Help Tappedout Get Photos for the Last 14 Missing Promos
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Posted on May 17, 2021, 7:07 p.m. by Femme_Fatale
So there are 14 promos that I've been unable to find suitable photos for, so I'm hoping the community can take good photos to complete the promo database here.
- Archangel (Japanese)
- Castigate (FNM Promo)
- Curse of Thirst (FNM Promo)
- Gravedigger (FNM Promo)
- Jamuraan Lion (German)
- Phantasmal Dragon (Japanese)
- Sandbar Crocodile (Japanese)
- Shrieking Drake (Japanese)
- Silver Drake (CardZ Promo)
- Stonecoil Serpent (Resale Promo)
- Stream of Life (Japanese)
- Sword of Feast of Famine (2016 Grand Prix Promo)
- Terra Stomper (Resale Promo)
- Zhalfirin Knight (Japanese)
Criteria that make a good photo:
- No shadows
- No over-exposed parts
- No under-exposed parts
- Little damage on the artwork
- Black border quality in terms of damage doesn't matter as I paint that black.
- Having a consistent focus (basically no blurriness)
- No artifacting
- Consistent lighting, use like a loose leaf of paper against your light to diffuse it.
- Decent colour vibrancy.
Here are some examples of good photos of promos I have found in the past, and is a standard for what I hope for. The photos don't need to be as good as these, but it makes my job a lot easier.
Femme_Fatale says... #4
DarkMagician: The bottom half of this wing portrays extreme artifacting, it's basically low resolution colour gradients having really high contrast or colour variations.
May 17, 2021 9:52 p.m.
Omniscience_is_life says... #5
Femme_Fatale can you not use Scryfall's images? Seems like they have several of the ones you're looking for
May 17, 2021 11:23 p.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #6
Omniscience_is_life: Can't and also willingly choose not to because scans are aweful.
May 17, 2021 11:40 p.m.
Omniscience_is_life says... #7
Femme_Fatale can't because...?
In that case uploading card images is more of a pain than I thought
May 18, 2021 1:26 a.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #8
Omniscience_is_life: Not technically legal to alter scryfall images. Which I absolutely would be doing because scans are awful. They are inferior to photos in almost everyway unless you have an high quality professional scanner or something used for high budget animation films.
May 18, 2021 4 a.m.
Have you tried reaching out to youtubers that are known for their deep collections or maybe wotc themselves to see if they can provide photos?
May 18, 2021 7:11 a.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #10
WotC will not provide images. It's not even worth asking them. If they don't provide images to gatherer they won't provide images to scryfall, nor us.
And asking youtubers isn't really worth while, I'm but a random person to them.
May 18, 2021 6:47 p.m.
Doombeard1984 says... #11
Don't you need the new judge Promo Nicol Bolas, the Ravager Flip and The Gitrog Monster ?
May 19, 2021 5:07 a.m.
Femme_Fatale says... #13
Doombeard1984: Technically no, but the large resolution official images I do have don't have anti-aliasing, so it's gonna take like 30-50 hours to manually fix that.
smackjack says... #2
So "No artifacting" is a criteria yet you want a picture of Sword of Feast and Famine ? (ok, i go to bed now goodnight)
May 17, 2021 7:30 p.m.