Thread:Animation1932/@comment-961279-20131215161441

Here's some tips on how to select pictures to upload and choosing names for them.

First, whenever possible, save the pictures as a jpg file instead of png. As long as you choose a low compression value like 10% or lower (or "high quality", if that's how your graphics program calls it), most jpg pictures look about the same as a png, but their file size is smaller, which means they load quicker.

Next, try to give the pictures a name that describes what's happening in the picture. If you can't come up with one that's fairly short, then use the episode name and add a number to it. For example, you have one called "Lisa Shading 1.png", which you can see to the right. The only way I found out that it was from "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story" is because it's used on the gallery for that episode. I might have called that picture "Entering the cavern.png" or "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story (47).png", but would have also used jpg format.

After that, please include categories for the picture. In that picture, we see Lisa, Marge, Bart and Homer, so the categories would have been as follows:

On some of the pictures you uploaded, you had categories like "Season 22" or "Galleries". While the pictures might have been used in a gallery or on a page from a Season 22 episode, the pictures themselves are not a gallery or a Season 22. Just use categories that are for what's in the picture like what I listed above. You can also read the Understanding catgories page for advice on what kinds of categories to add and which ones not to add.

I also saw that you uploaded the same picture a few times under different names and that you uploaded several pictures that were almost identical. For example, "Lisa Shading 2.jpg" and "Lisa Shading 3.jpg" were pretty much the same as "Lisa Shading 1.png". The only difference between the three was the expression on Lisa's face, and Homer and Bart are fighting/struggling while trying to get into the cavern. In this case, only one picture is necessary to get an idea of what his happening in that scene. If you want to change the name of a picture, let me know and I'll rename it so that you don't have to upload it a second time.

Finally, it looks like you're interested in when shading is used in a picture. I don't think it's necessary to point this out because the artists for The Simpsons will use shading when appropriate. So, please leave that out of the file name and pick names as I described above. Also, we wouldn't need categories to indicate that a picture has shading in them, and we wouldn't need redundant categories.

On a couple pictures, you had a "Bart and Lisa Shading" category and a "Lisa and Bart Shading" category. Both of those categories say the same thing. But more importantly, shading is a standard feature of any high quality animated feature, so we don't need to call attention to it.

Please continue to upload pictures for the galleries. If you can follow the steps above, it will help keep things organized and reduce the clutter and duplicate pictures. 