Transcript Online Image Databases - Colorado State University

ONLINE IMAGE
DATABASES
and Creative Commons licenses
Image basics
• Resolution
• Web: 72 dpi
• Print: 300 dpi or greater
• Format
• Photos: .jpg
• For web, compress to lowest acceptable quality (0-100)
• For web, crop and resize to lowest acceptable physical size (e.g. 150px
by 100px)
• .Simpler imagery: .png, .gif
• Best for images with large areas of flat color
• Both support transparency
• .gif’s support animation
Licensing Your Own Work
• CC has a License Wizard to help you choose best type
• http://creativecommons.org/choose/
• It’ll return the most appropriate license along with the
code to embed it onto a webpage
• It also allows the viewer to click through to learn more
about the license
Flickr: Adding A Default License
• Go to You>Your Account at top of page
• Choose Privacy and Permissions tab at top of page
• Choose Edit at the right of “What License will your
content have?”
• Choose your license
Flickr: Uploading Images
• Choose Upload at top of page
• Add title, description, tags in second step
• Colorado State University, Extension are suggested
• Add “© Colorado State University” to description
• All rights should already be reserved from the default
license setting
• Keep privacy settings reasonably public
Flickr: Working With Existing Licenses
• License type usually in lower right
• Click text for more specifics
• At top: Explore>Creative Commons>Choose License
type
• Use the search function within License category (e.g. community
gardens), so you can get legally usable images that match your
search
Flickr: Downloading Images
• Don’t just right-click and save
• To download
• Just above picture: Actions>View All
Sizes
• Choose best size, then click Download
the ___ size of this photo
Google: Working With Existing Licenses
• Use Advanced Search to help pare down legally
available images
• Check the rights on specific images after you find them
• Much broader search than Flickr
• Blogs, Websites, Flickr, Wikipedia Commons
• License type is usually below image
• Depends on where image is housed
Bugwood
• http://www.bugwood.org/
• Legal restrictions depend on image
•
Click image, look to lower right for license
• Many sizes usually available
AgImage Database
• http://www.ext.colostate.edu/staffres/agimage.html
• Name: agimage
• Password: 4917846
• Legal: Copyrighted Images for use by CSU Extension
personnel only; non-CSU personnel may contact M. S.
McMillan or H. F. Schwartz for information on purchasing
copies of these images for other uses. Please credit the
source of images selected for CE presentations, e.g.,
CSU AgImage - J. Doe
USDA/NRCS
• http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/
• Legal: If you use any of these photos in a publication, on
a web site, or as part of any other project, please use one
of the following credit lines:
• Photo by (photographer's name), USDA Natural Resources
Conservation Service.
• Photo courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
• Photo courtesy of USDA NRCS.
• These photos may not be used to infer or imply NRCS
endorsement of any product, company, or position. Please
do not distort or alter the images the photos portray.
NREL
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• http://www.nrel.gov/data/pix/
• Low resolution are free, high resolution cost $40.
• Legal: We request that, as a courtesy, you acknowledge
DOE/NREL for all images used, and give appropriate
credit. Credits can be found by clicking on the numbers
above the thumbnail images. An appropriate credit line
can read like this: "Courtesy of DOE/NREL, Credit Warren Gretz." If there is not room to include the full
credit, "Courtesy of DOE/NREL" is acceptable.
CSS Cumulus Images
• http://ccs-
cumulus.ucm.colostate.edu:8080/Cumulus/ng/index.jspx
• Username: coopext
• Password: ECT09
• Legal: Copyrighted Images by CSU Photography for use
by CSU Extension personnel only; requires attribution and
caption identifying CSU. Non-CSU Extension personnel
may contact CSU Photography at (970) 491-5471 or
[email protected] for licensing information
More resources
• Creative Commons
• http://creativecommons.org/
• eXtention 30 Minute session on CC
• http://www.extension.org/learn/event/17
• Larry Lessig, TED.com on copyright law and creativity
• http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_str
angling_creativity.html