Image Help Thread

[Alex95]

Trying to find a good spot to put an image, but instead of going to one person for help or showing the image in a random, scrambled thread like the General Discussion, I thought "Why not make a thread about this type of thing?" This way, users can show their images that they found and ask for help as to where it should go on the wiki, whether it's authentic or not, what categories need to be included, etc.

I'll go first.
Found this gif on the My Nintendo Reward for the new Yoshi theme for the 3DS. I could upload it and put it in Gallery:Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World, but so many images are found solely in galleries and die get lost, so what would be a good place to put the image? Would Yoshi Theater (Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World) be a good place, considering the shorts is where this gif came from?

I could also maybe upload the theme itself. Do we do that? I have a few other Mario-related themes I could snap a pic of and include.

Image:

 

[Xiahou Ba]

I can't really think of a specific use of this gif OTHER than in gallery articles. If placed on the main article, it artificially jacks up loading time, and the gif is very distracting to readers. It doesn't even really illustrate anything either, so there's basically no practical use for it. Galleries do serve an important function, many users myself included enjoy browsing through galleries and just looking at images.

 

[Alex95]

For some reason, loading times and distractions did not come to mind (I'm kinda half-asleep today). Alright, I'll just put this in the general gallery then :P

EDIT: For the Nintendo 3DS#List of Mario-related themes, do the Smash Brothers themes count as "related"?

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

This thread is nice, I always did feel really awkward making new threads to ask about every image I was unsure of :P

I got this out of File:Logo_EN_-_Bowsers_Inside_Story.svg

These silhouettes are a common feature in Mario & Luigi series logos. Is it worth uploading?

 

[Alex95]

It's a good sized image and you can clearly tell it's Mario and Luigi, so I don't see why not. I think it'd be cool to have

 

[Lakituthequick]

If you extracted it from a SVG, I'd also save it as a SVG.

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

OK I can do that, but would it be ideal to put in the Bowser's Inside Story gallery, or perhaps the page for the Mario & Luigi series since it appears on most of the logos (and all of them in the Japanese versions)?

 

[Alex95]

This specific one should go in the BiS gallery, but if this has appeared in the other logos (and is exactly the same as the others), then it could go in the other galleries as well.

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

ok actually I did run into an issue. I can't crop the SVG to the correct size, or at least I have no idea how to. Inkscape puts it inside this huge document sized rectangle and I have no idea how to shrink that.

Spoiler: what I mean

 

[Lakituthequick]

You should go to File > Document Properties (Shift + Ctrl + D), where you can find a box called Custom size. Resize page to content..., all margins at 0, click the button and you should have just cropped it.

 

[Fawfulthegreat64]

Done:

File:Mario&Luigi.svg

It's not as big as the PNG above because SVGs can be rescaled infinitely so I didn't feel the need to make it huge at default. If this is something that is preferred, I can update it with a bigger one.