Detective Conan Wiki:Manual of Style/Profile pictures

This is a good profile picture

This page is a picture guide on how to select excellent profile pictures. Profile pictures have been a hotspot edit wars. Fights over profile pictures are best avoided by not uploading pictures that are lack the necessary qualities described below.

Profile pictures should use the standard name and image format

Using the standard image name lets other users keep track of past versions of the profile, avoids orphaning files, and streamlines actions involving large numbers of profile images down the line.

• The standard name is (Given Name)_(Family Name)_Profile.jpg

The image has proper proportions

Profile pictures should have proper proportions. Train yourself to notice images that gave been stretched or distorted and always check images before you upload them, especially if you use a screenshotting program.

This image has been stretched out vertically and is not acceptable.

This image is is squashed horizontally and is not acceptable.

The image shows all of the character's most distinguishing features

Any animated character, especially those in Detective Conan have distinguishing facial features and hairstyles. An excellent profile picture captures all of these in as close to their entirety as possible. Consider the below images of Hattori Heiji.

File:Heiji Hattori Profile1.jpg This image is further from Hattori's face so his hair point and hat are both in the frame

This image is filled by Hattori's face so that his hair point and hat are not visible.

Hattori's face's most distinctive traits are his dark skin, blue green eyes, horizontal hairpoint, and distinctive ballcap. The image on the left captures all of those within the frame, versus the second which has cut out the hat and hair. The one on the left is thus a better profile image.

Profile pictures should be the best quality of animation

Aoyama Gosho and the animators vary the quality of images from frame to frame depending on how important the scene is or whether they are using a model. Only select images from the highest quality frames.

The image is of good quality

Profile pictures should be of good quality. Images should be relatively large so that they are shrunken, not enlarged, when automatically resized for the profile template. While jpeg images are not compressed particularly well on wiki software and thus tend to be grainy no matter what, it is best that the images be taken on the highest resolution anyway so as no to increase the magnitude of the problem, and so they look nice to anyone who decides to few the image on the largest size.

This image has been saved with noticeable jpeg artifacts. It is also quite small.

This image is large and saved at high quality.

The image does not have noticeable watermarks or borders

Profile images with no watermarks or the watermarks edited out are the most preferable. Watermarks from Japanese TV stations are generally accepted because they are small and unintrusive. Images with watermarks from anime upload sites or fansubbing groups are strongly frowned upon and should not be uploaded at all if possible.

Images uploaded from the manga should have the borders and bubbles cropped out as much as possible.

Images should not be especially dark or unusually lit

Dark images do not show up well on dim monitors, something common when saving batteries on laptops. Also unusually colored lighting distorts the character's to appearance.

• Akako's servant

Profile pictures should have "normal" expressions

Profile images should have whatever expression is most common or characteristic of that character, or else a neutral to slightly happy expression.

• Takagi image

Images should match the character's current appearance

People often go the most overboard on this and upload lower quality images simply because they are newer, without any other redeeming features. Unless the character has changed style or appearance significantly, old images are perfectly fine.

Profile pictures should be looking toward the reader or close to that

It is distracting and disconnecting when a person in a profile image is looking nowhere near outword

• Vermouth image

Profile pictures should not be especially idiosyncratic

Sort of a catch all category, their are many images that are just off for one reason or another.