A single frame published on a local page — a wire or staff photograph labeled “Panthers Texans Football” and paired with a terse, weather‑style line — crystallized a familiar but avoidable editorial tension: vivid visual storytelling versus the metadata and verification practices that protect...
A striking staff or wire photograph labeled "Panthers Texans Football" ran on a regional page alongside a short, weather‑style caption — a small editorial choice with outsized implications for verification, metadata stewardship, and audience perception.
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The single photograph credited to the Idaho State Journal from the Patriots–Commanders preseason gallery is a small, vivid example of how modern sports images travel, carry hidden technical metadata, and create both editorial value and legal risk for anyone who downloads, republishes, or edits...
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Photographs from the Patriots–Commanders matchup that appeared across regional outlets this week underscore a familiar truth: in modern sports coverage, a single image is equal parts journalism, metadata package, and a potential legal — or privacy — landmine for anyone who downloads, edits, or...
I'm aware of how EXIF values work to indicate how an image should be rotated to be right way up. But that runs into problems when using software that doesn't automatically orient images according to the EXIF values.
What I want is to be able to fix images so that they are the right way up, and...
Consider the following scenario: You have a computer running Windows Vista or later. A Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) compatible Scan Device is installed which supports the JFIF and EXIF file formats. You select New Scan from the Device Properties. You...
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Hello Folks, I'm a newbie to this forum so I hope I'm posting this in the correct place.
I recently photographed a lot of old farming letters. They are of many different shapes and I would like to print them all to a single PDF file. To do that I show all the photos (in JPEG format) in their...