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ffranny · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 215

If Shutterstock wants us to provide useful "verifiable" information in our Editorial captions (which I think would be a good thing), we need more than 200 characters in which to do it.

Once you enter the complete location info (which could easily be 30 characters, plus the date with the month spelled out (September=9 characters), plus repeating the date within the caption, that doesn't leave a lot of room for the traditional Who, What, When, Where and Why of professional journalism.

I know no stock site likes to see comparisons with other sites, but if Shutterstock is serious about competing in the market for editorial images, they need to allow room for more complete, informative captions, just as other major sites do.

Thanks for your consideration.

semmickphoto · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:59 am

ruxpriencdiam · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:44 pm

It would be nice but you can still do it with what we have been given to work with.

spe · Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 76

+1 and as cross-posting from other thread, it would be nice that images with "caption format errors" to be returned to the submitted photos queue for editing, not to rejected photos at once.