Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve: Observations on Life, Tech and Web Design from a Slightly Misanthropic Mind

Reuniting SXC.hu Photos With Their Authors

I’ve been using a lot of stock pho­tos in recent pro­jects, and a good deal of them come from the fant­astic SXC.hu. One issue I ran into, how­ever, was that after down­load­ing sev­eral dozen, mak­ing selec­tions, then even­tu­ally using them, I’d usu­ally lost track of where they came from on the site.

Even though the images are roy­alty– (and for the most part, com­pletely) free, I still like to thank the authors if I’ve used their work in a pro­ject. So I thought I’d share this little tip: save the files from SXC.hu with their ori­ginal file­names. These take the form of some­thing like:

1156122_67969442.jpg

That first num­ber is the ID of the photo, and you can then return to that photo’s page on SXC.hu by insert­ing the ID into the fol­low­ing URL:

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/<image ID>
e.g. http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1156122

I’ve no idea what the second num­ber is, but it’s prob­ably some­thing equally use­ful. Anyway, this should help you give credit where it’s due. Group hugs all round.