Forum:Image sizes

I've opened this forum because I've found an inconsistency in the sizing of images on the spell pages of the wiki. There are currently two varying sizes of gifs being used: 190px and 200px. Similarly, the sizes of png or jpg images on the spell pages alternate between 190px and 200px. Because of this, the infoboxes are inconsistent, alternating between the two sizes as some gifs are 190px and others are 200px. Similarly, some gifs are 200px but some corresponding manga images are placed at 190px.

This does not solely affect spell pages, as even character pages have ended up looking like this in some cases.

The layout guide says the images in spell infoboxes should be at 190px but the image policy says we generally set them at 200px. Furthermore, the Image Guild page says that gifs are to be made at 200px. As such, I opened this forum to decide how images should be sized on spell infoboxes and how large gifs in general should be.

Please place your votes below on how large still images should be in the image infobox and at what size the gifs should be.

This is the best option in my opinion. It would make the sizes of images and gifs in infoboxes consistent with the article image sizes. As the new standard of gifs is already 200px, putting still images in the infobox at that size makes them more consistent with one another. 190px is too unusual of a number and I do not see the benefit in keeping it solely for the spell infoboxes, especially when it looks as awkward with still images when placed together, as seen on Levy's page. With the new standard, gifs sized at 190px are slowly getting less and less common. The only drawback I see here is that the gifs that are currently sized at 190px would have to be resized however, I see that as a small consequence of having the wikis images set at a uniform and consistent size across the site.

200px. That's the size I know by far, and got accustomed with. X3

I don't see why there is any reason to change this, and it really doesn't change "anything" if it is changed. It's been like this since the beginning. Newcomers just don't read the Layout Guide and make the spell pages' static images 200px. You pointed out the Levy example, and that really doesn't relate as only the gifs are varying but every other image is 200px like the Layout Guide states. The LG specifically states 190px for the spell pages. The images are 190px in the spell pages info box because generally the spell pages don't contain a lot of writing, just one to two sentences. If we were to go change everything to 200, then every gif that is 190px will have to be edited in PS and simply changing the size will slightly make it lose quality. In other words, the IG Mages would have to take all of those 190px gifs and replace them by doing the whole process from scratch. Unless we want them less HQ. Uniformity doesn't or should not apply to this. And don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that 190px is better than 200px and vice versa. Just that it makes no difference here. 18:43, November 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * To clarify my issue when pointing out Levy's page, the issue I'm having is that still images are set at 200px while the gifs are at 190px and when seeing them one under another, the inconsistency is plainly visible. This is similar to various spell infoboxes where the gif is 200px but the still manga image has to be 190px, thus enlarging and shrinking the infobox when the options are cycled. The change is effectively aesthetic but for the purpose of consistency across the wiki

200px. This size is better.

200px. I absolutely don't understand the purpose of spell images being 190px when literally everything else is 200px... Also, I don't see why changing the rules to 200px would mean that we suddenly have to redo all 190px gifs when you, Mega, yourself said that currently it's up to the maker whether he makes it 200px, 190px or anything else. 18:58, November 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * Misk, the voting is on "how large still images should be in the image infobox and at what size the gifs should be." We're deciding both of them here. Mega's right that if the 200px wins, the 190px gifs need to be resized for consistency because part of the problem is that they're too small in some cases, like I pointed out on Levy's page. Should the voting section be reorganized?
 * Oh, my bad. My brain is dead. Personally, I find changing old gifs unnecessary, though I do see your point with Levi's section. I guess I'll be up for 200px even if it forces us to redo the gifs. The IG will at least have more things to do ;o 19:05, November 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * The thing is, the IG Mages are all busy. Look at the chart, only Rif and I have done something this month (Not even you, Misk *Disappoint*), lol. But yes, what Prime said is correct. 19:07, November 21, 2013 (UTC)

I'm actually with Mega on this. I'm all for uniformity, but we probably have hundreds of gifs that are set at 190px and it would take far too much work to re-edit them all and make them 200px, and plus, as Mega mentioned, it would decrease the quality of them. And for what? 10px? You guys have to look at the bigger picture here. You can barely see the difference on Levy's page, so why initiate this huge change for something so minuscule? 19:06,11/21/2013