Don’t Forget the “Seasonal Search”

Sometimes the iStockphoto search can seem a little bit daunting.  However, with the holiday season coming up, have no fear.  There are a set of pre-made searches that you can utilize to speed up your search tasks, or even just to brainstorm with.  The Seasonal Search page.

I blogged on this three years ago, but wanted to revisit it to remind you of this set of searches.

Clicking on these main categories will bring you to a subcategory page, where various major themes for that holiday are split out into photo, illustration and video subcategories.

Keep in mind that these are not editor selected, pre-made lightboxes, but living searches of the collection, so the contents will obviously change over time as more content is added to the collection.

The other thing to mind is the keywords used for these pre-made searches, like:

http://www.istockphoto.com/search/?facets={“35”:[“hanukkah”],”34″:[“1”]}

Most will make sense, like the search for Santa searches for “santa”.  However, the “Christmas” search is a search on both the words “Christmas” and “Jesus”, which eliminates everything from the return that isn’t a nativity scene.  I’ve complained about that for four years, but you can see it hasn’t made a difference.  So just keep an eye on the search terms in the box in the upper left, and you can “x” out or add anything new you want.

As a side note, if you’re in the mood for user and iStock created/edited lightboxes, you can always search for “Halloween” or whatever your favorite holiday, from your lightbox management page, which has a search entry box at the upper right.

To find the Seasonal Search page, click here.

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