[OH-Publicity] UIUC photos (and photo style guide for blog)

[chaouche yacine]

It would be nice to install some sort of plugin to wordpress that allows the user to click on the image to zoom it in, then press the arrow keys to navigate to other photos. "There should be a plugin for that".

Yassine.



--- On Tue, 10/23/12, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
Subject: [OH-Publicity] UIUC photos (and photo style guide for blog)
To: publicity at lists.openhatch.org
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 9:38 AM

Hey all,

I'm working with Shauna on a blog post about the UIUC campus.openhatch.org event.

For Shauna, and all: A selection of good photos from the UIUC event are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulproteus/sets/72157631732465491/

One of the attendees took some other photos, but I don't think we've gotten a copy of them yet.

As a note for history, when preparing images for the blog, I generally:

* Scale the image to be 576 pixels wide (at the most, but usually one wants to go with the largest possible) while retaining the aspect ratio.

* I aim for a ~90KB JPEG max size, and I use Gimp to rescale the image. You can check a box when doing the export to JPEG to preview the quality, and then adjust the quality slider to get the size and nice-looking-ness that one wants.

* I don't link the image to anything. WordPress likes making images link to things, but I think it just makes for a really big link target that takes the user outside of the blog post and that's not what we want.

* For image credits, I presume that if I took the image for OpenHatch while at an OpenHatch event, it's (C) OpenHatch, and then I don't give credit really at all. (Upon reflection, it now seems to me that we should always credit images, even if they're (C) OpenHatch, so that life is simpler for people who want to reuse the images.) If it's someone else's photo, I credit the image usually at the bottom of the post, but sometimes just underneath the photo. If you're Mike Linksvayer and are, therefore, super crafty, you might do a slick overlay for image credit like at the top of https://openhatch.org/blog/2012/newsletter-october/

Others sometimes do things differently, so I thought I'd share my personal style guide. You don't have to consider this an official OpenHatch blog style guide, since there's not quite consensus on it, but maybe we can reach consensus and it would be.

(As a side note, we seem to have experienced some data loss on etherpad.mozilla.org AKA htmlpad.org per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804325 . I'm talking with Mozilla people on IRC (#it on irc.mozilla.org) but it doesn't seem super likely we'll get the data back at the moment. I feel particularly bad having asked Shauna to try it and then leading our data together into an abyss.)

-- Asheesh.
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