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RE: Collaboration on a Carousel of Swings
Well done pulling so much additional saturation and contrast without generating artifacts from noise inherent in the image or banding due to changes in values (ie: gradient from 1:3 becoming 1:7 across the same number of pixels).
I've had the same social/ethical concern when post editing another steemian's image, once or twice, but like you I interacted with the original author and posted the results in the original thread.
It'd be another matter if the original was just taken and used elsewhere without knowledge or consent.
Go team collaboration, great to see!
Thanks @neuromancer, my secret is masking out areas to they can be adjusted locally, it gives you more latitude even in a JPEG.
I have always been concerned with copyright and the ethical use of content. I started out working in imaging software and spent 12 years working in online media. While I am a software engineer by trade I started doing serious photography in 2011 where copyright became personal. I personally would never manipulate someone's work without their permission let alone publish it. There is a serious issue with copyright violation on Steemit, and I try to combat it by example and direct education; it is not my primary goal here on Steemit but very important to me.
It was very fulfilling to collaborate with another Steemit user. I am a fairly introverted person, but I would like to stretch beyond that and become more collaborative, so this is a very positive and exciting post for me.
Thanks for your comment, and I appreciate you calling out the ethical concerns explicitly for others that may read this and be educated by it.
Cheers,
@kellyjanderson
Yea, alpha channels rule.
All the same, large adjustments to saturation and contrast, particularly when starting from low saturation/contrast images, especially when the source is lossy compressed, can produce some nasty gremlins, but your managed a pretty clean result.
The specific mention of ethical approach was no more overlooked than it was unappreciated. I've noticed the problem behaviour here on steemit.
It's my hope that a better, more ethical, more collaborative form of conduct will rise by popular vote, thus promoting and encouraging those ideologies. And for those of a more philistine persuasion, demonstrate by reward and recognition that it is not only more favourable but it pays better too.
Thanks for initiating the collaboration, for creating this thread to share the process, and for engaging in the discussion on ethics. Now we just need as many people to see this as possible, and continue to support and promote collaboration and ethics.
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