Suggestion: Sci Fi Horror

I launched this genre page fairly recently, but didn't consider a possible page image at the time. This poster I found of Apollo 18 gets the concept across pretty clearly, but do others have more/better suggestions?

Opened...seems good as a starting point.

Dead Space has more than a few. I wish this one was more visible at 350pix. Maybe this is more subtle◊, more generic, and I'm not sure if either of these are SFW.

The second one's not working...the others are alright, although the last probably won't work as well at wiki size as the others.

edited 19th Jul '15 6:03:44 PM by Willbyr

^^ I'm definitely a fan of those suggestions, but I think too much detail would be lost in scaling them down to 350 px.

3.3 isn't too bad:

[1] (page it's on, if that doesn't work)

How about this Choose Your Own Adventure book cover? Doesn't get much more straightforward than this...

Here is the same image, but not enormous, and color-corrected: [1]◊

Here's a new version, I cropped the image to 350 and removed the tilt.

edited 20th Jul '15 12:59:36 PM by Tuomas

That's my choice pending something better, although it could probably come down to 300 px and not suffer.

It is still enormous. 350 pixels is the maximum width, not the minimum or recommended size or whatever. An image that big looks odd when most page images are half that size or less.

350 is a good width for landscape-oriented images. For portrait-oriented images I like 350 tall instead, though that varies by user.

edited 20th Jul '15 1:02:07 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Here's a 300 pixels wide version. I guess you could make the image smaller by cropping off the "Choose Your Own Adventure" banner from the top, but it kinda loses it charm that way.

Nah, that version is good.

IMO the size of a two-dimensional image should be measured in two dimensions, not one. That is still about 154k square pixels. A 16x9 image that is 350 pixels wide would be about 69k square pixels. It's still over twice the size of an average page image on this site, for no good reason. (It's not like it needs to be bigger-than-average for text to be legible, or something.)

From a web design perspective that degree of inconsistency is appalling. Also the article description is short, so that image would be much larger than it, and dip way below the horizontal rule, which I think looks ugly.

edited 20th Jul '15 1:31:52 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Would it help to cut out the top part? It's not really adding to the illustrative properties of the image.

I'm sorry, if we make this any smaller, we're going to lose detail. There's no hard rule on how tall an image can be, beyond common sense, and in that regard, the most-recent version is fine.

for the Space Vampire. Undecided on size, though.

Okay, with that argument, I definitely support a smaller image and not the current suggestion.

Bump; anyone else for 13?

Sure, though I think the "CYOA #71" title can be cropped.

6 > 13 for the mere reason that I don't like images running into the example section which 13 is prone to.

^ I'm actually reconsidering Apollo 18 for that reason. Space Vampire loses too much detail at wiki size and is otherwise just too huge, while 6 gives me more of a sci-fi action vibe.

Something like this◊ actually does more with far less (personally, I think the vast emptiness of space is far more terrifying than having monsters show up on a spaceship) and doesn't have the scaling down problems.

edited 15th Aug '15 2:17:30 PM by Morgenthaler

I like your suggestion.

At wiki size compared to the other suggestions:

edited 19th Aug '15 4:57:01 AM by Morgenthaler