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Some new user is repeatedly re-uploading crappy and blurry pictures of the 2012-13 ITG Heroes and Prospects set since three or four days. The back sides are okay, but the front images are terrible. They make it to the database, because someone is marked them as reviewed when they should obviously be rejected for quality issue.  How is such a thing possible? Here below are some examples:

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/76003/cid/5525968/2012-13-In-The-Game-Heroes-and-Prospects-195-Samuel-Morin

I actually approved a handful of these....when I first saw them in the queue I thought they looked weird so I went to the checklist and clicked on a card that had images and it had the blurry effect also so I thought that was the way they were supposed to be. I obviously must have clicked on one that had already gone through.

Makes them look like lenticulars.

Maybe you could tell Admin it was your mistake and ask him to remove them and not just mark them "Need Replacing".

If they're like the other seasons, the update set cards should be similar to the base set. It looks like that original poster has trouble to use his scanner. The backs are fine, but the quality varies a lot for the front cards and that's the strangest part. Compared to the base cards, some of the new cards are quite ok (maybe a bit colour washed), but some others are totally a beer google (doubled) variation. I don't want to blame no one. It is more to avoid wasting our efforts and make the things right now before we need to replace more pictures in more sets in the future.

Beat me to it. Interested to know for sure though.

If your unsure of an image you should do a google search for it, to compare it to others and never compare an image with another image from the same person. Unless you're spotting a hair or a scratch that appears on more than one of their image. Then you can tell them to clean their scanner and why. 

Unfortunately, this happens on a lot of websites when you outsource people to do the art when they do not have an artist's eye. I do work at fanart.tv and they have a system where two people have to approve an image and if you let too many bad images in, you are kicked off the approval board. 

They have a simple way of looking at it. Just because you have an imaging system does not make you an artist. After all, you would not go to a butcher's to have a kidney transplant.

It takes a lot of time & practice to be good at something and a good decade to be great at it. If you're not willing to put the time in to be good at something, you should be doing something else.

Two people to approve an image will bring up the qualty and having a way for the two to communicate will also improve their ability. This is where a chat room for the website comes in handy. Even if people in the chat room are not doing images. you can post a link and ask what do you think about this image if you are unsure. You will get quick feedback and production & quality will go up.

Most sports are a team effort and it takes communication in the team to be great.

Yes, these are 3-D lenticular cards. This is about what you would expect them to look like scanned.

I'm the new user who uploaded these cards.  They are a 3-D still card move them to the left the image changes, move them to the right the image changes.  I have no issues with my scanner.

They've been processed through now.  The reviewer probably didn't realize they were 3D type cards.

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From: rich85nal
Sent: Tue, 4/20/2021 9:32 AM
To: Admin

Hi,

I'm new to this site, and I've started filling in gaps in the hockey section with card photos.  However I am having a problem with getting some cards approved.  They are from the 2012/13 In The Game Heroes & Prospects set - The C13 cards.  The problem with these cards are that they are a 3D type card.  I've have tried scanning them back and forwards, right side and upside down and the best I can get is what I have submitted.  They keep coming back as "Low Quality".  I don't know what else I can do.  I have tried with a camera, but there is always some kind of shadow cast across the card.  If these cards can't be accepted as is (1st Try - April 18th, rescanned and resent April 19th) can you please erase them from my pending, as I am done trying scanning these cards. Thanks for taking the time to look into this.

(rich85nal)

Since these are lenticlers these scans are absolutely fine.