Image researchers locate and acquire permission to use images for various media, including textbooks, newspapers, and film. They must have research skills and knowledge of online image display to add value to the final product. They purchase high-resolution images and collect information about rights, and may belong to a professional organization.
An image researcher locates and acquires permission to use images upon customer request. This work can include fetching images for inclusion in textbooks, newspaper and magazine articles, film and television production, and many other settings. Image researchers need to be good at research, with a keen eye for interesting, engaging, and useful images. They may work as freelancers, employees of publishing houses or employees of stock houses, where image and rights databases are available for use.
Image Browser can also generate images as tables and graphs and write captions. People working with online media may also be responsible for generating alt tags and meta tags to make images accessible and add value and content to the final product. This requires an understanding of how online image display works so that people can add relevant and useful information to the images they provide to their customers.
An image researcher’s work begins when a client approaches a project; for example, a textbook company might need a complete set of illustrations for a textbook, including chapter titles, visual demonstrations of concepts, graphics, cover art, and so on. The image researcher meets with the client to determine the desired look of the requested images, as well as to gather information on the available quote. With these details in hand, the researcher gets to work.
Image researchers scour image databases to find what they want, then purchase high-resolution versions of the images for the client to integrate into a project. Part of the work also includes collecting information about rights. The image can be open source, with no need to request permissions, or it can be freely available for use as long as credit is given to the creator. With other images, the image researcher needs to license or purchase the rights, depending on the nature of the project, in order for the image to be available for legal use.
An image researcher may belong to a professional organization. This can confer a number of benefits, including access to unique databases, continuing education and listings, making it easier to find researchers in your fields or researchers dealing with subjects of interest. Keeping detailed records is essential, as is establishing connections with people who have access to sources. A good image searcher has an encyclopedic knowledge of information and can start thinking about sources and avenues of search almost as soon as the client starts talking about what he is looking for.
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