Poniedziałek 24 Sie 2009, 8:24
Following up on the earlier journal, Getting Artist Images to Look Their Best, here is a short guide to explain how images (be they square, tall, or wide) that you upload to artist galleries are cropped for eventual use in the library.
I'll use these images (taken from Simone Kopmajer's gallery) as a visual guide to show how your original artist pics will end up looking as library images. It works on the idea that cropping images square or tall - if your original shots allow this - really is the safer option, as they minimize further cropping when your images are processed. Shown below are three sample images, in square, tall, and wide formats, and beside them the actual 126s images used for the library. The translucent red masking shows where image content will be lost (or hidden from view, rather), and the window is what you'll end up with in the library:
http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l450/fmera_photos/Picture1-9.png http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126s/34206107.png
square image - best option: full image width is retained, and only the top portion equal to approx 4/5 or 80% of the width is viewable in library (or more precisely, a w:h ratio of 126:100)
http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l450/fmera_photos/Picture1-10.png http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126s/34221675.png
tall image - full image width is retained as with square images, and still only the top portion equal to approx 80% of the width is viewable in library. (note that the max viewable height for artist images is 1.5x the image width. any excess is cropped away.)
http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l450/fmera_photos/Picture4.png http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126s/34159493.png
wide image - image is first cropped square, and then, as with square images, only the top portion equal to approx 80% of the cropped width is viewable in library.
It becomes clear that, especially when working with wide images, it's best to be sparing when cropping your originals and leave some extra room on the sides and bottom of the image. While still fully viewable in the artist page and gallery, that will be extra image content that you know you can do without (which doesn't include the lower halves of faces, bandmembers posing at the far left and right, etc. naturally).
Seeing as how the maximum image size you can have on the artist page is 252x378 (1:1.5), tall images have the added edge over wide ones by appearing relatively bigger given the same width (as evident in the images above) anyway, so that's another thing to consider.
So there you go - keep your chins up (above the red masking) ;)
This article is a working draft. Comments and questions are welcome.
The writer is leader of the Users.aGainst.LousY.images, who call themselves U.G.L.Y. for short. Watch the group's official music video.
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