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Weekly Report n.57

Why we [still] use film...

=vaporiss:iconvaporiss: reports, 12h 49m ago
Visual explanation of why artists still use film.

T for TEEN!

=nerdynotdirty:iconnerdynotdirty: reports, 15h 45m ago
Some of the best photographers here on deviantART are a part of the younger crowd, here are some of my favorites!

The Four Seasons - Thumb Galore!

=mrhenrik:iconmrhenrik: reports, 23h 48m ago
A collection of dA's finest season shots!

we love...GREEN!

~LastInsanity:iconLastInsanity: reports, 23h 1m ago
green.

Colors:BLUE!

~XalexutzaX:iconXalexutzaX: reports, 1d 1h ago
blue blue blue :D

The year is 2525.

=SLPdomain:iconSLPdomain: reports, 1d 8h ago
The 21th century’s photographic documentation presents…?

Animals!Wild as you can get!

*Misantropia:iconMisantropia: reports, 1d 1h ago
Wonderful animal photography.Give your support to these artists.

BEAUTIFUL Children In BEAUTIFUL Photos!

*Lironada:iconLironada: reports, May 9
Some Beautiful Photos of Many Beautiful Children!

I'd rather trust your hand

*papillonelfique:iconpapillonelfique: reports, 1d 17h ago
because hands don't lie....

Photography News This Week

Red Light - Green Light

*brambura33:iconbrambura33: reports, May 6
thank you all for this beautiful works! :heart:

Got Style? II

~IceHuntress19:iconIceHuntress19: reports, May 8
A collection of style*

&. Greatest Story Ever Told - Prt 3

~Faerix:iconFaerix: reports, May 6
Enjoy my collection of love! =3

Separated At Birth? Dead Ringers!!

=intao:iconintao: reports, May 7
We have all heard of of separated at birth celebrities, stars etc.
but I have found if one looks carefully here on DA
there are some twins here as well!

I'm only happy when it rains

=alexa-k:iconalexa-k: reports, May 8
raaaaaaain :D

POLA BEAUTY

*ta-nya:iconta-nya: reports, May 8
Polaroid photography features

Inspirational - perfection in women

=Emeranie:iconEmeranie: reports, 1d 20h ago
Feature full of beauty & perfection.

The Best of Nature & Water Drops [Square Crops]

=dandelgrosso:icondandelgrosso: reports, May 7
A small collection of some of the best square cropped Nature & Water Drop deviations.

Umbrella

~lifelikerainbow:iconlifelikerainbow: reports, May 5
protect me from the rain, please !

Photography


Metadata and Copyright Protection

=cosfrog:iconcosfrog: reports, Nov 22, 2007
Do you embed metadata on all your images you post? You should, this is fast becoming an inportant and intergal part of copyright protection. Yes it can be easyly removed by bad people intent on stealing your image, but this falls under the section I previosly wrote about. Removal of copyright information is also a crime and removing metadata is just as bad as removing a watermark. Honest people will see the metadata and know to stay away from an image when it is offered.

Its simple to do in photoshop (easiest is to click file info), you can even set up a template and have it done in a batch process. Or with some programs it can even be part of your import process from card to computer automatically.

There are of course problems with it. For instance when using the 'save for web' option in photoshop instead of 'save as'....this will strip all metadata out of your image. Well there is a partial fix for this now, apperantly (I have not tried it yet) there is a patch/upgrade for CS3 (10.0.1) that among other things allows you to check a box that will make the 'save for web' function at least save the xmp metadata (an adobe standard) but does not do so still for the IPTC fields (an international standard read by all programs) So still stick to 'Save as' but the upgrade does do other things helpful.

Also I just learned from this article in the ASMP newsletter [link] that apparently myspace will automatically strip all metadata out of the image upon uploading, on the basis of privacy. May have to rethink my use of myspace....

Readin this I decided to run some tests on the dA images I uploaded. I have found that all but the original size image you see in full view do indeed strip out the metadata. I hope that this can be looked into here and corrected. Some of the other sizes are still usable and should have the info kept in.

Dont let this prevent you from using this tool, espically if you post images to your own website

Bottom line as with all things in image protection it can be defeated by assholes intent on stealing art but it is another tool that is simple to use and makes more people aware of your copyrights.

Put in at least your name, copyright and contact info so that it travels with your images.

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~Ketmara:iconKetmara: Nov 22, 2007, 1:32:22 PM
I never heard before about metadata :wow:

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=me-pawel:iconme-pawel: Nov 22, 2007, 3:44:27 PM
Why would metadata cause problems with privacy :O?

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~FloorS:iconFloorS: Nov 22, 2007, 4:12:59 PM
you're totally right about the metadata, it's a must if you publish your work on the internet. and indeed it's quite a simple thing to do.

And privacy problems, I don't know what got into the heads of those myspace guys...but I think you should decide for yourself, and it gets published on your page, so everyone will know it's yours... don't get them:P


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*cycoze:iconcycoze: Nov 22, 2007, 4:29:26 PM
If you use "save to web" you can use a tool like Exifer [link] to put it back onto the image, it does not add much to the file size, up to 11kb if memory serves me, have not used it for a long time, and it is an older program.

I realise that is not an overall solution but may help for peoples own web sites.

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*z-monster:iconz-monster: Nov 22, 2007, 6:38:12 PM
Metadata doesn't cause problems with privacy. Metadata has problems of its own since it can be striped from the image. For some reason it isn't a permanent part of the image in certain cases.

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=philho:iconphilho: Nov 23, 2007, 2:11:56 AM
IrfanView is a great lightweight, FREE image viewer, able to display and change IPTC metadata.
Note that IPTC information is present only in Jpeg images.

Doing mostly B&W ink works, I use extensively the PNG format, which has its own metadata format, in form of tEXt chunks, with standard fields like Title, Author and Copyright, or custom ones.
Alas, currently IrfanView doesn't preserve these fields when modifying an image (resize, crop...), so I use another free software, TweakPNG, to add (and view) these fields. When I don't forget... :(

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=philho:iconphilho: Nov 23, 2007, 2:14:02 AM
There are free softwares to manage metadata. See comment above your, and mine below...

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~mandragon:iconmandragon: Nov 23, 2007, 8:25:49 AM
very usefull news !

thanks cosfrog !

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