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  Color Profile and EXIF/IPTC/XMP

  

  Posted 31 Mar 08 in pxCream Tips

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  How to improve the quality of tags and picture description?

  I noticed that users tend not to add that many tags and even skip the picture description process. I need to find a way to make it easier for users to do so. Here are a few thoughts:

  - Linking keywords with categories and events (for example if you add your picture to the animal category and to your "African Safari" event, it will automatically add the keywords "animal, wild, nature" (related to the Animal category) and the keywords you decided to add to your event when you created it (back to a similar problem here, I need user to add keywords when they create events) for example "safari, cameroon, summer, africa". That's already 7 keywords painlessly added.

  - Linking keywords together. For example if you enter the keyword "car" it will automatically add the keywords; "drive", "wheels", "road", "driver"... for example. This has to work with a very smart code that notice which keywords goes well with another and propagate them automatically...

  - Allowing every user to tag other user pictures. You tag someone else picture and this one will have to accept (or not) the tags (like with facebook when someone tagged one of your picture).

  - Non tagged or non described pictures won't be authorised to reach the market place and the search motor. This will certainly encourage and "educate" users to tags/describe their pics.

  What are your thoughts, ideas??

  Posted 30 Mar 08 in pxCream Feedback

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  Your feedback

  Hi Ben,

  Thanks for your feedback, I'll try to answer to every point:

  - Uploading process time depends mostly on your connection speed. It's designed so that you can actually do something else when your pictures are uploaded. We are working on improving the image processing time and it will definitely be improve before going to production mode (afer beta).

  - A batch processing will be added so that large amount of (similar (events...)) pictures could be processed at the same time. But I have to emphases here the fact that pxCream goal is to advantage quality over quantity. The average user (target) is a photoblogger that doesn't upload massive amount of pictures, but more 1 picture / day or so.

  - The color profile issue is something I encounter too. The solution I found was to use the "save for web" option in Photoshop (making sure that the ICC box is checked). Than colors are safe and this no matter the internet browser used. Bad side is that the meta data are lost (camera EXIF information). It's a bug within Photoshop and I hope it will be fix one day... Anyway, it is planned to develop a desktop software (based on Adobe AIR technology) that will take care of the picture upload/process and hopefully handle the color profile actual issue.

  - Re: The aliased look. I don't see such difference when looking at your links. Maybe it comes from the fact that we are not seeing the same version (def) of the pic. I'm using a macbook pro 15" at the moment and it's the S5 (you can find that looking at the source code, the last letters of the picture file name) version of the picture that is shown to me. What do you have on your side?

  - You make a point with the navigation thing. I will reverse it (I have the funny feeling that I already've been reversing it a few times... )

  Thanks again for your feedback.
  

  Posted 30 Mar 08 in pxCream Feedback

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  How does that work for you?

  pxCream is based in Sydney. We know how the service loads and stuff down here. But what we don't know is how it behaves all around the world! So if you happen to be somewhere else than in Australia we would love your feedback (ok we take it too if you're in Australia... That's a big country after all. Anyone on pxCream from Darwin?)
  

  Posted 22 Feb 08 in pxCream Feedback