Image search

To select images by keyword, type your words into the keyword window at the top right of your screen. Do not include commas or full stops.

Keyword Phrases:
You may wish to search for known specific phrases such as "Edinburgh Castle " or “Forth Bridge”. Should you wish to do this you must insert the keyword phrase in “double quotes” - not single quotes in the Image Search box and click on GO.

You may use AND, OR, NOT in between keywords as required. Keywords separated by spaces will have the same effect as using and.

Examples:
Edinburgh and Castle will find images which contain both Edinburgh and Castle

Edinburgh Castle will find images which contain both Edinburgh and Castle

Edinburgh or Castle will find images which contain either Edinburgh or Castle or both

Edinburgh not Castle will find images which contain Edinburgh but not Castle i.e. it will exclude Edinburgh images containing Castle.

By default the keywords will respond to a partial word match, i.e. the keyword fly will include the words flying and flyer. To ensure that variations on your keywords are not found, check the exact word match box.

Click 'go' to begin your search.

Viewing

Once search results are displayed you can select the number of thumbnails you see per page from the pull-down menu.

The total number of images found and the number of images displayed on the current page are shown at the top of the page.

To navigate through the different pages click on the page number you wish to view or click on the arrows to move forwards or backwards through the pages.

Below each image the image reference number is displayed along with the image title. Below these are icons to add the image to the lightbox or basket, click the icon to add an image - the colour change indicates the status change. Click the icon again to remove the image from the basket or lightbox.

Click on the enlarge icon or the image itself to go to the image preview and see the enlarged image and image details. Also listed here are the keywords attached to the image. Use these to broaden the search using one of the keywords, or to narrow the search (search within a search) by checking the appropriate option below the keywords and clicking on the selected keyword.

Also displayed are the pixel dimensions of the image, the image size in MB uncompressed and the size at which the image will reproduce at 300dpi. The copyright status and photographer name are also shown.

You can add images to the lightbox or basket from the preview screen, or click back to return to the search.

Lightbox
(you must be registered and logged on to use this facility)

You can create as many lightboxes as you wish. They will be automatically saved for subsequent visits and will remain until you chose to delete them.

The name of the lightbox that is currently active is displayed in the top strip, alongside it is the number of images in that lightbox.

To view your lighbox select 'view' from the lightbox pull-down menu or click on the lightbox name in the top strip.

To create a new lightbox, delete a lightbox, change the name of a lightbox or delete a lightbox, select the appropriate option from the pull-down lightbox menu.

Add images to a lightbox by clicking the lightbox option below each image. To remove an image from the lightbox, go to the lightbox click the remove icon below the image and save the lightbox.

To add notes to the lightbox, enter the lightbox amend the notes and click the button to save the lightbox.

To e-mail a lightbox enter the lightbox, click on the e-mail icon, enter the email address you are sending to, add your notes and send.

The recipient will receive a link to the lightbox you have created, they do not need to be signed in or registered to see the lightbox.

You can add an image to the basket from within the lightbox by clicking the basket icon below the image.You can also click on the 'Add Lightbox to basket'link to add all images contained in the Lightbox to the basket.

Basket

This section allows the user to enter all the relevant image usage details and download the images from the site.

Click the 'edit' button beside the image to select from the menus beside that image and check the price for the individual usage.

'apply to all' will apply these choices to all the images in the basket.

'remove' will remove the image from the shopping basket.

Once you've finalized your choice, the high resolution images will be available for download. Having received the image you are able to use it immediately for the agreed purpose within the guidelines described in the terms and conditions.