Hi,
Did you manage to sort this issue?
Hi,
no, I didn’t and unfortunately nobody answered.
As a photographer myself I am very unhappy to find that this is happening because metadata is very important for EVERYONE that handles images.
Here are a few reasons why:
Copyright and other rights associated with the image
Contact information of copyright holders and licensors
Image content
Artworks, buildings and people portrayed in the image
Search terms (keywords)
Technical details of the photography
Rights restrictions for use of the image
Rights granted under a licence to use
I had the same issue, which is totally unacceptable, so I did a bit of research. The good news is there is a way to preserve the essential metadata… I hope to post more in the future but for now here is what I found thanks to my photographer colleague at http://www.photometadata.org
Here’s how to fix it: http://www.tuchesaufntish.com/2011/05/27/preserving-metadata-in-images-uploaded-to-wordpress-sites/
You may have noticed the bad colours on thumbs and poor saturation of your images on WP… I think you will find IM as described a huge improvement.
Best
Wow, that’s great, thanks! exactly what I needed and I haven’t been able to find online myself 🙂
Now, I only need to figure out how to install the ImageMagik mode, as my PHP doesn’t seem to have it 🙁
cheers!
It’s incredible that there isn’t more info out there that deals with this issue, that’s why I am now going to actively support a campaign for metadata! 🙂
I don’t know why people tolerate having their images stripped of essential metadata in this way, perhaps many people don’t even realise it’s happening.
I am lucky, my host runs ImageMagick as well as the usual GD.
Here’s someone who had the same problem, there’s an excellent comment by David Riecks who has helped me a great deal, hope this helps you too.
http://www.steveatkinsphotography.com/2011/10/the-old-man/
or http://bit.ly/t02GZi
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I totally agree with you!
thanks again!
Here’s someone who had the same problem, there’s an excellent comment by David Riecks who has helped me a great deal, hope this helps you too.
http://www.steveatkinsphotography.com/2011/10/the-old-man/
Thankyou for sharing & supporting this tonlupi. 🙂
In the longer term we’re working to automatically link the metadata from within the photo directly into the wordpress search engine. At the moment I’m having to link it manually (copy & paste). If anyone has advice please share…..
