What’s In A Filename?

57 Replies to “What’s In A Filename?”

1. “Hero” is a common term used by photographers and photo editors for the best image on a contact sheet. There are untold zillions of file photos throughout this country with the term “hero” appended to them. Don’t let it get to you.

2. Or maybe it’s “Reho”, as in Stephane Dion considering himself a “reho”. Same incompetence, same over-inflated ego.

3. Urbaniak, I doubt any of those photos on the white house site have anything to do with the picture being a hero photograph in the technical sense of the term. Generally when one uploads a hero photograph, they rename it to describe something like oh say…
   http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/obama/stemcell_main2.jpg (not an actual link)
   rather than
   http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/hero_stemcell_main2.jpg (yea, the actual link)
   Notice how the first link is informativ, you know that Obama is featured, you know that it is a photo having to do with stemcells. You know what the link is about, you will know what the photo is about. Now, onto the actual link! Notice how hero is located in the actual link twice, only one of those could possibly be misconstrued as a Hero Photograph name, but that leaves one more hero, so one can assume that it has to do with a hero (I’m thinking batman but only cause he wears rubber suits) and again, stemcells. This means, unless someone at the white house is a complete ninny (aside from the One) and cant rename photographs, a conscious choice was made to put hero in the link and the title of the photograph, meaning this is not a hero photo, but rather a photo of a hero.
   This is a cult in its early phases, all the sane members of the population can do is hope that the spaceship takes off soon.

4. For a couple of people who’ve asked:
   His SS name is “Renegade” and if you look that up in Websters, it means “lawless one.” If that phrase sounds familiar to you, it’s a Biblical to the antichrist. “He will be called ‘the lawless one.'”
   It’s somewhere around that verse that refers to the antichrist as the “abomination who brings desolation.”
   My husband is convinced that God is slapping His forehead and saying, “Obama Nation, people! You needed a less subtle hint?”

5. I’ve worked in graphic design and now web design for 10 years now, and the term “hero image” or “hero shot” has long since referred to the lead image.
   In my opinion, every photo in the hero directory was most likely used with one of the lead stories on the home page at one time. Currently the images tied to all 4 lead stories are in the hero directory.
   Example;
   This image is currently on the home page, and is in the hero directory.
   This is a bigger version of the same image, that is not from the home page, and is not in the hero directory.
   The first image is in a folder called assets and another folder inside there called hero. Likely all photos in there appeared on the homepage. Also notice the file name there is travis_hero.jpg, nothing about Obama being the hero. The second version of that image exists in a location that makes sense again for its use, it is in the assets folder, and then a folder called slideshow, as it appears in a slideshow, and then a folder that seems to sort photos by their size. It seems quite obvious the photos are organized into folders that are named by how and where they are used on the site.
   There are numerous shots of Obama throughout the site that are not in the hero directory.
   This is a non-issue that is running wild with no real basis.

6. Como se dice, “Gag me with a pitchfork,” en Espanol?

7. Yep. The term “hero” as Dustin points out, has long been a term referring to lead images in webdesign.
   But oh, look, Kate, your fellow nimrod over at Redstate “caught” this too!
   Whatta bunch of maroons. A 56-post thread, yet, dedicated to this crap.
   Looking forward to your retraction, Kate.
   And how ’bout oen for the “Recession Watch” posts, too?
   SDA: consistently wrong.