Lisa Lane Diigo-ed The Verge article about Getty Images’s new free embed licence.
Here is the link to Getty’s page advertising the new service. The embed code adds the appropriate credit – and will probably embed adverts and data collection in the future. Clicking the image takes you back to Getty’s site where you can purchase the image for commercial use.
I’m testing it here. It appears I can edit the embed code to change the size of the image. No need to calculate the proportions too carefully, it doesn’t seem to distort no matter what you do. Appears it takes the lowest value (width or height) and scales the image to that even if the other dimension is wildly out of range.
Original embed code is h=407 x w=507 pixels
Here’s the same image set to a carefully calculated 75% size of h=305 x w=380
Here it is set to h=200 x w=1200 – notice that it still stays perfectly proportioned
Oh, guess what. I just discovered I could drag to resize the image. Grab the placeholder by the corner handles; the code adjusts itself. This one started as the default w=507 x h=407, but dragging changed the values to a thumbnail-sized w=127 x h=100. Kind of scrambles the image credits, though. Besides this looks smaller than 100 pixels high.
Hmmm, I wonder why WordPress changes the code so height comes before width, when Getty’s original has width first.
One drawback is that word-wrap is gone. So is the Left, Centre, Right image-placement option. In a comment on The Verge article, “jomamma” said you could edit the WordPress CSS to bring back word-wrap. Maybe. It’s beyond me for now.
