Extra Thumbs
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:42 pm
I'd like to propose a new category for your humble consideration:
Extra Thumbs.
This seems to be a gap in our current offering or anyone's offering in fact. A lot of themes nowadays support the display of extra thumbs. Or screenshots from the movie in question. Usually in the information area. The problem is that as far as I know there isn't any place to scrape these images automatically. And they all need to be done either with a scraping tool such as Ember. Or manually. The outcomes of the above two options usually creates images with black bars due to aspect ratio, or just general low quality images.
If we were to offer Extra Thumbs perhaps at the same resolution as our current landscape images I think we could reduce the above problems, while still providing the highest quality images. As an added bonus it should also reduce the number of screen caps we get submitted into the fanart section. And because decent quality images of movies are so easy to find I predict that this section should fill up fairly quickly.
Thoughts?
Extra Thumbs.
This seems to be a gap in our current offering or anyone's offering in fact. A lot of themes nowadays support the display of extra thumbs. Or screenshots from the movie in question. Usually in the information area. The problem is that as far as I know there isn't any place to scrape these images automatically. And they all need to be done either with a scraping tool such as Ember. Or manually. The outcomes of the above two options usually creates images with black bars due to aspect ratio, or just general low quality images.
If we were to offer Extra Thumbs perhaps at the same resolution as our current landscape images I think we could reduce the above problems, while still providing the highest quality images. As an added bonus it should also reduce the number of screen caps we get submitted into the fanart section. And because decent quality images of movies are so easy to find I predict that this section should fill up fairly quickly.
Thoughts?