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id: PR-2
title: Photos and honest pictures
group: Privacy and safety
summary: What happens to every photo and video before it leaves your device, and what Showcaser will never do to a picture
keywords: [photos, location, gps, exif, metadata, privacy, honest, enhance, ai, crop, resize, video]
---

Your photos are evidence that a real thing exists, in the condition it is in. Showcaser treats them that way.

## Locations removed, on your device

A photo from a phone carries hidden details: where it was taken, when, with what camera. Before any photo leaves your iPhone, iPad or Mac, the app makes a fresh copy of the picture alone, with none of those details. So a photo taken at home never publishes your address. Videos are copied the same way, with their location and other personal details dropped.

This happens to every photo: in a listing, on a page and in the header.

## What the app does to a picture

- **Resizes it** to three sizes, the largest 1,600 pixels on its long side, so pages load fast. A smaller photo is never enlarged.
- **Compresses video** to 720p, so it plays in every browser.
- **Keeps it whole.** Nothing is cropped. The Cards layout shows photos cut to a shape on the site, but the whole picture is kept, so changing the shape later loses nothing.

## What it never does

- It never invents detail or sharpens with AI.
- It never generates or replaces a background.
- It never "enhances" a picture.

A plain, honest photo of the real object is worth more to a buyer than a perfect one of something like it.

## Taking good photos

- Daylight, or even light, and the whole thing in the frame.
- The first photo is the cover: make it the clearest one.
- For art, photograph the piece straight on, so its proportions match its size; the Dimensions field warns when they don't. See Dimensions and View on your wall (LS-8).