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Submission Thumbnails by Poonya

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm less likely to look at a submission if it's been cropped down to a thumbnail. While "a courtesy" when dealing with mature themed work, I feel it deters from the visual appeal and first impression of the piece. Anyone else feel this way?

Submission Thumbnails

Poonya

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    They can be, depending on the content. I know the folks making Weasyl are going to make some fixes/changes to how they work. Hopefully it'll be for the better!

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    Weasyl automatically crops things to thumbnails, so people are most likely not doing it on purpose.

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      There is an option to skip choosing a thumbnail. While the images are still cropped to a degree, it's visual range is more broad. Certainly much more appealing than say a 100x100 close up of just a face or hand.

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        The option to skip actually randomly chooses a place to zoom and crop (at least that's what it did to me). It's why I started manually doing it.

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          Is it random? I thought it was centred and zoomed out as much as possible.

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    I don't generally want to crop my stuff to a thumbnail, because I have a big thing about "bait and switch." Let people see the whole image, is my personal policy.

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    Yeah, I can't tell what's actually been drawn when it's zoomed in on the face. Every picture has a face. I'd rather see the whole composition.

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    yea, if you make sure you manually select the entire image in the thumbnail portion it wont cut it out, but if you dont it will randomly select a section to crop...it are a bit of a pain

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    I'm pretty happy with Weasyl overall (although obviously I haven't used it much as far as my gallery goes), but the thumbnail thing is really annoying to me. XP

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    I agree. Though Weasyl gives the uploader the choice. I usually make thumbnails in my gallery, but I try to represent the piece and its content well in the thumbnail without cropping the best parts.

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    The thumbnailing is the only part of Weasyl I find frustrating at all. I'm sure there is an artist-facing argument to be made that having FA-style gigantic thumbnails somehow means less clickthrough and fewer views for a piece, but it just ends up being kind of annoying not being able to see what's going on in a piece without clicking through and, frankly, defeats the purpose of having thumbnails to begin with. There may be more views, but they're less meaningful.

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    Yeah, I'm not too big on the thumbnail previews. Not really sure what I'm looking at when browsing through pics half the time.

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    I like the thumbnail feature, but I think people need to learn how to use it. If you want to show most of your pic in the thumbnail, just make as big a square as possible. But people seem bent on making their thumbnail just the face, and it ends up looking really unappealing. I don't think they even realize that it looks bad :/