Soon - New website design

[Tuomas Romu]

I noticed that photographs uploaded since the beginning of March have "Shipspotting.com ... Image Copyright

[Hugo Vieira]

Hello ShipSpotters,

The "Full Screen" situation will be rectified in the coming weeks.

A few remarks about the photo's copyright footer:

• This was an executive decision to be applied to all new and existing photographs uploaded to ShipSpotting.com
• There is no opt out mechanism for this feature
• The footer is added to the original photo extending it's size and not cropping nor obscuring any part of the photo as a watermark would
• There is no additional compression applied to the photo, so the original compression level and quality is maintained
• User's Name is used for the copyright, if not available then the "username" is selected for the copyright
• The footer is not scaled to the size of the photo so it doesn't get out of phase with the main focus, which is the photo itself
• It is easily removable yes, because it is added to the photo and not burned into as other options such as watermark would be
• This is a deterrent measure for any infringement, not a full proof system, additional measures in this direction will be implemented such as:
  
  • making the Full Screen photo available only to registered users
  • disabling "download" features over the photo presented in the Photo page

On another subject, I have to say that sadly Emmanuel L. from Malta has retired from his ShipSpotting hobby due to heath issues, he sends his thanks and greetings to everyone.

Regards,
Hugo Vieira
The ShipsSpotting.com Development team

[Tuomas Romu]

A few remarks about the photo's copyright footer...

Thank you for answering.

May I propose omitting "image copyright

[Tuomas Romu]

I tried re-uploading one of my older photographs and unfortunately it seems that the website changes something (color space?) when it adds the footer even if there's no recompression; see example as attachment. After the server-side footer addition, the red saturation level seems to be significantly lower and the vessel looks more "washed out".

[csaba]

Hello Hugo,
Do you think something can be done re locations? The ports of Bar and Kotor are shown as if they are in "Serbia and Montenegro".

 This country does not exist any more, hasn't existed for more then 15 years.  Kotor and Bar are in Republic of Montenegro, NOT Serbia and Montenegro.

I mentioned this before couple of times but not reply. Makes the new and improved website look outdated and uninformed. And we have few members from Montenegro.

Many thanks for your reply.

[Richard Paton]

I asked a question a while back as to why a sharp photo uploaded by myself becomes less sharp once it's posted to the site - i'm still awaiting an official answer

[Hugo Vieira]

Tuomas Romu,
- Regarding the proposal of omitting "image copyright

[Richard Paton]

Hugo thanks for getting back to me appreciate that.

The photo in question was a recent addition in the past few weeks, not the one from December 2021.

But having gone back to it tonight it is sharp as a tack so whatever tweak (if any) has been done to the photo page display seems to have done the trick as i see no softening now.

[csaba]

Thanks for the response Hugo. Much appreciated.

[b47b56]

Hello.

I can't upload photos for vessels without IMO when Irrelevant butoon marked.
If anybody has same problem?

Regards, Evgeniy.

[Pieter_Inpijn]

Yes me, since 15.30 hours today.

[seaweasel]

Hello everybody,
I have similar problems with uploading photos since yesterday. Uploading was unsuccessful with entering "irrelevant" at the IMO and location boxes. I only managed to upload the picture by entering a fake IMO (for a vessel which does not have a IMO number) and false location which I deleted as soon as the picture was uploaded successfully. Also all slashes in the description were replaced by a combination of several characters which had to be corrected by me. Annoying and time consuming.....

Cheers, Hans

[Simon Harrack]

Unfortunately I have the same problems with uploading the photos as the others.
I hope for an improvement as soon as possible.

[Tomislav Raymondi]

Today while I was uploading photos to the website, for the first time it happened that the photos could not be uploaded because they were taken in Concepci

[pieter melissen]

Today while I was uploading photos to the website, for the first time it happened that the photos could not be uploaded because they were taken in Concepci