User:Darkman 4/Images

Our policies on pictures very simple:

Licenses
When uploading a pictures, ALWAYS remember to add a license. If not, your picture will be deleted. Oh no!

To add a license, look for the "License" dropdown bar when uploading a picture. the general rule is that all screenshots are under "fair use", so select that when uploading screenshots.

For non-screenshots, look up the copyright status of the picture. If you can't find it, don't upload it!

Naming pictures
When uploading pictures, you don't really have to worry about picture names. The only guideline is that they name of the picture should be tangibly related to the picture's subject. For example, if you took a picture of some zombies dancing, then some of the names you can give it are zombies_dancing.png, zomd.png, dancing_zombies.png, d_zomb_5.png and more!

TV pictures
Generally, you shouldn't take photos of the game on your TV. These tend to look horrible.

However, a big exception to this are pictures of the console Call of Duty games. Currently, PS2 emulators can barely run the PS2 CoD games, so pictures of TVs with the game on it are the only of source of images for those games.

Graphics settings
When taking pictures, try to make sure that your graphic settings are high and/or at maximum. This makes screenshots look much better.

If you can't up graphic settings without something really bad happening, like your computer exploding, then you can upload a picture with low graphic settings. However, it might be replaced by a picture with better graphics, so don't be angry if it is replaced.

Cropping
After you take a screenshot, you should crop the image so that only the thing you are focusing on is in the image. Infraview has an easy to use cropping system, so grab it if you want a free and easy way to crop pictures.

If you can't, an admin or another user will probably go back and crop the image himself.

Personal Images
Personal images are allowed. Yipee! Just remember than no porographic nor "gross-out" (like Goatse) images should be uploaded. You'll get a nice ban if you do so.