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Announcing Portfolios

AlanSh
Nov. 26, 2023
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    ArvoJ
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    Dec. 4, 2023, 9:35 p.m. Dec. 4, 2023, 9:35 p.m.
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    @MikeFewster has written:

    What security does Portfolios have?

    Like Alan said, currently there is none and there can't be one.

    Unsplash has no limitations, most likely authors do not sell those images - or use that site as (free?) advertising medium.
    Flicker has no limitations (or I have not seen any; I haven't almost never browsed it).
    Stock image sites use extensive semi-random watermarking - this is not suitable for photo galleries.
    Some posters on some sites add nice frames and signatures to images - this doesn't avoid downloading, but some work is needed to "clean up" such image.
    Hidden watermarks (steganography) are possible, but those can only be extracted and checked from unprocessed (or not heavily processed) digital images - no one will try to find them on t-shirts or on other printed media.
    We could in future make portfolios accessible only by logged-in members (optional of course) - but this does not help against someone creating account, downloading images and using them in other places - you even won't know that.
    We could exclude images from web scanning by search engines - but this is only hint and won't help against direct download.

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    minniev
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    Dec. 5, 2023, 3:14 p.m. Dec. 5, 2023, 3:14 p.m.
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    I'm about to send you 12 photos to do a portfolio set for me. Question: If we want to remove them and send you a new set of 12 at some later time, is that possible? I just sorta grabbed random photos for this, and would like to change it out in due time (when I have more time to gather a group that makes sense).

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    AlanSh
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    Dec. 5, 2023, 4:27 p.m. Dec. 5, 2023, 4:27 p.m.
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    I've published your pictures here www.the-photo.org/minniev-port.html

    At the moment, you have to send me new ones. In the fullness of time, you will be allowed to change your own, but that will not be for a while. I know what needs to be done, but it's whether the current server environment will let me do it (it won't at the moment, I need to see if the changes I want are allowed).

    Alan

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    AlanSh
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    Dec. 10, 2023, 4:40 p.m. Dec. 10, 2023, 4:40 p.m.
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    I've updated my portfolio with some images I took on my photo walk in York. Have a look here www.the-photo.org/alan-port.html and feel free to comment on anything in this thread.

    Alan

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    AlanSh
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    Dec. 17, 2023, 1:30 p.m. Dec. 17, 2023, 1:30 p.m.
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    I've added some pictures from PHZ (Paul) into his portfolio - some really nice images there. www.the-photo.org/phz-port1.html

    Enjoy

    Alan

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    davidwien
    Team 1676 posts
    Dec. 17, 2023, 5:39 p.m. Dec. 17, 2023, 5:39 p.m.
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    Portfolio pages look very nice now. Thanks!

    I assume that we are not now limited to only 12 photos. Correct?

    What do you consider optimum size for submitted photos?

    David

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    AlanSh
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    Dec. 17, 2023, 8:21 p.m. Dec. 17, 2023, 8:21 p.m.
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    Thanks David.

    Optimum size? Basically, as small as you think will suffice while still keeping the quality you want others to look at. The pictures that Paul sent to me ranged from 50mb down to 2Mb. I reduced them to roughly 3000 x 2000 (using Power Toys) and the sizes came down to 3Mb down to 600kb.

    No, you are not limited to 12 - it wsa just a number I came up with as a starter.

    Alan

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    davidwien
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    Dec. 17, 2023, 8:50 p.m. Dec. 17, 2023, 8:50 p.m.
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    Thanks, Alan. That info is very helpful.

    Best,

    David

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