AI image tags: label every product picture

Image tags is the second type of AI-Powered rule. The AI looks at every picture in a field - usually additional_image_link - and writes one tag per link into another field, in the same order. Your pictures are never changed or removed: the rule only adds the tags. Part of the AI Optimizer module.

The tags

• product - the whole product on a plain background.
• lifestyle - the product in a room or in use.
• close_up - part of the product, still a good photo.
• info - text, badges or measurements on the picture.
• bad - a close-up of a spot you cannot tell the product from.
• A link the AI could not see gets a technical tag instead - broken, blocked, timeout or not_checked - and is tried again on the next update.

Set it up

1. Create the field for the tags first, if you do not have one: in the Rules tab use New Column (for example image_tags).
2. Open the data source, click AI Optimizer and then Create new AI-Powered Rule.
3. Give the rule a name and, if needed, filter the products it applies to.
4. Set Rule type to Image tags.
5. 1) Pictures field - the field with the picture links, one link per line, like image_link or additional_image_link.
6. 2) Write tags to - the field from the first step.
7. 3) Product name field - usually title. It is sent with each picture and helps to tell one item of a set from a close-up.
8. Click Changes preview - up to 10 products are tagged for real, so you see the result before saving. Nothing is written to the catalog.
9. Click Save Rule, then switch the rule on with the Status switch in the AI-Powered Rules list - a new rule is saved switched off.

On the next update the tags are in the field: line 1 of image_tags belongs to link 1 of additional_image_link, line 2 to link 2, and so on.

Tags are kept per picture link. On later updates only new or changed links go to the AI - a catalog that keeps its pictures costs nothing extra to keep tagged. The first run of a large catalog takes longer.

Using the tags

• Find products that need better pictures: filter rules or feed exports by image_tags Contains info or bad.
• See at a glance which products have lifestyle pictures and which have only plain product shots.
• Spot broken picture links - broken in the tags field means the link did not open.