Products for Revolutionaries #4: <http://picasa.google.com/> Picasa and <http://www.flickr.com/> Flikr
COSATU and its affiliates and allies have a need of good photographs, and especially of photographs of people: Of our members and our leaders, that show them in action and give an impression of their lives in an immediate way such as text alone can never do. Media releases could also be enhanced if photographs were made available, either attached to the e-mailed media release, or downloadable from a web site, for which a link could be given. A picture in a story promotes that story up-page. Now that high-resolution* photos are possible with affordable digital cameras, and even from cellular phones, there is no technical barrier between our popular movement and the creation of as many good photos as it can use. This brings us to another hurdle: How to archive, classify, store and make available all these images? So far, there have only been a few efforts to create "galleries" of images on some of our web sites We are not the first to arrive at the point where the archiving of images becomes a problem. The Internet is where the solution seems to lie. No organisations in the movement in South Africa announced that they are using products such as <http://picasa.google.com/> Picasa, <https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en_US&continue=http%3A%2F%2 Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Flh%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fpicasaweb .google.com%252Fhome&service=lh2<mpl=gp&passive=true> Picasa Web Albums, or <http://www.flickr.com/> Flikr. But if anyone has any knowledge or can point to examples of these or any other products that are fit for the purpose, please reply to this message. An example of a photographer who makes his images available on the Internet is <http://www.ismailfarouk.com/home/> Ismail Farouk, whose site, designed by <http://babakfakhamzadeh.com/> Babak Fakamzadeh, won an award in 2007. It is a "mash-up" of different elements, including Flikr. The two things that seem to be essential are: Easy search and browsing of the image archive; and the optional availability of high-resolution versions of any chosen image. *High resolution High resolution is taken to mean 300 dpi (dots per inch), whereas a computer screen achieves no better that 72 dpi. Therefore 300 dpi high-res images are a waste on the Internet. They come in big files and cause long download times. Even in an Internet image archive, they are not used, but may be linked to a higher-resolution version of the same image. For print, the opposite applies. Low-resolution images taken from the Internet are not adequate, unless with a lot of re-processing. High resolution is a necessity for print. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
