jase:
Hi Pie,
Thanks for your interest, I'm sure the community appreciates it. I certainly do.
Shan will probably correct me, I believe the tasks are;
- Receive the submission (obviously). Currently this is via email. portraits@rpol.net are forwarded to wherever you like.
- Check for duplicates. This can be the real killer, it requires you to have familiarity with most of the gallery and to flip through the sections likely to have said duplicates. Duplicates (including flipped/mirror images) will sneak in, but we want to minimise them as much as possible.
- Review the submission;
- Make sure it's content appropriate (there's been some bizarre entries in the past).
- Make sure it's quality appropriate (no low quality images etc).
- Do a reverse image search (https://images.google.com) and do some investigation into the image. This might give you various bits of information such as where it came from (and if we're allowed to use it) or who the image is of (which can be good for figuring out what gallery to put it into or what keywords to use).
- Make sure it's mainly a face (when something with a face) or otherwise cropped appropriately.
- Make sure it's 100 x 100 pixels. Depending on your whim you might want to edit it down to the correct size.
- Optimise the image (while retaining quality), save as jpeg.
- Upload to the appropriate gallery section (which sometimes won't be what the submitter suggests).
- Update the portrait database with the new submission.
- Add the search data for the new portrait so people can find the new portrait by keywords (rather than browsing).
- Update the FAQ (/help/?t=faqs&page=portraitsfaq) with links to artists when required.
Currently the submissions are handled once a month and there's a limit of one per member, but that's something that you can dictate. The only think I'd ask is something consistent. You can handle submissions as soon as they're received and not have any limit, but for your own sanity I'd suggest not! People used to send in massive portrait zips.
As mentioned in the other thread I think there's been around 60 portraits added the gallery each month. Not sure how many unsuccessful that entails!
I've put as much information in as possible as I don't want to sugar-coat it and you get a horrible surprise about how much work is involved when you do actually go to do it! If you (or anyone else) are still interested then we can chat more via rMail.
tx
- resize the file to 5K -- it helps if you've got software that can do this
- edit the image for clarity at 100x100 pixels - a lot of the time this can involve playing with contrast, brightness, and also smoothing edges for drawn portraits as these do not resize smoothly or well.
-keep a detailed list of numbering. If you screw up the numbering of the portraits when you name, it will screw up the gallery.
-pics must be converted to *.jpg, and the extension must be in lower case or it won't show up
-be aware of copyright issues as possible. For instance, Disney does not allow the use of its images on other websites (no Disney pics in the gallery) and some artists specifically state that they do not allow the use of their images (Larry Elmore, the guy who does 'Order of the Stick')
-keep in mind that you're not only risking problems for rpol, you're risking problems for the volunteer hosts of the portraits
-uploading the portraits will require software or an app for FTP
-remember rpol's requirements - no text on pics other than watermarks, no nudity, no duplicates, no altered pics of artist's work
-also be aware that you're going to get stuff sent to the portrait emails
that has nothing to do with portrait submissions -- some of it not very pleasant
-maintain a copy of the portrait gallery on your local computer. The portraits are hosted on volunteer servers, and you never know when you might need to reload, either because the host changes servers or there is an issue at the host that causes data loss. Not to mention what happens when you make mistakes yourself ...
-keep in mind that changing a currently existing portrait may cause problems for users of that portrait. Don't do it unless necessary, and if you do, figure out a way to minimize the effect for anyone using the portrait
This message was last edited by the user at 13:28, Mon 26 Dec 2016.