Keyword strategies for stock and fine art prints
Metadata is key to stock and fine art print sales. How I use custom AI prompts to inject deeper research and optimize Print-on-Demand titles
Category: “How-to” articles
The best of my explanatory “how to do it” articles
ArtushVision AI Review: Restoring Lightroom Keyword Priority & Getty Mapping
Frustrated with Stock Submitter and Lightroom’s alphabetized keywords? Here is how I use ArtushVision AI to automate Getty mapping and restore keyword order.
Problems with Google Gemini Pro AI in developing WordPress features
Can AI build a complex photography portfolio for you? I spent the last week trying to find out. While the AI was a superstar at metadata, it was a hallucinating mess when it came to WordPress plugins like WP Grid Builder and NextGen Pro.
Today, I’m taking a quick diversion from stock photography to share the technical “post-mortem” of my B2B portal build. I’m breaking down the 24 errors the AI made, the plugins I eventually settled on (Filebird, MLA, and more), and why you need to be much more demanding of your AI “consultant” than you think.
Field Test: AI Keywording Solution – ArtushVision AI
Finally, an AI keywording system for stock photos, videos and Print on demand images that really works for me. Read my full comprehensive review.
Best Landscape Photography Gear 2026: 15 Years of Experience in One Bag
15 years of stock photography has given me much experience with equipment choices. What fills my camera backpack for travel imagery now?
Is AI all that it is supposed to be?
A bit of a detour away from photography with an exploration of several hours of time-wasting advice from CoPilot and Google Gemini and the implications for AI adoption
AI Keywording – a new contender, Cyberstock
Keywording for stock photography is critical to success but a real pain to do. Can AI keywording apps do this function for you and help you earn real money from photography?
Selling photos with digital art effects as prints
I enjoy using the Jixipix digital painting apps and create images from my photos that I sell via the various print on demand platforms such as FAA and Pictorem
Lightroom Classic Keywording error 1555
I’m writing this post in case readers of these articles come across a similar issue and so can see the steps I have taken to try to resolve it. So far unsuccessfully, I’m afraid. If you have any suggestions, please let me (and other people with this issue) know in the comments. I’ve been running Lightroom Classic for many years on Windows 10 and now 11 and the app is up to date. I have increasingly been seeing an error...
Food Photography handbook
One of my favorite stock photographers is Annie from Milleflore Images in Australia. I’ve known her since the early 2010s and have been constantly impressed by the skill and dedication that she applies to her stock photography and videography, particularly in the area of food photography. Not only does she style her images immaculately, but she also manages to infuse every image with the senses of smell and taste that you rarely get from a simple photograph of a plate...
