TV Show Thumbs for Multiplex (Wide Poster "FanArt with Logos")

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24
The Tudors

There's some that i can't upload to thetvdb, it seems to upload but they didn't show

A few alternatives:
Bones
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dollhouse

And some new ones:
Castle (2009)
Prison Break
Prison Break (2)
Prison Break (3)

I've posted this on the TVdb forum as well -

Quote:I personally think they should be completely separate from Fanart (called something like Wide Poster as they're not meant as backdrops) and even see if we can get them an extra label for XBMC to scan to the library.
This will allow people to use different views in skins without having to entirely re-do their complete posters collection each time.

Thoughts?

http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?...4320#p4320

Hitcher Wrote:I've posted this on the TVdb forum as well -



http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?...4320#p4320

I agree with this.

It also means that they don't have to store high res versions of them, because lets be honest, they don't need to be that large do they??

Hitcher Wrote:I've posted this on the TVdb forum as well -



http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?...4320#p4320

Yep, exactly what I was thinking. That way we could create proper TV show thumbs which are easy to read, rather than ones where the text is too small, which I'm thinking maybe some of these may be? It would mean having another image file in the same folder as the TV show, but at least it could be a small image, and not 720p or 1080p?!

Anyway, maybe this is a little off topic - apologies.

thanks to everyone who's contributed so far. they look amazing. i'm not great with photoshop but here's a few i put together.

24
Hyperdrive
Star Trek: Voyager

dyt72 Wrote:There's some that i can't upload to thetvdb, it seems to upload but they didn't show

I had this same issue. Its a file size thing. Take the quality down a notch or 2 when you save as jpg in photoshop (assuming you're using photoshop).

I think that the size limit is 500kb so get it below this and it should be fine.

And good work on the one for 24. Much better than my failed attempt

I for one dont' think they need to be so large in resolution part of the reason i wanted to adopt this "not so wide" icon format was partially because art would be easily available for any TV Show, however popular it may be...

I would opt for a third of 1080P resolution making the thumb 640x320, as i don't foresee these being used for anything else, i.e. fanart and such.

just a thought!

Ayala Wrote:I for one dont' think they need to be so large in resolution part of the reason i wanted to adopt this "not so wide" icon format was partially because art would be easily available for any TV Show, however popular it may be...

I would opt for a third of 1080P resolution making the thumb 640x320, as i don't foresee these being used for anything else, i.e. fanart and such.

just a thought!

This would be fine if thetvdb added a new section for these images but without that they only way we can get them easily distributed is to upload them in the fanart section which requires 720p as a minimum.

I think in the end we all agree they should be smaller and separate from fanart, making these at 720p is overkill for the current use. Ideally a new "banner" size on thetvdb would work great.

But right now if we go that route (ie not fanart-sized) we have no way of hosting them beyond a bunch of links in this thread to a mix of upload services.

If we want to move away from fanart sized we should at least make sure they all end up in the same place, so when thetvdb adds support for this type we can easily move them all over.

Maybe a flickr group, or I could thrown down a small image sharing library on my web server? What do you guys think?