💾BeScouted Development Update: 2018 03 08 - Categories and Photo Search by Keywords💾
Hi, fellow photographers, retouchers, models, makeup artists, hair and wardrobe stylists and all other photography lovers. Today we have launched an update to BeScouted that allows you to find photos by categories and keywords.
We have been mentioning previously that visual content discovery needs a slightly different approach than that provided by Steemit. While Steemit works perfectly well for finding different written articles on the topics that you are interested in, since they are indexed by the search engines and provide your blog posts with massively increased exposure, the case is a bit different when it comes to image search.
Visual media exposure is consumed much faster. It takes milliseconds to evaluate the content and few more seconds to appreciate the specific piece that has attracted your attention. Hence, search by the keyword of the topic that you are interested in has to display multiple results that allow quick estimation and preferably instant action of your choice.
It also gets a bit tricky to follow all your favorite visual content creators if you are following different types of content producers on Steemit that are mixed with multiple resteems of people that you do not know, so sometimes you miss interesting posts of authors that your really enjoy engaging with.
My name is David, i am a photographer and retoucher, also i am CEO of BeScouted and this is a portion of my photo feed that displays images of talents that i follow and majority of them are Steemit members too sharing their work on BeScouted
![Following feed.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVwsugVawZaaTpjZeavvvUDu4xuhCbvXyVSksNSr11vD9/Following%20feed.jpg)
Here i can instantly see all new content uploaded by people that i follow and can leave a comment without exiting photo feed, that saves time. A lot of time. All the comments are also displayed on their Steemit blog simultaneously.
💾BeScouted Development Update: 2018 02 25 - Comments UI/UX improvemets to make commenting faster.💾
Increase your exposure and value of your rewards by adding Categories and Tags to your uploads.
The more people see your post the more chances you have to get more rewards. And i mean chances. Take your time to create your content that will be worthy of your viewers time, respect your audience. Recently we had a surge of content that clearly is being dumped recklessly by irresponsible authors in hopes of quick rewards. That will not work on BeScouted. All stolen content will also be removed from the platform, we want to build a community of fair and talented content creators based on trust and respect.
Categories is a completely new feature on BeScouted and will take a few days to populate but we strongly advice to go through your photos, at least the ones you have uploaded in the last 5 days and add categories in photo editing window.
![Edit categories.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmUEp3WCCQSBcMWPW8KqiB54jWf7ou3Vv1FcEJGGZugWn8/Edit%20categories.jpg)
Tags have been around for a while. They did not have much utility since they were implemented with a forward through and there was little incentive to take time and enter proper keywords, but now they will greatly increase your exposure and chances to get that whale upvote. There is no limit on number of tags you can add on BeScouted.
I was almost certain that search query by a tag "bike" will be dominated by @angel35mm as heard in Katie Melua- Nine million bicycles He has probably photographed all the bikers in the world lol At least all of them in NY. Twice. I have also noticed that i have missed a few of his posts and fixed the misdoing by upvoting them.
![bike.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRqUq1VFUf14Q5uhHHtfgyoMTsX9m6eZfM7mhnei6wBaF/bike.jpg)
⬇️And of course i just love fashion.⬇️
![fashion.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmVk7jWpDhaZZHppi55XhiPv7bdvjKZDNgVzGYoa4NaS3H/fashion.jpg)
👰⛪But fashion is expensive and i will probably need to find a wedding photographer soon...⛪👰
![wedding.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmR7gpxgrTqgJXcs5WYUJUcFcbkA2kh1dG5QQCu5XbeEMA/wedding.jpg)
With all seriousness now, we hope that you will like this new addition. It will help to increase your exposure and potentially your earnings. It may even help you to look for an inspiration and find new ideas for your photoshoots and by using our casting system will allow you to find models and other team members faster and easier by saving your time and grey brain cells.
And we will continue our work to offer you new features and tools and make your experiences on BeScouted better and more pleasant. At the same time we are preparing for our token presale and later SMT ICO.
If you are not on BeScouted yet, try us. If you already are invite your friends that love photography.
![Be_Steemit_1602x180.gif](https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmc3jx1PRGgEMosDhtHwWYQfoFsyroprctzB3deS84htHK/Be_Steemit_1602x180.gif)
I just discovered Bescouted tonight and I'm loving it. Beautiful UI and idea. Can't wait to upload more photos and start following other creators! Thanks so much!! @journeyfreedom Just thought of 2 questions. Is message the same as commenting on a post? And how can we find all of the info of the photo, i.e. title, datge and time posted, etc.?
Hi, thanks, glad you like it. Hope you will find it useful. Messaging has nothing to do with Steemit, you will message BeScouted users directly. And you find all the info about photo by clicking on it. You can see tagged photoshoot participants if there are any too.
Kindly asking as why you have downvoted my comment, i have shared my genuine views and also upvoted your post and most importantly i have not spammed my comment. In my opinion your action is not fair. Stay blessed. 🙂
Kindly answering that it appeared as a comment made by a bot since the wording seemed very suspicious and while i understand that English may be not your native language (as it is not mine) it came in so fast, much faster than it would take to go through the post :) Sincere apologies if it was my mistake, and i hope this kind answer will suffice. Have a great evening :)
Nice to hear that, kindly can you remove that downvote because in my opinion i don't deserve that downvote because i posted genuine comment. Stay blessed. 🙂
Done ;)
Thank you so much. 😊
Hello, I find this update very interesting and also all the ones that have been done since they facilitate the process of searching and commenting on the images. It's perfect for people who are new to your page, as in my case. Always one step ahead bescouted.com.
Your valuable help and support for all who are in that world of photofrafia, is what I most admire,
Greetings from Venezuela
What a good job they are doing, the changes provided they are for improvement are very positive. I really congratulate you for the hard work you have been doing. A thousand successes and that these new changes bring you many blessings and successes, and at the same time allow us, the lovers of photography, to delight in each work promoted through this beautiful project. Congratulations
information and content that samgat good,
This is great for photography lovers
Each of their posts will be provided by @bescouted.com
I often see bescouted posts and photo photos selected are all very nice.
I will tell my friend who likes to take pictures
Stay the best @bescouted.com
An update always required in any project because it can change an aspect of that and an small update can play an effective role and when it comes to keyword search then it plays an vital role in an content creation world. And i really liked your photo feed and you chose great work of different photographers. Thanks for sharing and wishing you an great day. ☺️
My friends at @bescouted.com, this new tool makes them grow more in the wonderful world of photography, and for us, we admire the work of your entire team, now it will be easier for us to congratulate them and give them luck. Anyone who is a photographer, model, make-up artist, stylists and hairdresser, should be happy to have you, since they work very well and all the photos they choose are unique, perfect and majestic, really friend you are a fantastic photographer. I hope things continue to go very well, and you continue to grow as professionals that are, I have nothing left to wish them much luck and thank you for sharing this information again with us.
Hello, very interesting what you write today in your post, and everything you do in favor of improving your publications and tools to simplify your work is welcome, it is also the case of the new people that arrived at steemit, and when we browse the different blog, to see his photographic work and call attention, in my case we learn from all your daily shows something new, seeing something different as a landscape, a flower, or just a child with some mischief, we feel the need to photograph. With all that you expose in the content these new tools will be of great benefit, for all that photographic world that is so broad and the good intention to improve the topics and very important to increase your profit. @ Bescouted.com
I'm happy for you, every time you have more things to add to your platform and that's good, the photographers, models, stylists, all that have to do with this world of photography and modeling has your support @bescouted.com I hope they keep moving forward and that it will always be for the best
Bescouted is always the best for photography lovers,
The content of the proposed content is very interesting,
any information is very useful for steemit users,
I am one of the many followers of your loyal followers @bescouted.com