Lernin 2 Booru – How to Not Look Like a Twat on Image Sites

Author: NovaJinx

This is why we can’t have nice things. Also note the tag.

People, I don’t know what you’re thinking when you upscale a random H-game CG, proceed to upload it onto a danbooru-type site of your choice (ignoring each and every uploading rule and guideline) and call it a wallpaper. I honestly do not. But nevertheless I see it happen all the time no matter how any reasonably sane person should be able to understand what can or should be uploaded onto a specific site and what can / should not. No matter how clearly the guidelines and rules are stated, it seems that people just don’t get it. So for the good of public education and welfare I composed this handy post for you to refer to whenever you decide to make a moron out of yourself on a booru.

Personally I think there just is no way you can get a decent desktop wallpaper out of a 800*600 game CG for anything larger than a mini laptop. But some people seem to disagree. As decent wallpaper dumps define a minimum resolution for uploads, these knuckleheads decide to utilize the notorious practice of upscaling to have their irresistible urge to upload satisfied. Now this minimum resolution on most sites such as konachan is around 1024*768 which means that an 800*600 image needs to be upscaled by roughly 30% to qualify. Personally I hold 20% as the maximum rate that may still result in a decent image with some clean-up but 30% isn’t totally impossible either especially if the source image is clean and sharp. However as you’d expect of a person who’s unable to realize what a daft idea this is in the first place, the delicate mechanics of the process are rarely understood well enough. Let me show you how it’s done right with a random Aoi Shiro CG (click for a larger version, downscaling doesn’t really work with this):

Now as a warning example let me show how most people do it:

There are other ways around upscaling such as vectoring but this pretty much never works well for small upscales and complex images as it loses hell of a lot of details in the process. Oh, and just drop the lame watermarks, they don’t make you look like an artist.

But all in all the quality of art on English anime wallpaper sites is relatively good. Ironically the ones appearing to be least adept at producing decent anime wallpapers are Japanese themselves, judging from the average quality on kaberen. Oh and in case you thought that last pic in the warning example was an exaggeration – it was not. Something found on a Japanese-postan-only-image board:

Tags: graphics, picspam, QUALITY, rants, short, unfunny