I always feel like everytime i upload something, i feel like i'm not putting in my best effort in tagging. So i really appreciate tips or pointers to help me tag posts better.
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It'sTheTickerTocker said:
I always feel like everytime i upload something, i feel like i'm not putting in my best effort in tagging. So i really appreciate tips or pointers to help me tag posts better.
One of the first, major pointers is "tag everything you see". How many boys? girls? what are their hair colors? is the hair long or short? eye color, outdoors or indoors, day or night, background color, and so forth. If it's in the picture, tag it.
Also, there's a wiki on howto:tag which goes into much more specifics.
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you're tagging looks pretty good rn tbh
you'll get better the more you do it; you'll know the names of more tagged things, and be able to quickly pick them out in an image
I always make sure I tag the physical aspects of any characters (hair length and color and style, eye color, expression, pose, whatever activities they're doing, abnormal features like horns or green skin), and their clothes (the names and colors of the garments and accessories, plus aspects like frills or cutouts), and any objects present in the image, or the background color if it's just a flat color. There's also composition tags describing how much of the character is visible in the image, the overall palette of the image, the camera angle, and any borders surrounding the image.
Basically howto:tag_checklist, except that page makes the act of tagging look more complicated than it actually feels in practice, because it spells everything out and gives lots of examples of tags to use. (Which is good, but can be formidable to read at first.)
Be careful with transparency and don’t add transparent background to images that don’t actually have a transparent background (especially JPEGs, which can’t have transparency).
You can use the custom CSS from forum #134583 to make transparency visible by adding a checkerboard background.
kittey said:
Be careful with transparency and don’t add transparent background to images that don’t actually have a transparent background (especially JPEGs, which can’t have transparency).
You can use the custom CSS from forum #134583 to make transparency visible by adding a checkerboard background.
Thanks!
I wish I knew how to use it, though