A major update has been made to the image upload system.

First and foremost I want to say that this was a huge change behind-the-scenes and touches a lot of code throughout the site, so expect bugs. If you spot a problem or something just doesn't feel right, please let me know in the #vkgy-meta board on Discord and I'll work to polish this up in the coming weeks.

Here's an overview of the biggest points:

Refined UI

• By default, previously-uploaded images are collapsed. Should make scrolling through artist pages easier.
• UI has been simplified to only show you what you need to see at a given moment.

New field

• There's now an emphasis on tagging the “image content” as in group photo, photo of one member, flyer, etc. Setting this properly will open up different options for tagging the image.
• When uploading a new image, the system will guess the image content based on the dimensions of the image. This mostly works for more modern, standardized photos.
• The description now automatically updates based on this field + the artist name.
• At a later date, I'll run a script to make guesses at the image content for all previously-uploaded images.

Improvements to tagging

• You're now encouraged to tag the artist first and foremost. Then, depending on the content type, you may see options for tagging the musician and/or release.
• You can now tag musicians and releases even if you're uploading the image to a blog post.

Facial boundary detection

• I've implemented facial boundary detection. This means that the system will attempt to recognize all faces in an image and allow you to tag those faces. (The system will not recognize who each face belongs to.)
• Note that facial boundary detection will only happen once the artist has been tagged and the image content is set to “group photo” or “flyer.” If the image content is set to “musician,” there's no need to detect his face boundaries.
• These facial boundaries will be made use of in future updates.

Dupes detected

• The system can now detect when you're uploading an image that's already been uploaded before. When that's the case, it will simply link the old image to whatever you're uploading it to. (This mostly applies to uploading artist photos to blog posts.) This should help save us some server room and costs spent on compressing images.

1. new feature First pass at adding face detection to image uploads.

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2. new feature First pass at allowing manual tagging.

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3. improvement Still working on it.

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4. minor addition Moved .input__note from bespoke stylesheet to shared sheet.

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   blog style
5. minor addition Added ability to specify checked/selected element in render_component.

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   core framework
6. improvement Continued playing with UI.

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   images
7. new feature Permanently added AlpineJS.
8. new feature Updated component renderer to ignore e.g. { blah } so that AlpineJS can be added to templates.

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9. improvement Changed structure of allowed_image_contents array.

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10. improvement Cleaned up portions of image upload code with AlpineJS.

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    images
11. improvement Separated logic of getting faces vs getting face html, and updated get_face_html to use template.
12. improvement Continued work. Need to figure out how to populate faces box after waiting for faces html.

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13. minor addition Figued out async calls to get face boundaries and html. Styled button to manually tag additional faces.

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14. new feature Added/cleaned up ability to add another face from master image.

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    images
15. improvement Continued to clean up image UI.

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16. other Removed maps.

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    scripts
17. minor addition Changed access_image to include musicians array with musicians who are tagged by face boundaries (as well as untagged faces).

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18. new feature Added ability to echo {checked_id} in item components.

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19. improvement Cleaned up logic/filenames of face/face html getters.

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20. minor addition Added selected musician to face box and changed naming scheme.

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21. improvement Cleaned up logic of image template.

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22. improvement Adjusted style of image section.

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23. new feature Got face tagging/deletion working and cleaned up related functions massively.

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24. improvement Disallowed musician tagging for certain photo types.

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25. minor addition Added helper to insert new JSON lists into page.
26. improvement Allowed release and musician tagging on blog page.

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    blog
27. improvement Included artist ID in face dropdowns.

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28. minor addition Made it possible to link image to item without updating other fields for image (i.e. auto-linking image to blog post).

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29. new feature Updated image section to get specific musician/release lists for reach artist, and to set additional variables.

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30. new feature Added handling of dupe uploads and auto attempted content detection.

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31. new feature Added ability to dynamically add in JSON lists, ability to grab images as dupes, and auto update description. Also reorganized and cleaned up.

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32. minor addition Added collapsed style for images.

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33. improvement Changed faces to use specific dropdowns based on artist.

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34. new feature Redid UI and logic of image edit sections.

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35. new feature Added size ratios to attempt to auto-detect image content.

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36. new feature Updated JSON list getter to allow for easier dynamic getting.

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37. minor addition Made delete buttons able to append ? or insert Delete? as necessary.

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38. bug fix Fixed issue with dropdowns initializing multiple times.

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39. bug fix Changed dupe to facsimile.

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    blog
40. bug fix Separated and updated exposed API key.

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    .gitignore images
41. improvement Made new uploads correctly flag isNew.

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42. improvement Made text dynamic on 'scanned by me' button.

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43. bug fix Corrected musician positions in face tagging.

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44. bug fix Fixed issue with apostrophes in image descriptions. Also fixed issue with images without item type were listed as facsimiles.

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45. bug fix Corrected issue with allowed extensions variable.

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46. bug fix Updated various regex patterns to reflect that hyphens must be at front or end of pattern if not part of range.

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    artists core framework
47. bug fix Temporarily disabled image uploads on artist pages, as long artist pages were losing data (presumably due to max_input_vars).

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    artists
48. bug fix Fixed variable reference that was causing artist and flyer of day to fail.

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    core framework
49. other Reenabled images on artist pages.

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    artists
50. other Removed notice about images being disabled.

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    artists