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sudhi · Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Pune, India

Hi all,
This one was rejected with a comment "Too many on site". Well i couldn't find anything like this. In fact a search for "green leaf dry" gives just 2 pages of result.
I would like to know your comment on this image. Its kind of my fav.

Sudhi

Erin · Admin Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 431

"Too many on site" doesn't necessary mean that we're saying "There are too many images just like this one" It means that there are many many similar themed images. For instance, type in 'leaf nature' and you'll find a great abundance of leaves, flowers, etc.

StuartE · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:53 pm

Ummm, I'm no keyword expert or anything, but from the look of the thumbnail, wouldn't "green leaf wet" be more appropriate???

Cheers,
Stuart

sudhi · Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Pune, India

Well exactly my point. A designer searching for "dry leaf amongst green leaves" will most certainly search for "green leaf dry". "leaf nature" is a general search term. Someone looking for a specific image will be using more keywords in their search terms. So when we say variety of images, don't you think it should be in the specific images rather than in the general category?

--Sudhi

StuartE · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:02 am

But ALL of your leaves are wet, sudhi - so why are you complaining about 'dry leaves' as keywords?? You've got me confused - there are 21 'wet green leaves' here, keyworded, and 8 'dry green leaves' - but seriously, your leaves are not 'dry' - are you just trying to keyword incorrectly for the amusement value?

Cheers,
Stuart

sudhi · Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 69 Location: Pune, India

Hmmm.. ok i did confuse a brown dry looking leaf for an actually dry leaf, but that was just an example i gave, it could very well be a search for wet leaves.
Ok my whole point of writing here is to find out what to submit in future and what not.
BTW i had given a title of "Pick the odd one out" and amazingly the keywords that i entered were "green leaf brown water drop background color odd pick colour bright beautiful wet". Dry is nowhere in the scene ;). Dunno wat got into me when i posted this message :D.. Ha Ha silly me.