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Revision as of 22:36, 27 February 2015
Contents
Overview
If you are creating a new Podcast that is not associated with another pre-produced review, spotlight or other type of script, it is very likely that you will have to find your own image and size it to fit within the Podcast play window. This section will guide you through the resizing process, as well as to help you find a proper, royalty-free image.
- NOTE: This process is ONLY necessary if there is no image associated with an original written work that is already published on the KDHX website, under the category of the new piece that you are uploading. If you are uploading a Local Artist Spotlight or other piece that has no associated, previously published written content, then you will need to use this process.
Finding an image
Each individual podcast episode must have a unique episode image, separate from the program or album art. This is the image that displays with your episode post at kdhx.org/ondemand and in the RSS Subscription feed.
Images should be as interesting and relevant to your podcast as possible. However, you may not just grab any image from the Internet. You will need to get permission for any original image that you include with your podcast, including a photo credit wherever possible.
Ideally, the image that you use will come from your guest, pre-approved for publishing, and will include photo credits. It is a good habit to request a web-ready image when booking your guest and following up immediately after recording.
The preferred orientation is landscape (horizontal), the size will be 560 pixels wide by 316 pixels tall, using the web standard of 72 dpi. Image formats can be jpg, gif or png.
Internet image resources
If the topic is general and the guest has not provided an image for our use, you should not spend hours hunting for the perfect photo. Spending a little time searching to find an excellent and relevant image however, is worthwhile. There are many useful, copyright free images available from the following sources:
- This is an awesome resource for KDHX, as Sara Finke is a professional photographer who does great work and has given us blanket permission to use her photos from Flickr, as long as she receives credit and a link back to her website.
- A database of over 24 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
- The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.
- You may need to log into Flickr to save these images.
- Free library of images. You will need to sign up for a free account. When searching, ignore the premium images and use the community images. Use images that say Standard Restrictions apply. Those are images that we can freely use.
The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries
- Thousands of photos taken by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duty are free of copyright and free to use.
- PublicDomainPictures.net is a repository for free public domain images.
- High resolution stock photos for illustration, comp or design needs.
- Search engine for free photos, coming from many sources and are license-specific.
Free Public Domain Photo Database
- Royalty free, public domain stock photos.
- Contributors have offered their images free of charge under terms of Creative Commons licensing
- Free and premium stock photos and illustrations for websites, advertising materials, newspapers, magazines, ebooks, book covers and pages, etc.
- PicFindr searches the web for stock photos that are completely free to use commercially.
Resizing an image
If the image is not landscape format, for example wider than is long, Media Core will stretch it to fit the wider format. To avoid this, you will want to add a background. The final resized goal is 560 x 316 pixels at 72 dpi.
1. Open Pixlr
We recommend using the Pixlr online image tool.
- - Go to pixlr.com/editor and choose Open Image from Computer.
2. Open your image
- - Find your image, open it
- - Click Image => Image Size and change the height to 316.
- - Click OK, leaving Constrain Proportion checked and allow the width to change accordingly.
Resize
- - Click Canvas => Canvas Size and alter it to 560 x 316.
- - Click the center box under Anchor and then Save.
- - This should result in a new centered image on a white 560 x 316 background in landscape format.
