User talk:Supermariofan67

Welcome, Supermariofan67!

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Signature

Dear Supermariofan67, Your current signature is in violation of one or more of the rules listed on MarioWiki:Signatures (too many images). Please change your signature and keep the regulations and requirements in mind when creating future designs. If you have not made the appropriate changes within one week of receiving this notice, your signature will be changed for you.

You can only have up to two static images on your signature. --TheFlameChomp (talk) 12:00, 16 February 2017 (EST)

Ok. I fixed it. --Super Mario Fan ⁶⁷ (T•C•S) 12:03, 16 February 2017 (EST)

Wii U Uploads

Very good uploads. I don't think most people know that trick that you can play a Wii U game live, use the built-in web browser, and navigate to a website that has an upload dialog UI (MarioWiki in this case going to Special:Upload) to upload a screenshot 1280x720 in resolution. I have all sorts of tricks in a WIP guide all about uploading high quality images. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) ^{(Stats - Contribs)} 17:35, 21 February 2017 (EST)

Thanks! I'm not sure how other people get such bad images. This is the only way I know to do it. --Super Mario Fan ⁶⁷ (T•C•S) 17:38, 21 February 2017 (EST)

Many people take a lazier way of doing things, such as Google Image Search or YouTube snapshots. They had the power all along to upload high quality screenshots and never realized it. There is also the factor of not understanding how an image format works and what format is best for what situation. Recently, it became policy not to convert between formats. Don't confuse this with replacing because it is not against policy redoing a picture, which requires more effort than just converting an image to a different format. I replace images frequently. Here's my uploads, the delete log, and stuff to delete. From my experiences, just for screenshots and sprites, PNG for everything except for Wii U screenshots and Miiverse uploads because those cases are JPEG. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) ^{(Stats - Contribs)} 17:51, 21 February 2017 (EST)

Optimizing PNGs

If you are concerned about the color changes, likely the PNG contained metadata, which web browsers ignore, how to color correct the base image. An optimizer applies the changes permanently, as described in a FAQ here. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) ^{(Stats - Contribs)} 15:14, 27 February 2017 (EST)

That's what I thought. I just got concerned that a few of them were very different. Super Mario Fan ⁶⁷ (T•C•S) 15:25, 27 February 2017 (EST)

Saving JPEGs

What are you using to save JPEGs? Microsoft Paint? If you are, use FastStone Image Viewer and set the JPEG settings to 100%. It won't completely make the images lossless, but lossy encoding will be minimal. --Wildgoosespeeder (talk) ^{(Stats - Contribs)} 23:36, 9 March 2017 (EST)

I crop images in MacOS's built-in Preview app, which might have the same effect that Paint does. I could try Gimp. I think it has the ability to set quality when saving.--Super Mario Fan ⁶⁷ (T•C•S) 23:55, 9 March 2017 (EST)