User talk:OptimisticFool/Image Cleanup

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[edit] Widescreen

I don't feel that all screenshots from SBCG4AP need to be in a widescreen aspect ratio. A wide image makes everything smaller when seen as a thumbnail. In other words, the result of having extra empty space is worse visibility of the subject of the image. OptimisticFool 07:52, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

And yet the Telltale website displays screenshots in widescreen. Here is the most relevant example I can find as to why 4:3 cropping is intolerable. Actually, since we're talking about Wii games, this example may be more relevant, but it's not as effective. BBG 16:21, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Generally speaking, I strongly share your opinion when it comes to watching movies/shows or playing games in a format other then as they were originally framed by the artists who created them, and given an option I tend to prefer the wider field of view (although not unequivocally -- in some games the wider field of view actually results in cutting off the top/bottom of things). All that aside, these are freeze-frames of the game intended to capture relevant snippets that add flavor to the wiki articles, not to reproduce the actual gameplay experience for the readers. I see no problem with cropping an interestingly framed scene to suit that purpose. In fact I think the end result is better if the cropping is done well, given that they appear at a relatively small size in the articles. 98.222.134.36 16:42, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry, but...

What is the aspect ratio? I don't see anything wrong with the pictures in that category. Thy Not Dennis (^t/_c) 12:32, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

According to the edit history of each of those, someone already corrected them. Although, looking at the changes some of the new ones have only very slightly different aspect ratios and at least one of them didn't look changed at all to me (I didn't actually measure it though, so maybe it was just very subtle). 98.222.134.36 13:52, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

But... what is an aspect ratio? Thy Not Dennis (^t/_c) 14:31, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

The ratio of the width versus the height of the image, or how "square" an image is. For example, traditional televisions and monitors have an aspect ratio of 4:3, meaning for every 4 pixels of width, there are 3 pixels of height. Widescreen televisions and monitors are 16:9. Movie screens are even wider. 98.222.134.36 15:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: the actual images in question, I don't really know what the problem is/was. If the images were being shown in the wrong aspect ratio, they would appear stretched or squashed, but that didn't seem to be the case. Perhaps the person who flagged them as needing fixed simply wanted them to be the same ratio as appears in the game, but the game had both 4:3 modes and 16:9 modes, and some of them are cropped anyway. I don't know, so that's why I reverted my initial edit saying they were "done". 98.222.134.36 15:21, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

You're right, I wanted the pictures in 16:9. BBG 15:23, 25 April 2009 (UTC)