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Reuters Pictures

10 Things To Know About RP

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1) Up to 1600 pictures per day within an archive of over

4 million pictures, available for professional users at

Reuters Pictures website (reuters.com/pictures). 200 of

the best pictures are keyworded each day

• Extensive archive of documentary pictures from 1995

• Keywords added to selected pictures since Feb 2007

• Keywords added to Pictures of the Month since 2003

• More editing of older pictures for keywording


2) Picture Packages of feature and news stories, thematic and illustrative content can be accessed at reuters.com/picturepackagesor click on the Packages link from the menu. Packages are divided into wider Topics such as Business, Entertainment, Conflict, Society, Health, Religion, Travel, Sport, Personality Profiles, Environment, Oddly and more. There are also more specific and globally-relevant Sub-Topics including Commodities, World Cup 2010, US Healthcare, Islam, Afghanistan War, Celebrity Profiles, City Guides, Crime, Clean Energy and Food & Drink and many more. All Picture Packages can be emailed to you by your Account Manager.….

• View Today’s Packages – for daily users

• Topics and Sub Topics

• Creative Use = Illustrative Content

• Search for Packages


3) Our award-winning Graphics are now available in Reuters Pictures. Delivered as jpegs or EPS files, they are editable in most design programs or can be re-skinned to your own design style. With a wide range of topics from an archive from 2008 onwards, the graphics are available on subscription or for pay-as-you-go usage.

Search for Packages or Graphics by clicking on the relevant tabs

Daily Graphics Page on RP


4) Get more from Reuters Pictures by changing

your Preferences - Set your viewing access up to

120 pictures per page, change your page layout,

batch download numbers or inform of an update

to your personal details.

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5) Search for only the best pictures by checking

the Top Pictures option in Topics to search from

only our Editors’ Pictures of the Day selection.

Use the Keyword Pics Only Topic to widen your

search to the best 15% of the archive. To find the

most iconic pictures from the archive, write Iconic

in the Search For field with your request (for

example: 911 Iconic or Iraq War Iconic)

• Iraq War search (over 10,000 pics)

• Iraq War & Top Pictures search (1800 pics)

• Iraq War Iconic search (160 pics)

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6) Over 30,000 keywords are used to describe the

content and emotion of the best pictures. Aspects

noted by our Keyword Editors include the age,

nationality, gender and race of the people in the

pictures to their actions and emotions, from the

weather conditions to the photographic

composition, from the social issue to the leisure

activity, from the business or industry type to the

lighting effect and much more.

Search examples…..

• Emotional politicians

• Healthy elderly people

• Stressed stock market trader


7) Useful keywords include Unrecognisable for sensitive search requests where a person is unidentifiable, Generic for when you need a general picture of a famous landmark or object (for example: Eiffel Tower Generic), Copy Text for when you need a picture with space for text, Nobody for pictures without people, Logo for simple searches for company and corporate logos or use Daily Life for when you need a picture depicting everyday life from a specific place. Click here to view the Reuters Pictures Search Guide for more tips on search and keywords

Caption: Power-generating windmill turbines

are seen at a wind park in Vauvillers, near

Amiens, northern France.

Keywords: France, Amiens, Wind Power,

Wind Turbine, Wind Farm, Power Station,

Electricity, Energy Industry, Green

Technology, Renewable Energy,

Sustainable Development, Environment,

Nobody, Sunset, Sunrise, Generic, Sun,

Copy Space


8) Use the Creative Use Topic when you want the very best illustrative pictures or browse the diverse range of Creative Use packages for those difficult to illustrate subjects such as Oil, Children, Crime, Good Food, Fast Food, Religion, Contrasts and many more. Extra consideration is given by our Editors to pictures that have less rights clearance issues


9) View the keywords under every enlarged image, or see associated packages by clicking on the “Packages containing this image” link

Keywords: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Conflict,

American, Man, Army, Soldier, Military, Rest, Sleep,

Tired, Top Pictures:

Packages containing this image:Afghanistan Conflict (Pesh Valley Patrol - 19 Aug 2009)

Afghanistan Conflict (The Battles Go on - 23 Feb 2010)

Pictures of the Year (Pictures of the Year 2009) Life! (Obama's First Year)

Pictures of the Decade (The Noughties)


10) General or mini-subscriptions to RP are available

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