Author Topic: New large watermarked previews - no more zoom in (Read 2798 times)

Jo Ann Snover · « **on:** January 21, 2016, 11:31 »

I don't know how long this feature has been there, but I just noticed that iStock no longer has the zoom in and scroll around previews. They've gone to enlarged watermarked previews similar to DT, SS and 123rf.

iStock's are 1235 on the long edge and don't have any visible iD info (such as image number and the site). They also don't seem to have learned from SS's mistakes about including something other than white in the watermark. Strangely, iStock vectors have a different watermark from photos.

Here are links to the previews for iStock, SS and DT for the same photo as a comparison

http://i.istockimg.com/image-zoom/22795801/3/380/253/stock-photo-22795801-senior-couple-with-camera-on-beach.jpg
http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-senior-couple-with-camera-on-beach-121062712.jpg
http://www.dreamstime.com/comp.php?imageid=27959586&type=1

Here's an iStock vector watermark

http://i.istockimg.com/image-zoom/64184947/3/380/380/stock-illustration-64184947-elderly-couple-at-the-beach.jpg

In terms of size, SS is still the largest at 1500 px on the long edge, then DT and 123rf at 1300 and IS at 1235. AdobeStock brings up the rear at 1,000 px

Perhaps people want to look at their images to see how well the watermark protects them. Not clear if there'd be any response if improvements were asked for, but it's worth a shot for those who have a large portfolio there.

After someone told me the previews had been around a while, I realized that in Classic View (which I almost always use) you have the zoom-and-scroll, but in the new view, it's the large watermarked preview. Didn't someone say classic is going away?

B8 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2016, 04:55 »

Yes, I think they were originally going to take away Classic View all together by phasing it out after people got used to the new view. But I think contributors made a stink about it being useful in order to show linked lightboxes (amongst other things) so they have at least left it for now. Eventually they will probably just take it away I am assuming after this abatement.

Also, those big preview JPG files have actually always been there, but very few knew about it. There was/is a way to spoof the zoom script in Classic View to make the big JPG watermarked files pop out in a new window/tab. I used to do that myself to see them full screen.

With the new view though they just voluntarily appear when you click on the thumbnail now. So nothing has materially changed in a way because the zoom before was just showing a smaller crop of the bigger JPG preview anyway.

The only real difference in terms of the preview is now they let you have the full file without having to spoof the zoom script to get the large previews to pop out.

I just looked at one of the large previews I had saved from before when we only had the classic view and I spoofed the zoom tool to enlarge it. I see the measurements are 1235 x 923. The watermark is exactly the same too. So again, nothing has really changed in terms of the preview although they made it seem like they are giving us something bigger than before.

If I was able to spoof the zoom tool to get to the actual preview file before then I am sure many other web minded people were too.

Karen · « **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2016, 06:39 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 21, 2016, 11:31

I don't know how long this feature has been there, but I just noticed that iStock no longer has the zoom in and scroll around previews. They've gone to enlarged watermarked previews similar to DT, SS and 123rf.

iStock's are 1235 on the long edge and don't have any visible iD info (such as image number and the site). They also don't seem to have learned from SS's mistakes about including something other than white in the watermark. Strangely, iStock vectors have a different watermark from photos.

Here are links to the previews for iStock, SS and DT for the same photo as a comparison

http://i.istockimg.com/image-zoom/22795801/3/380/253/stock-photo-22795801-senior-couple-with-camera-on-beach.jpg
http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-senior-couple-with-camera-on-beach-121062712.jpg
http://www.dreamstime.com/comp.php?imageid=27959586&type=1

Here's an iStock vector watermark

http://i.istockimg.com/image-zoom/64184947/3/380/380/stock-illustration-64184947-elderly-couple-at-the-beach.jpg

In terms of size, SS is still the largest at 1500 px on the long edge, then DT and 123rf at 1300 and IS at 1235. AdobeStock brings up the rear at 1,000 px

Perhaps people want to look at their images to see how well the watermark protects them. Not clear if there'd be any response if improvements were asked for, but it's worth a shot for those who have a large portfolio there.

After someone told me the previews had been around a while, I realized that in Classic View (which I almost always use) you have the zoom-and-scroll, but in the new view, it's the large watermarked preview. Didn't someone say classic is going away?

Thanks for the heads up!

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