MarineLife Keyword List is a keywords file created by professional underwater photographers to simplify wildlife keywording workflow. It contains keywords for over 12,000 species of marine life and includes not only common names, but also genus and species names, and full taxonomic structure. Marty Snyderman, Barry Guimbellot and Eric Cheng have researched marine life all over the world to come up with the MarineLife Keyword List which lists the genus and species of over 4000 fish, 4000 invertebrates, and all known marine turtles, rays, skates, sharks, marine reptiles and marine mammals.  They have taken the hard work of keywording images out of your hands to make keywording a joy.

Searchable by common name or part of the common name, the keyword list ensures that you will never again have to type in long pseudo-latin scientific names when keywording your images in Aperture or Lightroom. In addition, a number of other taxonomic names such as the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family and other sub-categories exist as parent keywords and are automatically applied when you tag your image.

MarineLife Keyword List can currently be imported into both Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture without adversely affecting your current keyword database. Upon import, the keywords are available for immediate use in keywording your marine wildlife images.

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Do you question if you will ever use a keyword?

Keywords are words added to the metadata of an image or other asset to help people searching for information or assets, both locally, and on the web.  As photographers, we add keywords to images to make them easier to find.

If every web programmer and search engine in the world thinks keywords are a good idea for finding things, why should you not take advantage of the same concept?

Wouldnt you like to search for "queen angelfish", "Marty" and "Cozumel" and be able to see every image of a queen angelfish taken in Cozumel with Marty in the same frame?  By searching images using keywords and captions, one would never have to scroll through every picture shot during multiple trips to Cozumel or through every image of an angelfish taken everywhere in the world.

Stock photography agencies require keywords so both the agency and customers can effectively search their massive database of images. Why not prepare your images to prepare for the day you will want to sell to such an agency?

Although captions are extremely important for properly describing an image for searching, images can also have multiple keywords attached, which will make finding desired images even easier. This is the power of the MarineLife Keyword List.  Ideally, every marine species in your photographs should be searchable by not only its species name and common name/s, but by its full taxonomic structure.  When the MarineLife Keyword List is used to attach keywords to an image, there can be as many as 10 keywords immediately assigned to the image, allowing the image to be found by more people using different criteria for their search.

MarineLife Keyword List sells for $99 and is available as a direct download by clicking here.