This has probably been said before, but in my opinion it can’t be said too many times. As a frequent identifier (mainly of birds) I want to help others ID their photos, but too often the photo is unzoomed and it’s hard to see relevant field marks. Not only does cropping the photo help human identif…

For a moment I thought the title read “A place to crop your photos!” But I do think that is also pretty important, since there are many different ways people upload photos to iNat. While it might seem like a pretty simple thing, knowing how/where to crop your photos while preserving metadata is pre…

Since I upgraded to a more recent (13pro) iPhone, I have often been cropping the photos on the phone that I submit to iNaturalist, and the needed metadata (date, time & GPS) remain. Most computer photo editing program that I have dealt with have an option to retain metadata, although it is often di…

I do a lot of photo editing and have never lost any metadata on an image unless I specifically set the software to delete it, or if I copy the image to a new canvas that has its own different metadata.

My metadata is preserved when cropping on the iPhone where the photo was taken AND when I use the native Preview app on a MacBook Pro.

Perhaps for people who would lose the metadata cropping and then saving with a program like, say Photoshop: perhaps the original unedited photo could be submitted to the site and after it uploads as an observation you could go to edit option and add the cropped image, untick the original, and then s…

Cropping is just the beginning. How many times have I seen an observation of a shadowy background with a slightly-less shadowy organism? And yet, my phone camera’s edit function does include the option to adjust the exposure, brightness, contrast, highlight, and shadow. Yes, these can all be used to…

Sounds like an issue with the editing program you are using. Most will transfer the meta data to the new file.

[image] imwolfe: the image will have already been shrunk by some percentage, obscuring the details Yes. Very important point

Be careful what you wish for. Cropped photos are often just artifacted garbage, depending on how they are done. Often completely useless to ID from. Only crop if you know what you are doing. Otherwise, don’t crop.

A plea to crop your photos!

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pisum September 6, 2022, 3:59am 16

folks wanting to have new functionality to crop in the web uploader should probably discuss over at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/incorporate-basic-image-editing-tools-crop-rotate/1223/38.

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A plea to crop your photos!

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