Help talk:Images

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[edit] .ini?

I can't find my .ini files, I have checked both "my documents" andwhere I installed it, but I can't find them? --81.232.125.202 15:09, 9 March 2007 (EST)

Are you looking for Oblivion or Morrowind? (And hopefully if you were looking for Morrowind's you realized that the page had a typo, the file you're looking for is Morrowind.ini, not Morrowidn.ini). You may also need to check your windows options; make sure that you're telling windows to display all files, and make sure that windows is listing the extensions for file names. --Nephele 15:31, 9 March 2007 (EST)

No, it's strange but I can't find the Oblivion .ini's? I want to enable screenshots in oblivion but... :( --81.232.125.202 14:19, 10 March 2007 (EST) PS. I can find a file called Oblivion.esm in the "data" folder but I can't find anything else :(

Nevermind, I found it, why didnät I see it before? :S --81.232.125.202 14:30, 10 March 2007 (EST)

[edit] structure of help page is unsatisfying

When I read through the Help:Images page, it seems to me that most topics are out of order. I would prefer to have it in a different more workflow like order, like: prerequisite, capturing screenshots, improving screenshots and preparing images, uploading, adding images to pages, linkable images, viewing images, additional help, links. Are there any objections if I 'improve' this page like this ? --Adjego 07:25, 5 February 2008 (EST)

No objections but for a big change to a help page it's probably going to be best if you write it in a private sandbox first and then invite comments rather than just replacing it. What's helpful to one person is obvious to another so it's always a good idea to get feedback from the wider community. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 07:30, 5 February 2008 (EST)

OK! Please have a look at User:Adjego/Sandbox for the rearranged page. There are only very little changes in content and nothing was removed. How do I get feedback from the wider community ? -- Adjego 15:52, 5 February 2008 (EST)

That looks fine to me. If anybody else has any comments I'm sure they'll make them in a couple of days. If nobody has any complaints, just paste it over the existing article in a week or so. That might seem a long time but for help and policy pages it's usually a good idea to wait in case anybody has a problem. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 11:05, 6 February 2008 (EST)

Looks good to me. After reading this help page again for the first time in a while, there are a few other tweaks I could see doing (missing links, etc), but I'll wait until you've put your new copy in place to make those tweaks. --Nephele^Talk 20:13, 13 February 2008 (EST)

Yes, there are a couple of things I like to change as well. But for this version I thought to only change the layout/order without content changes. (Well I did change 2 things...) I'm going to make the change as soon as possible. Too busy at the moment. -- Adjego 16:09, 14 February 2008 (EST)

(Update) The changed page is now uploaded. -- Adjego 10:09, 15 February 2008 (EST)

[edit] Screenshots are too dark

I can't seem to make my screenshots bright enough. I've tried 100-magnitude night-eye, and it makes almost no difference. When I turn up the gamma correction to the brightest setting, it just makes the image darker! Also, when I try to use Photoshop to make the picture brighter, it doesn't work withoud destroying the image quality. Is there anything else I should try? Thedolphindude 12:15, 12 June 2008 (EDT)

Of course, make sure your brightness is up to a god level, but check your monitor's brightness too, that could be a cause too.-Puddle ^{Talk•Contribs.} 12:21, 12 June 2008 (EDT)

More important than brightness in Photoshop is contrast. If you just crank the brightess, it ends up looking all grey and foggy, or just washed out. What you need to do is adjust the contrast. Open up the Levels (Image/Adjust/Levels, or simply Ctrl-L), and when you see the histogram, you'll notice that most of the image falls well below the halfway point of the curve. Move the white slider to the left, just to where the curve begins to rise. You might want to adjust the grey slider a bit as well, depending on the image. The example on the side shows a before and after of what a curve should look like. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 12:31, 12 June 2008 (EDT)

Thanks, it worked great. Thedolphindude 13:06, 12 June 2008 (EDT)