There are countless images across the wiki that — while they look fine with the normal display — contrast badly with Night Vision's color scheme. The purpose of this thread is to weed these images out by replacing them with either transparent versions, or sometimes just a higher-quality version.
What causes an image to contrast most often is that it has an unnecessary, blank white background. A good example is the former image for Orbot & Cubot
◊ on the character subpage for Sonic The Hedgehog, which has since been swapped out for a transparent version
◊.
Another cause is when the image in question is already transparent, but it wasn't cut out properly and now has an unsightly artifact of its background around it. For example, the former image
◊ for Studio Ghibli, which has also been replaced with a cleaner version
◊.
These details are basically impossible to notice on the normal display's white background, and since not everyone uses Night Vision regularly, a lot of these images sneak through. Please keep Night Vision in mind when suggesting or uploading any new image for use on a page.
To tell if an image needs replacing, just switch on Night Vision (if you don't already have it enabled) and see if the image has either of the two problems detailed above. If it does, then either add it to this index and report it here so someone can replace it or, if you are able to, go ahead and replace the image yourself. You don't need to ask for permission; image quality upgrades are a free action. You are not obligated to report any upgrades you made here, but that would be appreciated, since that would help this thread get traffic.
Please note that not every image with a white background will need to be replaced. In some cases the white background is as much a part of the image as any other detail. Take for instance, the page image
◊ for The Lost Room. Other examples, like any page that uses a panel from a black-and-white comic or manga, such as the current image
◊ for Heroic Resolve, should also be okay (unless the background takes up a unusual amount of space, then it will probably just need to be cropped). If you are unsure if an image should be replaced, bring it up here.
Edited by Primis on Feb 4th 2019 at 7:43:21 AM
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Swapped in both Chinese Vampire and Red Is Violent.
Edited by rjd1922 on Nov 25th 2019 at 6:46:57 AM
Keet cleanup
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Came out good
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I think the image
◊ on Mega Man Powered Up should have a white outline, since you can see the partial ones around Mega Man and Roll.
Edited by rjd1922 on Nov 29th 2019 at 8:23:30 AM
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Can someone fix Security Blanket?
Edited by WarJay77 on Dec 29th 2019 at 9:31:26 AM
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Hello. I'd like to know how to make a transparent image because neither Microsoft Word nor LunaPic cut out images properly.
Edited by IukaSylvie on Jan 1st 2020 at 11:55:16 PM
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Or GIMP, which can be downloaded for free.
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Thank you! Unfortunately, not even remove.bg worked properly.
I also wonder how to cut out an image smoothly because an image I edited to test GIMP ended up having a rough line.
Edited by IukaSylvie on Jan 2nd 2020 at 4:27:23 AM
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I use the fuzzy select (magic wand) tool to select the background with antialiasing checked, with as high a threshold as possible before it starts selecting parts I don't want erased, and then delete the background. You can hold shift and click to select other parts you want erased.
Can I swap in the Fake Arm Disarm image, or should it be brightened?
Edited by rjd1922 on Jan 2nd 2020 at 8:06:35 AM
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Thank you.
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I think Fake Arm Disarm is okay to swap in.
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Granny Classic has a transparent image but it's just black and white in normal display... and just black and dark-grey in night vision. I think it might actually look better non-transparent.
Could this
image be made transparent, please? Thanks in advance!
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I've been trying and failing to make Security Blanket transparent without having jaggedly lines around Linus. Any help?
As for Granny Classic, we should probably just get a different image entirely. It'll look bad either way.
Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 10th 2020 at 3:37:05 PM
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Found a slightly-different transparent version of the Linus pic:
Edited by Primis on Jan 10th 2020 at 2:20:41 AM
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That's very good. It's almost the same as the current one so I guess it'll count as quality upgrade and no new thread in IP is necessary? Or should we start one just to be safe?
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Crop and replace for me.
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Thread for Granny Classic. Yet to be opened.
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Updated Security Blanket, thanks
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I think this is an inverted problem with Characters.Arknights Others, the faction logos are completely white on a transparent background, which is fine for Night Vision, but looks absolutely awful on a light background. Please tell me if I should go to a different part of the site for this problem.
One of the images (Night Vision or clicking on this post's url is needed to see it properly): ![[down]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_down.png "[down]"){kind=icon}
Edited by Nouct on Jan 19th 2020 at 9:29:36 AM
All of the images on Characters.Daria, aside from Amy and Tommy's, have remains of white backgrounds where someone clearly tried to make them transparent. While many of them look fine in normal vision, night vision makes the flaws visible. A couple of examples:
I suggested these
◊ images
◊ for different TLP drafts ("Monster Whale"
and "Fiendish Fish
", respectively). Could they be made transparent, please? Much appreciated!
Edited by Morgenthaler on Nov 25th 2019 at 11:07:01 AM
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