Managing Images in the Statewide Image Library

This article provides notes on managing images and a detailed video showing how to manage images in the Statewide Image Library.

So, it's just a place for me to go get images from, right?

NO!  The Statewide Image Library is a place to refer to images while they stay living in the library.  It defeats the purpose to have a perfectly good image in the library while a copy is downloaded and re-uploaded to a website.  Instructions can be found here:

Use images from the Statewide Image Library in Oregon.gov websites. (link coming soon)

A Library in the Cloud

The Statewide Image Library is housed on a Content Delivery Network (CDN) so it does not rely on the performance, nor even the presence of the web servers to hold content.  The CDN is in the cloud, so the location of the image asset may be fluid and in constant motion.  The cloud is made up of many thousands of web servers that share the load of serving up the content that is placed there so that regardless of problems 'on the ground' so-to-speak, the content in the cloud can find the best way to get to wherever it's being requested.

An Intelligent Library?

The Statewide Image Library uses artificial intelligence (AI) for a couple of things.  The AI can 'read' the image and pick out attributes that it recognizes such as flowers, mountains, dogs, birds, sky, stars, etc. and add tags to the uploaded images automatically.  These are not set in stone.  Sometimes the AI doesn't recognize things and sometimes it thinks an image contains something it doesn't.  The author can remove and add tags as is appropriate to the image at any time.  The AI also scans the image for 'important' content and makes adjustments to the center point and cropping technique when the application creates the different sizes and aspect ratios of images in the Image Wizard.

Prior viewing

Watch this first:

• Statewide Image Library Overview
• Get access to the Statewide Image Library

Video

Notes

• The library is capable of both; simply uploading images as is and, uploading an image and creating four sizes each of aspect ratios 1:1, 4:3, and 16:9.  It can also do all that in both .jpg and .webp formats in one process. 
• On longer processes, you may experience a 'Please try again' message.  Usually, the application glitched and the process DID complete successfully.  Use the 'Back' button in the browser and then the File menu on the CDN to browse back to where you were working and see if the process completed.  If for some reason you can't get it to complete after two tries, please submit a request with the service desk for assistance.