Template talk:Retouched picture

Documentation

The intention of this template is to provide a quick and easy way note that an image has been touched up. It contains several optional parameters: The example provided below uses all of them, but note that the only mandatory one is the first (the one regarding what in the image was touched up).

Images with this template are automatically added to Category:Retouched pictures.

Syntax

{{RetouchedPicture|CHANGES|editor=MODIFIER|orig=LOCATIONOFORIGINALIMAGE|origoff=LOCATIONOFORIGINALIMAGEIFOFFWIKI}}

Where:

• changes is replaced by a summary of the modifications made
• editor = The modifier of the image in question
• orig = The location of the original image, if it's onwiki (i.e., can be linked to with [[internal link double square brackets]]
• origoff = The location of the original image, if it's offwiki (i.e., only linkable with [external link single square brackets])

Which pictures should be listed?

All pictures with modifications other than touch ups by the photographer, which only try to compensate for technical deficiencies of the capturing aparatus (camera, scanner). These include:

• whitebalance, contrast, saturation
• color curves (i.e. to lighten shadows)
• sharpening
• lens distortion, leaning, perspective correction
• cropping (as long as the main subject is not altered)

I would suggest calling it "AlteredPicture" - don't think of cropping as a "retouch", and we want to track chains of major crops from an original just as much as minor ones. Stan Shebs 20:47, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd suggest to add "dust and scratches" to the above. I am often touching up photos from the Bundesarchiv or Fotothek and dust, spots, and scratches are a common problem. --Sebari (talk) 10:46, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't know that "dust and scratches" is really of the same sort as most of those in the list: It has more ability to distort reality then linear operations like (whitebalance, contrast, saturation, usually sharpening) single pixel non-linear operations (like color curves, cropping) or even image data independent affine transforms (perspective correction)... Imagine an overzealous dust and scratches removal, it could potentially a remove historically significant scar from a small face in the picture, resulting in future confusion. There should probably be a parametrizable template that encourages people to list all modifications and to link to an original. --Gmaxwell (talk) 14:29, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

There are parameters to both list the changes and link to the original :-). --Dschwen (talk) 16:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Usage

Link to separate unmodified picture provided

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Recolored Empire State Building to match my shirt. The original can be viewed here: NYC Top of the Rock Pano.jpg: .

{{RetouchedPicture|Recolored Empire State Building to match my shirt|orig=NYC_Top_of_the_Rock_Pano.jpg}}

No original Picture link provided

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Recolored Empire State Building to match my shirt.

{{RetouchedPicture|Recolored Empire State Building to match my shirt}}

Parameter editor=MODIFIER

Hi, this parameter is not very practical - I can't use it with editor=~~~, then the template create [[User:Luxo|Luxo]]. I propose to change this, then the template must be used with {{RetouchedPicture|CHANGES|editor=[[User:Luxo|Luxo]]}}; with this version one can also link to another project. The existent images with this parameter I will fix to the new version - I think that are not very much.--Luxo 23:01, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

 Done together with #Edit request: editor. Use parameter editoff= (see docu) sarang♥사랑 09:06, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Incomplete usage description

This line:

• orig = The location of the original image, if it's onwiki (i.e., can be linked to with [[internal link double square brackets]]

does not mention that the original Image name should be without square backets (what is understandable) but also without "Image:" at the beginning. --Pabouk (talk) 10:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Category

Can we add {{#ifeq: {{NAMESPACE}}|File| to the cat so it only adds it to files. --Yarnalgo (talk) 20:37, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Done. --Slomox (talk) 21:09, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Used to tag images, that are retouched

Can someone who has the right to do so please change the template and remove the comma in the sentence above? (Was probably written by a German ...;-) -- H005 (talk) 20:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Add category

{{Editprotected}} Could somebody please add Category:File namespace templates to the template. Cheers --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 12:08, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

 Done --Dschwen (talk) 12:15, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Missing space

{{editprotected}} There is a missing space in the template. Here is an example from "File:Vladimir Potanin at the Rose Farm ski resort, Russia - 20110104.jpg": "Modifications: Cropped.The original can be viewed here ..." As you can see, there should be a space after the full stop following the word Cropped and the phrase "The original can be viewed here ...". Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 08:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

 Done --Mormegil (talk) 10:34, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Great. Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 12:35, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Only for digitally altered pictures???

Hi! This template says that "[this picture] has been digitally altered from its original version". But pictures were retouched long before any digitalization. For example retouched pictures of warships where censor wanted to hide secret equipments, etc... Do we have retouchet template for non-digitally altered pictures? --Sceadugenga (talk) 07:24, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Agree with user Sceadugenga. Though I haven't gone to the pains of searching for such a template. -Mardus (talk) 23:20, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Needs "orig2", etc.

{{Editprotected}}

This needs |orig2= parameters through some arbitrary number, e.g. |orig10=, and off-wiki equivalents, for images that are combinations of more than one original. This would reduce sometimes excessive template clutter. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 16:58, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Make a concrete proposal. I like templates but I not your slave :P You can only pass 9 params to autotranslate and it would require that you edit all translations. You'd better use one of these. So, not done. -- RE rillke questions? 19:46, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

The point is, that in some situations is the retouched image compilation of several more imges here, but the template has only one orig.file. He (and me too) wishes to put into the teplate all original images, which were used on the retouched picture. It is not valid info, when there is only one of several images, but without the orig file is not valid usage of the template. That is the problem SMcCandlish tried to explain.
Niusereset (talk) 16:35, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

More than one editor

Would be nice to be able to list more than one editor. Sometimes more than one has contributed to the overall changes. (And please don't suggest using a separate template for each editor... that's not much of a solution). – JBarta (talk) 01:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

 Support --Ricordisamoa 04:18, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done together with #Edit request: editor. Use parameter editoff= (see docu) sarang♥사랑 09:06, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

We should add interwiki parameter

In order to link to English Wikipedia images, we should add a interwiki parameter, that (if present) should be prefixed before the "File:". Like {{Retouched picture|orig=Some image on English Wikipedia|user=Some user on English Wikipedia|iw=en}}. — Eloy (talk) 18:39, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

"editor" parameter doesn't work

{{Editprotected}} The template doesn't handle interwiki links for the "editor" parameter. It is incorrect to assume that the image editor has a Wikimedia Commons account, as images are often transferred from various wikis by administrators. In such cases, if one tries to prefix the username with the code for their language-specific Wikipedia account, e.g. :en:JohnSmith, the template now spews gibberish. — Quicksilver^@ 15:51, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm assuming the template will generate a link [[User::en:JohnSmith]]. This can only be solved by adding a editor_lang' parameter. --Dschwen (talk) 16:41, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

 Done together with #Edit request: editor. Use parameter editoff= (see docu) -- sarang♥사랑 09:06, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Multilingual modifications summary

There is an issue when using language templates such as {{en}} etc. because these templates insert line breaks by default, so it breaks formating. The word "Modifications" goes upper right while modifications summary go to the next line and also editor section starts at new line with a full stop mark. See example:

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: English: Stitched photos Ελληνικά: Συνενωμένες φωτογραφίες . Modifications made by Protnet.

Any ideas how to implement multilingual summaries?--Ioannis Protonotarios (talk) 13:37, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Moreover, there are cases where one may want to use one or more readymade modification template boxes (such as the Template:Panorama) inside the Template:Retouched picture, like in the following example:

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: NOTE: This image is a panorama of Itea consisting of 2 frames that were merged or stitched in Adobe Photoshop. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and colour and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different from reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions. . Modifications made by Protnet.

Therefore I think that the Template:Retouched picture should be modified to look something like this:

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: 1. Some foo modification 2. Multilingual English: Stitched photos Ελληνικά: Συνενωμένες φωτογραφίες 3. A template: NOTE: This image is a panorama of Itea consisting of 2 frames that were merged or stitched in Adobe Photoshop. As a result, this image necessarily underwent some form of digital manipulation. These manipulations may include blending, blurring, cloning, and colour and perspective adjustments. As a result of these adjustments, the image content may be slightly different from reality at the points where multiple images were combined. This manipulation is often required due to lens, perspective, and parallax distortions. The original can be viewed here: Bar.jpg. Modifications made by Foo. The original can be found here.

Basically, all it needs is a couple of <br/>'s. And maybe change "Modifications:" to something like "The following modifications were applied:" (pardon my English, not a native speaker). And of course we must lose the spare dot.

--Ioannis Protonotarios (talk) 17:58, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Edit request: editor

{{Editprotected}} Please replace the current code with the following:

{{Autotranslate|1={{{1}}}|2={{{orig|}}}|3={{{editor|}}}|4={{{origoff|}}}|5={{{editoff|}}}|base=Retouched picture}}{{{category|{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|File|[[Category:Retouched pictures|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}}}<noinclude>
{{Documentation}}
</noinclude>

It establishes a 5^th parameter "editoff" (like "origoff"), allowing the often needed and multiple requested possibility of free formatting the editor. This will also satisfy the #Parameter editor=MODIFIER, #More than one editor and the #"editor" parameter doesn't work requests. The documentation is expanded for this parameter#5, at the moment just the English and the German localized version can handle it. As soon the template will be expanded it can display properly
{{Retouched picture|nothing|orig=Video clip edit.svg|editor=Rillke|editoff=[[User:Rillke#Welcome|'''''{{Color|#0C9|RE|bg=#FFF}}''''' rillke]]}}

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: nothing. The original can be viewed here: Video clip edit.svg: . Modifications made by RE rillke.

The expansion has been tested, it works fine. The categorizations are contained in the docu, therefore I removed it from the template. sarang♥사랑 09:06, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

 Done. --Dschwen (talk) 16:10, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Das Anwendungsbeispiel mit der aufgehuebschten Unterschrift finde ich allerdings nicht so prickelnd. Das macht es nur schwieriger den Bearbeiter maschinell herauszulesen. Mit dem original editor parameter kann man z.B. eine Kategorie, CategoryImages edited by USERNAME automatisch einfügen. Wenn der editoff parameter jetzt nur fuer irgendwelche signature-spielereien missbraucht wird, werden die Daten deutlich entwertet. --Dschwen (talk) 16:13, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Ach, quatsch, der editor parameter ist ja immernoch da. Meine Bemerkung kannst also streichen. Es wird nur ein Problem, wenn der editor parameter weggelassen wird. --Dschwen (talk) 16:15, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Um Himmels willen, bei 109959 Vorlageneinbindungen (die alle "editor" verwenden!) sollte man sich tunlichst hüten was zu verbiegen. Aber diese Erweiterung ermöglicht endlich das schon mehrmals angefragte freiere Formatieren, zB die Angabe mehrerer User. Ich kann in der Doku noch darauf hinweisen dass immer auch "editor" mit einem gültigen Wert versorgt werden muss; zB editor=User|editoff={{Uc|User}} um den redlink zu vermeiden wenn die userpage nicht existiert. Ist das o.k.?

Dazu eine Frage: was wäre denn bei ausländischen usern als editor einzutragen, um die maschinelle Auswertung zu gewährleisten? Bei editoff wäre es zB {{U|Dschwenn||de}} für Dschwenn. Speziell dieser Fall des Verweises auf Benutzer ohne Commons-account tritt immer wieder bei Bildern aus anderen Wikipedias auf. Und das sollte auch irgendwie hinzubekommen sein; auch hier einfach den user angeben, auch wenn es keine Spuren von ihm in commens gibt?

Der Parameter "editor" ist bisher optional und wird oft nicht verwendet. sarang♥사랑 09:52, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Auslaender werden doch per SUL sowieso demnaechst zwangseingebuergert :-). Da sollten die Sprachlinks ueberfluessige werden. Vielleicht als guideline in die Dokumentation schreiben, das editor=Username (ohne namespace oder language prefix, und ohne wikimarkup) gesetzt wird, und bei meherern editoren sollten die usernamen alphabetisch durch Kommata getrennt aufgefuehrt werden. --Dschwen (talk) 16:36, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

P.S.: falls keine Commons nutzerseite existiert waere es besser eine (mit einem soft redirect) anzulegen. Das macht man dann nur einmal, und dann funktionieren alle Retouched Picture templates. --Dschwen (talk) 16:48, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Danke für das Editieren. Jetzt will ich noch eine Kleinigkeit verbessern, die eigentlich als selbstverständlich von Anfang an enthalten sein sollte:

Edit request: PAGENAME

Please replace the template code with

{{Autotranslate|1={{{1}}}|2={{PAGENAME:{{{orig|}}}}}|3={{PAGENAME:{{{editor|}}}}}|4={{{origoff|}}}|5={{{editoff|}}}|base=Retouched picture}}{{{category|{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|File|[[Category:Retouched pictures|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}}}<noinclude>
{{Documentation}}
</noinclude>

It will allow to specify orig and editor also with namespace, and replaces the boring understrokes (occurs often in filenames) with spaces. The documentation update is done. Example:

This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Rotated 1.06 degrees to the left, fixed minor problems such as noise. The original can be viewed here: US Navy 040909-C-3948H-001 As the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack approaches, a test of the Tribute in Light Memorial illuminates a passing cloud above lower Manhattan.jpg: . Modifications made by (terms and conditions apply).

sarang♥사랑 12:07, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

 Done --Steinsplitter (talk) 18:11, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Edit request: thumb

A thumbnail of the original image (i.e., if it is local) could be shown, flushed to the right. Some heuristics concerning pixel size could be used, maybe width kept <25% of the parent box and area never >10 kpx. -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 17:41, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Your request has been checked. An image can only be shown when the parameter "orig=" contains its filename; then the link to this file is displayed and it can be followed. Of course the image itself can be displayed as well - but only so small that it does not break the box; so only sizes between 20px and 28px are possible, 32px is rather too large depending on the pictures height relation. Sorry about your nice idea, but IMHO it won't work very well. sarang♥사랑 17:34, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Other templates

In my understanmding, a retouched picture is a derivate from another one, with (more or less) substantial changes.

• A vectorization is not a retouching! In most cases, it will show (more or less) exactly the same image, but instead of a bitmap it is done by a vector graphic. For such works, the template:{{AutVec}} had been developped, it eases to specify both authors [and the link to the bitmap file].
• Another thing is just to change the language of built-in text. Either the file get expanded to the <switch> method to bear more languages within one file, or other file versions are created for the other languages. Such translations are as well no retouchings! Because it will not be useful to tag such translations with {{Retouched picture}}, something like {{Translated picture}} is needed for correct tagging. Any more ideas? Comments? -- sarang♥사랑 10:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Edit request

−

{{{category|{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|File|[[Category:{{#ifeq:{{#invoke:File|extension|file={{PAGENAME}}}}|svg|SVG retouched pictures{{#ifeq:{{#invoke:File|extension|file={{{orig}}}}}|svg|| from raster}}|Retouched pictures}}|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}}}

+

{{{category|{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|File|[[Category:{{#switch:{{#invoke:File|extension|file={{PAGENAME}}}}|svg=SVG retouched pictures{{#ifeq:{{#invoke:File|extension|file={{{orig}}}}}|svg|| from raster}}|webm|ogm=Edited videos|Retouched pictures}}|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}}}

Allows videos to be categorized into Category:Edited videos. Watch out not to change &#32; into &amp;#32; which is what you see in the wikicode of this message. The code as displayed on the page in the StringDiff is correct. - Alexis Jazz ^{ping plz} 23:22, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Discussion on retouching and misleading readers

 You are invited to join the discussion at Commons:Village pump#Artificially making sky blue. Sdkb (talk) 04:44, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Suggested tweaks for the warning panel under heading "Usage"

I suggest the following amendments to the yellow panel under the heading "Usage":

• remove the word rather (somewhat idiosyncratic usage; nothing lost if it is removed)
• make the second sentence a new paragraph
• re-word the second sentence as shown below.

It would then read:

The mere conversion of a raster image to its SVG version is not an alteration. To display two authors instead of one, use Template:AutVec.

Cheers, Simon – SCHolar44 🇦🇺 💬 at 12:50, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, Simon, good idea!  Done -- sarang♥사랑 09:22, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Format change

To display the original file name bolded seems too heavy - esp. when it links. I would prefer nobold when linked, and bold only when not linking to a file. -- sarang♥사랑 09:22, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Parameter origedt defined but not implemented

The documentation lists the parameter origedt, but this parameter is not implemented. I would kindly request its implementation --Thorbjoern.Joerger (talk) 20:38, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Focus Stacking

Is there a template recomended after using the focus-stacking-Method (Composing a photo from several layers with the same image crop but different sharpness settings)? --Superbass (talk) 16:42, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Leaving third parameter empty

If I use this template with the first 2 parameters filled (the type of revisions done and who did them) but leave the others empty, the template will automatically fill the links to the source image with redlinks. See for example here. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? ReneeWrites (talk) 17:07, 17 March 2024 (UTC)