I am putting the finishing touches to a photo gallery website. My customer is insisting that the copyright status and other metadata (copyright owner, description, etc.) is preserved when the pics are used on his site.
At the moment this information is being lost when I publish from Freeway (before I upload to the server).
This happens whatever format (GIF, PNG, JPEG) I specify for the pics in Freeway.
Freeway strips all the IPTC stuff out of the files it generates, as a
size-reduction and browser error-prevention measure. You can get
around this by resizing all of the images using Photoshop or another
application, using the normal File/Save, rather than Save for Web and
Devices, because I’m pretty sure that Save for Web strips these off as
well, for the same reason. Some versions of some (cough, PC) browsers
blow up dramatically when fed IPTC headers in the image files.
Walter
On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote:
I am putting the finishing touches to a photo gallery website. My
customer is insisting that the copyright status and other metadata
(copyright owner, description, etc.) is preserved when the pics are
used on his site.
Forgot to finish the thought – you then also have to bring them into
Freeway as Pass-through images. Otherwise Freeway will re-generate
them in the approved header-free manner.
Walter
On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
by resizing all of the images using Photoshop or another application,
I took a quick look at the site and right now you are using GIF - GIF and PNG don’t support EXIF, so you have to use JPEG. That said, you are right that Freeway strips out the EXIF. I just checked and there’s no doubt about it. Out of interest I also created a page in Rapidweaver and that doesn’t strip out EXIF. I am no expert on Freeway so we will have to wait for one to come along!
I don’t believe that RapidWeaver creates resized images on the fly –
doesn’t it just do the same thing as Freeway when you are using a pass-
through image, i.e. reference the original image, which must already
be in a Web-friendly format? If it allows resizing, I believe all it
does is rewrite the dimensions in the img tag, which isn’t truly
resizing anything.
Freeway, unless you tell it otherwise, never uses the original photo
except as a starting point for its own re-generated version. This is
why you can change the Quality setting in an Image Inspector and see
the file size drop precipitously, while your original file remains
safe and dry elsewhere on your Mac. This is also why you can place
300ppi enormous PSD files on your page in Freeway and get a standard
(and fast-loading) page when you publish your site.
Walter
On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Graham Hind wrote:
I took a quick look at the site and right now you are using GIF -
GIF and PNG don’t support EXIF, so you have to use JPEG. That said,
you are right that Freeway strips out the EXIF. I just checked and
there’s no doubt about it. Out of interest I also created a page in
Rapidweaver and that doesn’t strip out EXIF. I am no expert on
Freeway so we will have to wait for one to come along!