by Oliver Sodemann » Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:54 am
Hi,
just saw this toppic, not going through all toppics regularly.
1.)
Is this cast page a new one, recently done?
Or just a revised?
2.)
Maybe I am privileged, being a grafic designer and working
with image editing nearly everyday. Meaning I own a scanner,
and I work with an image editing program, Photoshop. Nowadays,
Photoshop has become known, I think.
So, if an editor does not own and can afford a scanner or
does not have access to an image editing programm, be it Photoshop
or something else, please forget the following:
I would really like to see better image qualities here
regarding the portraits as screenshots.
a)
I do not understand why they are distorted,
or why there is no caring about making them undistorted
and better – which is possible.
b)
I do not understand why contrasts or other things cannot
be corrected by editors, these are rather simple, very often
automatic procedures that come with a program.
So what I see is very often unattractive for a visitor.
A gallery of rather sloppy images (as the emphasis is still
on screenshot portraits). – I yesterday visited the image gallery
of RIGHT OVERCOMES MIGHT. Why was there not one
portrait in the gallery? Is it really necessary to do a cast
page with well-known actor showing screenshots of them?
I would understand that if they would show the unidentified
ones so that others seeing them could help out. But most
of the cast is certain and confirmed. In my opinion no
screenshots needed anymore.
I am really committed and dedicated to what I do here,
wanting to deliver more accurate stuff for the galleries,
but maybe simply because I have the technology and some kind of experience,
to upload images that I have corrected in many ways and that are thus
worth it. There are maybe just five tools to use with that you can really
edit an image for the much better.
3.) Please see my recent editor's post about "captions":
I plead for not uploading blind stuff but commenting it,
so one gets an info about what it is.
@ Heinz Germany: These scans out of mags (like "Movie Story")
that you upload very often, do you get them from somebody else,
or do you scan them by yourself?
In both cases, I would like to have the info in the caption
about the mags number and year. Especially if you scan them
by yourself, this info would be no problem, I think.
Or don't you have this info because you collect these images
somewhere from the internet?
For me complete scans of pages from mag only make sense,
if they are commented what source this is. If not, everything
else besides the two or three pictures on a completely scanned
mag page is somehow superflous. Meaning: I would cut the images
and make single ones of them for uploading separately. Including setting
them straight if needed – which is necessary with nearly every internet
find as most of them are just photographed posters etc., not scanned
ones. So that in the end you would have a separate images showing
scenes from a movie which you also could caption with the actor's
names. – But I understand that not everybody has the time
for it or the technical options. (That is why I do not cast pages
because I would not like to spend time with that, and rather
love uploading and editing rare stills and writing reviews,
at least for some selected movies.)
Greetings,
Oliver