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Thumbnails - Why do the face only? by Webster
I've noticed a lot of people crop thumbnails to only show a character's face on here. I understand that the thumbnails are small (I wish Weasyl would change that) but it doesn't help make anyone (Well, alright, I can really only talk for myself) interested in the piece. Half the time I forget that it's cropped and think it's just a head-shot, too. But if there is content I don't care for, I wind up viewing it just trying to see what the submission is about, then regret doing so. It makes me less likely to view submissions with thumbnails cropped like that, because of the bad experiences and not wanting to be bothered guessing what I might see.
You might get some more views on each picture, but it's not going to increase the amount of comments or favs. Surely that number can't be so super important to you that you're willing to pull that sort of BS tactic.
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I get what you're saying. Focusing on a single subject can make for a more interesting piece. But the piece is not the thumbnail. The thumbnail should be representative of the content of the picture. You crop it to the face, great. But then you click it and see blood and guts everywhere. Sure, the face is in it, but that is not the focus of the piece. Maybe it's a fetish you don't care for.
I'm not asking to necessarily show the entire picture (especially with the tiny thumbnails Weasyl has) but cropping to just the face when the picture is so much more is disingenuous. If you do just the face to make the picture "interesting or eye appealing" then you are deceiving viewers. You're showing one thing to get them to view something else. Making an entire picture just a face? Sure. Good. It shows detail and can be great. But that's not the thumbnail.
The thumbnail is specifically a smaller version of the picture so people don't have to waste bandwidth viewing pictures they don't like. That defeats the entire purpose if the thumbnail barely shows anything of the picture.
I feel a close up gives you a sample of the quality your about to look at
Great. It shows it's something technically good. But it shows almost nothing of the content. You want to include the face? Sure. Just show the bondage gear with it. Show the bright pink tu-tu. Show the swords. Show the guns. Show the complete lack of regards for physics.
Show me something!
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Hmm , personally I've blocked most of the fetishes content I wouldn't like to see. I've never really had the problem of clicking an image to find it was something that disturbed me. I would think it kind of beneficial that they do crop it.? Just using gore as an example. Even if they didn't crop you would have a tiny image of gore? Blood and guts. Your kind of still seeing the thing you dislike just tiny versioned. When the thumbnail is cropped not on the gore. I kind of view it as a nice way not to see the whole image if I don't want to chug up my lunch. (Though I actually enjoy gore but not when its sexually dipicted.)
I feel what your saying about the deceptive parts of images. I had a problem with certain fetish art then I just finally blocked all the key words for it. I can understand when the peice isn't labeled properly and the tag blocker doesn't pick it up. It would drive anyone nuts seeing things that disturb them. But I still kind of feel that cropped thumbnails aren't nessarily a bad thing. Its not nessarily a different image but only part of a bigger picture. Its just presented in a different way.
Though as you said, just close up head shots you aren't getting a good idea of what the image is. I feel people try to either give the image mystery or are not aware of how to "find the image within an image". That leads to undefined thumbnails. Though I personally go back and forth on making the whole image the thumb. Tiny doesn't give it justice the art would deserve. But we're kind of stuck with tiny thumbs.
I would possiblely suggest beefing up your tag blocker words so you wouldn't find peices that bring you discomfort. I feel it would help you to avoid such contents down the line. :/
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Lost my original reply. Basically, sometimes I don't know about something before hand so I can't have blocked it yet, or sometimes if I block a keyword it will also block things I don't want to be blocked. I'm just asking for showing what content is in it. If it's gore, crop to show a little bit of blood, you don't have to show the whole thing. If there's going to be tickling bondage, show the feather or ropes or something.
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Uhh I normally do the face because when I upload a full picture it gets cropped on the sides if I don't upload a thumbnail or make the thumb nail using the site. ( I believe it crops the sides if its to big and I really don't like that. I actually have some uncropped ones now and they really look bad XD.)
For me I try to make it interesting but still fair. I could crop to some other part of the body but how many are going to look at a close up of some legs? Or just right in the middle of the body. The head is easy and expressive. I'm not really surrized its the go to crop. Though I know some are better then others. Its just how the mind works subconsciously when veiwing pictures.
I think of it like photography class. It taught me stuff like what the eye and mind is attracted to. I kind of had a natural eye for it. Making a photo interesting or eye appealing. Cropping or making thumbnails can make a picture very interesting. At least this is what my teacher encouraged. She would try to give us a new way of looking at things. I am fascinated with micro or super up close photos because of this. Hmm how to say, like if I was in a garden of roses. I can take a picture of all of them as a group photo or I can get close to only one bush of roses. My true interest is getting close to one rose, then soon closer to one petal or the middle of it. I guess it was a lesson on perspective. Playing with , angles, cropping, and rotating it to make it look interesting. She would take my big pictures and would want me to crop large portions of them out. Cutting away distraction from the subject or noise. Finding a photo within a photo is so much fun! Like a group of horses but you crop to a portrait of one horse. That one horse is already intresting on its own and broadcasting its beauty as a stand alone portrait makes it even better. Though both photos can be strong and presented in a gallery as stand alone subjects.
I feel like thumbnails attempts to do the same thing but not all are winners. I think its a work with what you got really. I don't really like when they make the entire image the thumbnail. Its so small you can't really see what's going on most of the time. It shows the subject in such a way that , it makes it look bad or unintresting to me. Its all about presentation of your work. I feel a close up gives you a sample of the quality your about to look at. Large pictures turned into small pictures will kind of always look good or ok when shrunk because of the pixelation effect. I feel if your going to present an entire image it should be on a much larger format instead of a tiny thumbnail. So cropping to interesting up close spots will present it in a much more eye appealing way. The "Finding a photo within a photo" is what I try to do with my thumbnails. Its less a tactic for me but more presentation of my pictures.
If done correctly it can be benefiting to the artist because of presentation. The thumbnail looks good the picture linked to it should look good as well. I honestly forget a lot of the subconscious photo concepts. How the eye follows and what it gets drawn too. Its all based on making the mind interested in what its viewing.