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Integrate Photo Center's focal point (and smart cropping) in the Author Service

We have somewhat revamped our site, with columnist headshots overlaid with a circular mask in certain spots. Occasionally, the headshots are not centered. Sometimes, they are partially cut off. It would be terrific if we could set a focal point on...

Created 04 Nov 20:54 by Steven Proceviat

Photo Center

0 Needs review
11 Vote

Restore user names to gallery presence indicator

This is a request to please reconsider the display of users' names in Photo Center when multiple people are editing a gallery, that was changed in 1.83.2 to the generic “Photo User”. Knowing there is someone else editing the gallery you’re trying ...

Created 02 Aug 02:02 by Brian McAlister

Photo Center

2 Future consideration
17 Vote

Allow organisations to set a size limit for images uploaded to Photocenter

Despite us asking our editorial team to only upload files no larger than 3mb etc, some users upload raw images that are huge - 20+MB into PhotoCenter. We incur additional bandwidth costs, but more importantly, the images that the resizer outputs a...

Created 19 Jul 20:09 by Toni East

Photo Center

0 Future consideration
21 Vote

Ability to schedule photo galleries to publish in the future

Our lifestyle brands publish a fair amount of standalone photo galleries, yet in Photo Center there is not currently any way for them to schedule this content to go live in the future. Can we please add scheduling functionality that is consistent ...

Created 13 Sep 20:46 by Toni East

Photo Center

1 Future consideration
3 Vote

Show Gallery Activity

Show Photo Activity is a very handy way to track individual image use in galleries and stories alike, for tracking down places where urgent caption or description changes must be made. The same feature would be equally handy to track photo gallery...

Created 28 May 17:23 by Brian McAlister

Photo Center

1 Future consideration
13 Vote

implementation of the WebP image format within our system as it offers superior compression efficiency and is highly recommended by Google.

I would like to suggest the implementation of the WebP image format within our system as it offers superior compression efficiency and is highly recommended by Google. WebP is a modern image format developed by Google that provides significant adv...

Created 28 Sep 13:54 by Guest

Photo Center

3 Future consideration
1 Vote

Support editing and saving IPTC and XMP metadata in Photo center and save the photo binary with the metadata

Wire photos and staff-produced photos are ingested into Photo center through feeds. These images contain IPTC and XMP metadata, either provided by the wire source or embedded by staff photographers. Photo editors are required to modify this metada...

Created 17 Sep 02:04 by Guest

Photo Center

1 Future consideration
4 Vote

Map IPTC/EXIF Alt Text field to Photo Center

There is currently no way to automatically populate Photo Center's Alt Text field upon upload. I would propose that the Alt Text field added to IPTC/EXIF/Photo Mechanic in 2021 be mapped directly to Alt Text field within Photo Center upon upload. ...

Created 03 Feb 18:02 by Brian McAlister

Photo Center

1 Future consideration
30 Vote

Need a visual clue that the photo has had a focal point set

Currently if you set a focal point on a photo in Photo Center the user has no visual indication that a focal point has been set. There should be some visual clue to indicate someone has set a focal point - like the X-Y coordinates you see in the F...

Created 13 Nov 19:58 by Lynda Finley

Photo Center

10 Future consideration
17 Vote

Improve the search for an image in Photo center

It would be very useful if we could search in the Photo center search bar in the same way as in Composer. In particular, we want to be able to search for an image by "exact terms" contained in the slug, caption, tags... of the image when using quo...

Created 18 Mar 18:22 by Marion Souzeau

Photo Center

4 Planned