release needed shots - currently he has to look at 'em all, and look st each potential shot to see if it's editorial or not... that's the 'switch' that's being suggested, to filter out editorial images...

Cheers,
Stuart