Poor Image: Religion Of Evil

The current image is a bit of a spoiler, as it features one fairly important character who does a Face–Heel Turn in Sherlock Holmes with the movie's Villain. Also strictly speaking their order isn't a religion in the strictest sense, and more like an association of people who believe in magic and both god and the devil.

edited 16th Mar '12 3:32:22 PM by Ghilz

Any suggestions?

The one from Corrupt Church (which is bad for other reasons) could work.

This ?◊ Or that◊.

edited 16th Mar '12 3:41:24 PM by Ghilz

I prefer the first of those.

I do have to mention that the first one, while looking the part, it's properness as an example is questionable. It's a long, nattery story full of Depending on the Writer. It's an example, but probably not the purest of example.

EDIT: BTW, at Wiki size:

edited 16th Mar '12 4:09:03 PM by Ghilz

^ 245x350, brightened a smidgen◊

edited 16th Mar '12 4:11:57 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I kinda prefer it bigger, coz the priestess' fangs are more visible (Yes, she's a Vampire).

I was just about to say that I'd prefer it at around 300 px.

I pulled the current pic since Spoilers are insta pull.

I prefer it smaller. She looks evil enough even without the fangs.

For some reason, the source image had a white border. Cut out that and a little bit of the image itself, and added some brightness.

Maybe should be adjusted to something like 300 width like Willbyr suggested, but any less makes the fangs unclear. Maybe a little bit of the bottom area can still be cropped off as well. Something like up to that bottom guy's beard?

edited 17th Mar '12 12:39:58 AM by ThatHuman

The image that the OP pulled◊

I do not agree with the picture being pulled(honestly I get it,its a spoiler but its not that big a spoiler)

edited 17th Mar '12 3:48:09 AM by Ultimatum

I really prefer the Corrupt Church image. It's not suited for that page, but is an excellent image for this trope.

This one,◊ right?

It's rather big, and shrunken down to page image size makes it a wee bit unclear.

edited 28th Mar '12 4:18:43 PM by ThatHuman

Here is a crop of that (no mod-word on whether the gore is acceptable, does that mean it is ok? mainly zombie!Lincoln holding out his entrails), and shrunken version of the whole thing at Corrupt Church.

edited 28th Mar '12 4:40:33 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Honestly, the pulled picture wasn't a good illustration. I get what it was intended to depict, with the pentagram and black robes: it's supposed to be satanists. But they aren't doing anything evil. There's a guy blindfolded, but for all we know they're playing a harmless game or he's meditating or something. They aren't eating babies, worshipping an obviously evil monster, or even sacrificing animals (not that the last is enough to make a religion evil).

This vampire one looks a lot more evil.

Yup.

That works well.

Still need a decision to change the one on Corrupt Church, though, so we don't end up with a duplicate.

edited 28th Mar '12 5:06:49 PM by Feather7603

The image on Corrupt Church has been changed.

Goodie. Then I say the one that was there is excellent for this one now that there's less hinderance for it. Said it before, saying it again.

edited 7th Apr '12 2:50:33 PM by Feather7603

Just a reminder of what the old Corrupt Church pic used to be:

edited 7th Apr '12 3:10:46 PM by peasant

Or cropped:

Still too Gorny for my taste, especially in light of the clean-up efforts we've been doing lately.

You see the blood, but I think everything else is just too small to make out unless you try. Which isn't something you'd do if you're sensitive to such things. Unless you're also a masochist.

edited 8th Apr '12 8:54:55 AM by Feather7603

I think it's all right.

Thing is, due to not being very clear, a person might be more motivated to look at the picture closely.