Search Guide (for requesters)
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:03 pm
Since providing a good source with your request greatly improves your chances of a member comitting to making it I'll give you a few tips.
STEP 1 - Google's resolution settings
When searching for some art you always want the highest resolution possible to ease the creating process. Google's resolution tools is gret to source out all the low res crap.
STEP 2 - Similar/larger images
Okay, so you didn't find any good images using the above process. That's fine. Just because you didn't find the image you're looking for doesn't mean it isn't there. Let's say you found an image that would be perfect, but it's very low res. What you try then is to drag the image p to the search bar and release it in the container in the image.
After you've done that the following options should appear. Then you can look at the same image in higher res, or if that doesn't work, look for visually similar images in higher res (using the resolution settings from Step 1)
STEP 3 - Use different search phrases
No dice, huh? Well that's okay. There's one more option, which is to try different search phrases. Let's say you're trying to find an image for the movie Little Nicky (cause I got tired of The Dark Knight) and the obvious search "little nicky" didn't work for you. Then try any of the following or be creative: "little nicky 2000", "little nicky poster", "little nicky blu ray", "little nicky itunes"
Any of the above could give you search results different to the first one, which if you're lucky could include your golden image. The reason I included "little nicky itunes" is because Itunes has alot of great quality posters that can be hard to find elsewhere. the "2000" in "little nicky 2000" is the production year. That could help if you get lots of odd results not related to the movie you're looking for.
That's it. Happy hunting.
STEP 1 - Google's resolution settings
When searching for some art you always want the highest resolution possible to ease the creating process. Google's resolution tools is gret to source out all the low res crap.
STEP 2 - Similar/larger images
Okay, so you didn't find any good images using the above process. That's fine. Just because you didn't find the image you're looking for doesn't mean it isn't there. Let's say you found an image that would be perfect, but it's very low res. What you try then is to drag the image p to the search bar and release it in the container in the image.
After you've done that the following options should appear. Then you can look at the same image in higher res, or if that doesn't work, look for visually similar images in higher res (using the resolution settings from Step 1)
STEP 3 - Use different search phrases
No dice, huh? Well that's okay. There's one more option, which is to try different search phrases. Let's say you're trying to find an image for the movie Little Nicky (cause I got tired of The Dark Knight) and the obvious search "little nicky" didn't work for you. Then try any of the following or be creative: "little nicky 2000", "little nicky poster", "little nicky blu ray", "little nicky itunes"
Any of the above could give you search results different to the first one, which if you're lucky could include your golden image. The reason I included "little nicky itunes" is because Itunes has alot of great quality posters that can be hard to find elsewhere. the "2000" in "little nicky 2000" is the production year. That could help if you get lots of odd results not related to the movie you're looking for.
That's it. Happy hunting.