Picture credits

A picture's credit follows its rights. Your own pictures carry none on the slide and are described by what they show; someone else's are credited to their photographer or source.

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01What it is

Every picture on a slide knows who it belongs to, because the picture in your library says so. Gyrium uses that to decide whether a credit appears in the corner of the picture. A picture you own shows none. A stock photograph or a licensed picture shows its credit, written as a real credit line such as "Photo by Ana Ruiz on Pexels".

02Why it matters

A credit is owed to someone else. On your own packshot it is noise, and it used to be worse: when your picture had no credit line, the slide showed its file name and the word "owned". Your own picture is better used to say what it shows, so a screen reader names the product on it.

03How it works

When a picture is placed on a slide, Gyrium reads its rights from the library:

- *Owned* (you said so when you uploaded it): no credit on the slide. The slide still points at the picture in your library, so it can always be traced. Its description for screen readers names the product it shows, then says what the picture shows. If you want the product's name on the slide too, switch the credit on: it reads as a caption with the product's name (or your brand's name when the picture shows no single product), never a file name.

- *Licensed, stock or someone else's*: the credit is shown, written from the picture's credit line, or the site it came from. A file name is never used as a credit. When there is nothing to credit, the slide asks for a source; Gyrium never invents one.

- *Rights not given*: a credit someone wrote is shown; a picture with none is treated as your own upload and shows none.

Changing the picture brings the new picture's own credit and its own default.

04How to use it
  1. Open the deck and choose Edit.
  2. Select the picture. Under source position, choose where the credit sits: a corner, below the picture, or Not shown.
  3. To name the product on one of your own pictures, choose a corner or below: the caption is the product's name. You can change its words in the source field.
05Q&A
Why is the product's name not under my packshot?

The heading and the picture already name it, so a caption would say it twice. The name is in the picture's description, which screen readers and exports carry. Choose a source position to show it on a picture where you want it.

Will Gyrium ever drop a stock photographer's credit?

Not on its own. A credit owed to someone else is shown by default; only a person can switch it off.

06Limits & not-yet

A visible caption naming the product is shown only on the pictures where you switch it on.

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