Monday, February 2, 2026

Shrinking and wrapping the copyrights to own imagery

The new web site is "responsive" or so they say. Large images are sliced and diced into smaller versions for display on a small device window, saving load time. The smarty-pants part is it figuring out your screen across the board.

Checking what was viewable and what the image tags looked like, I grabbed a bunch  / with a tip of the sombrero to online:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4602153/how-do-i-use-wget-to-download-all-images-into-a-single-folder-from-a-url

$ ls -l *rocky*

spot lighters   77360 Jun 20  2025 6855cb[*]_rocky horror_9235210_orig-p-500.jpg

spot lighters  211763 Jun 20  2025 6855cb[*]_rocky horror_9235210_orig.jpg

I used the A list "ico, SVG, svg, jpeg, jpg, bmp, gif, png, heic" but no SVG came through. And PDF failed in a robotic way.

The p-500 means the file got downsized by the automat to fit in a 500-pixel holey window.

$ exiftool *rocky* | egrep "^File Size|^Image Size"
File Size                       : 76 KiB
Image Size                      : 500x752

File Size                       : 207 KiB
Image Size                      : 532x800

Cut about 2/3 in size for only 500 pixels versus 532.

One has the tags I embossed, at least on the largest chunk.

  31698 Dec 21 01:00 69473f12[*]0c_D48a-p-500.jpg
  68603 Dec 21 01:00 69473f12[*]0c_D48a-p-800.jpg
  81388 Dec 21 01:00 69473f12[*]0c_D48a.jpg

PDF tag? sure, why not.

$ strings *D48* | grep -i spath
  <pdf:Author>Jim Spath</pdf:Author>
$ strings *D48*500* | grep -i spath
$ strings *D48*800* | grep -i spath

On the other site, images over 2000 pixels wide get de-tagged.

Spotlighters-Purchase-Tickets-Icon_Ticket-2.jpg
Your image was automatically resized to 2000x1085 pixels. 

Spotlighters-Logo.jpg
Your image was automatically resized to 2000x882 pixels. 

Once that happens, the tell-tale is a different processor. I'm guessing GD beneath, maybe Python middleware?

$ jhead  Spotlighters_Purchase_Tickets_Icon.jpg
File name    : Spotlighters_Purchase_Tickets_Icon.jpg
File size    : 126559 bytes
File date    : 2026:01:31 22:13:11
Resolution   : 2000 x 1085
JPEG Quality : 75
Comment      : CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), default quality

Fixer upper: 

$ time exiftool   -author="Art Ist"   -copyright="CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" -subject="Art"    -title="For Spotlighters"  -datetime="2026-01-31 00:00:00"  Logo-2000x882.jpg
    1 image files updated

What else?
 Oh, yah. Pictures or it didn't happen.



Still looking for where I snipped off the orientation.


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