Outside the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the museum queue keeps moving while armed soldiers cross the square. Visitors wait beneath the broad glass-and-metal canopy, somebody raises a camera, and a street vendor stands beside his bottles of water. A patrol passes through the same space. This is how heightened security becomes routine: people carry on with the small business of their … [Read more...] about High Alert Has Become Part of Daily Life in France
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Why sRGB Is Still the Right Colour Profile for Online Image Galleries
A photographer exports a set of images, uploads them to a gallery, and opens the page on a laptop. The reds look dull, the skies flat, the skin tones slightly grey. On the editing screen they looked rich. Nothing went wrong with the files themselves. The colour profile did. Every digital image describes colour as numbers, and a colour profile tells software what those numbers … [Read more...] about Why sRGB Is Still the Right Colour Profile for Online Image Galleries
What Content Credentials Can Tell You About a Photograph
Content Credentials can provide a signed record about a photograph's origin and processing history. They can help a viewer inspect which tool or organization signed information, what actions were recorded and how source material relates to a later file. That is useful evidence about provenance. It still leaves the editorial work of establishing what the photograph depicts and … [Read more...] about What Content Credentials Can Tell You About a Photograph
What an Image Caption Should Tell You That Alt Text Should Not
A caption and an alternative text description can refer to the same image while doing different editorial work. The caption usually gives visible context for the reader: where the scene is, why it matters to the article, who is involved when their identity is known, and who supplied the image. Alt text conveys the image's relevant information or function for someone who cannot … [Read more...] about What an Image Caption Should Tell You That Alt Text Should Not
Image Gallery Schema Explained: ImageGallery, MediaGallery and Structured Data for SEO
An image gallery can be perfectly clear to a visitor and surprisingly ambiguous to software. We see a collection of photographs, recognize its subject and understand that the pictures belong together. A machine encounters a web page containing text, links, image files, navigation and perhaps a video player. Schema.org structured data gives the publisher a way to describe those … [Read more...] about Image Gallery Schema Explained: ImageGallery, MediaGallery and Structured Data for SEO
Canva Launches Craft, an Image Model Trained on Design Templates Instead of Photos
Canva has shipped its first in-house image generation model. It's called Craft, it was built by Canva's own research team, and it's live for every Canva user right now in the Dream Lab tab. That's free and paid accounts alike. The model is also coming to the Canva API, and Canva says it plans to let people generate images with it from inside ChatGPT and Gemini through its MCP … [Read more...] about Canva Launches Craft, an Image Model Trained on Design Templates Instead of Photos
Making an Image Gallery Accessible: Alt Text, Captions and Keyboard Navigation
Put the mouse aside for a moment. Open an image gallery and try to reach a photograph, enlarge it, move to the next one and get back to the page using only the keyboard. It is a revealing little exercise. A collection can look beautifully simple while concealing a close button you cannot reach or a thumbnail that never becomes selectable. Making an image gallery accessible … [Read more...] about Making an Image Gallery Accessible: Alt Text, Captions and Keyboard Navigation
Image Gallery Backgrounds and Spacing: Give the Pictures Room
My first instinct with a sunset photograph is to put it on a dark background. It feels almost self-evident: dim the room, let the light in the picture do its work. Then I try a pale background and sometimes prefer that instead. The image acquires a clearer edge, the page feels easier to read, and the dark foreground becomes something I look into rather than something that … [Read more...] about Image Gallery Backgrounds and Spacing: Give the Pictures Room
How to Create an Image Gallery That Invites a Second Look
The McDonald's sign is staying. It sits beyond a set of ornate arches, bright and familiar in a photograph otherwise occupied by weathered plaster, decorated columns and elaborate ironwork. I can imagine the temptation to crop it out. The picture would become more comfortably historic, less interrupted by the present. But the interruption is what makes me look twice. An image … [Read more...] about How to Create an Image Gallery That Invites a Second Look
Media Gallery Image Sizes: Enough Detail Without the Wait
A media gallery can make two equally disappointing promises. One is a glorious full-screen photograph that takes so long to arrive you have already started doing something else. The other is an instant, immaculate grid whose pictures dissolve into mush when you open them. Somewhere between those experiences is a sensible balance: enough image detail for the viewing task, … [Read more...] about Media Gallery Image Sizes: Enough Detail Without the Wait