a batman robi *fyr fyr* wybaczcie mam goraczke. nadal nie widzialam tutaj opinii reszty adminow wiec... co robimy w koncowym rozrachunku? bo nie zmusicie ludzi by pisali jak nie chca. a znowuz 10 osobowa grupa to tak troche marnie... :/

Dlatego dobrze by bylo uslyszec tutaj opinie pozostalych adminow najlepiej poparta jakimis konkretnymi argumentami :P I jak powiedzialam ojca zalozyciela, w koncu to on najlepiej wie jaki cel i charakter przyswiecal stworzeniu grupy. Plus glosowanie by nie zaszkodzilo chyba ze okarze sie ze 99% adminow jest za xP

No to w ten sposob zostanie nam mniej niz 10 members :/ nie wiem ale zawsze mi sie wydawalo ze jesli idzie o PDTC to sama chec przynalezenia wystarczy. Owszem byloby milo gdyby ludzie zaczeli sie udzielac ale nie wszyscy moga, chca lub maja czas. A jakby ta jedna jedyna cecha ktora laczy grupe jest nasza narodowosc prawda? Nie to czy ktos rysuje, tworzy tapety etc. Wiec moze jakies glosowanie i ewentualnie wypowiedz ojca zalozyciela? Plus o ile mnie pamiec nie myli to juz kiedys z Lilimem probowalismy tchnac nowe zycie w grupe poprzez posty w gb members i nie wiele to dalo ... :S

Jakie kryterium chcialabys/liscie przyjac w celu ewaluacji kto jest aktywny a kto nie? I jak dlugo ktos nie powinien sie pokazywac zeby zostac uznanym nieobecnym na MT?

two major problems:
- the extraction (everything kuroimisa said on the matter is right)
- the scan does not blend with the background, what does it mean, it is completely separate and not a part of the background, which is partially due to the problems with extraction

What is bad in this wall is the extraction. Honestly, we have been telling you guys that a decent extraction is a must. It really determines a quality of the final wall. There is also a place in the wall, the blue-haird guy's sleeve that was cut and you did not bother to redraw the missing part. Thus redraw it. Also the scans are not clean, there is a lot of noise so you might wanna improve this as well. That is all about the wall.

And I will say it for the thousand time, there are certain requirements for wallpaper to get accepted. We do not expect new wallers to be perfect, but we do expect some basic quality requirement. So if you can honestly say that your wallpaper meets everything specified in the FAQ the more probable it will get accepted.

Quote by FAQ
How is the quality and effort of my wallpapers evaluated?(edit)
» This is an important subject, as many wallpapers are deleted every day. There are minimum effort and quality requirements for submitted wallpaper because minitokyo wants to provide high quality content and in order to reduce the leeching, since leeches are generally scared by effort.
Actually, effort is more important than quality, especially for new members. These are four points that, if followed, will greatly increase the chances of your wallpapers staying on Minitokyo.
1) Extraction. The act of taking a character out of a scan to put in your wallpaper. Polygonal lasso or pen tool + at least 500% zoom is your friend if well used, while magic wand generally makes for worse wallpapers, and shows less effort
2) Cleaning. If the scan is grainy or contains other artifacts, cleaning the image is an important point
3) Layout. A decent composition is important. A thought out wallpapers is certainly more appealing and represent a higher level of quality/effort
4) Quality and effort in designing the background. This is a topic too vast to be covered here, but try to make quality backgrounds. Monocolor or other extremely simple or filter-whore backgrounds, while nice in some cases, usually do not lead the moderator to judge your wallpaper a high effort one.
Of course we're not expecting new members, nor old ones, to be perfect in every one of this aspect, though please try to give your all. But a wallpaper trying to follow these criteria is MUCH more likely to be accepted. The art & design forum contains further help on these topics, as well as links to tutorial sites.Also a detailed description of the creation process will help the moderator judging the effort you put into your wallpaper.

I am afraid that the whole calendar is made of wallpapers by mt and/or ap members
look here: http://www.animeshop.net/product_info.php?cPath=67&products_id=6964

Yes, as previously you still need to work on the extraction. Here is one of the possible tutorials: http://www.imanimetions.net/tutorial/tutorial.php?view=extract this one uses polygonal lasso tool you can also try searching for other tutorials for the extraction that use pen tool. There are lots and lots of tutorials for photoshop out there. just try and find them

First and formost. Work on the extraction (a process of cutting image from the original background). A good extraction is one where there are no artifacts left (no scattered lines, white pixels left and so on). When you do the proper extraction (one of the many possible tutorials for it: http://www.imanimetions.net/tutorial/tutorial.php?view=extract) work more on the scan's quality. Do not blur it that much. Try cleaning it. Then try to work on the whole composition and background. Generally putting a scan over the same scan but zoomed in is not what one would call walling. Hope this helps.

points to the proper thread: Complaints: deleted images, warnings, bans.

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Ok. I am not the one who deleted this wallpaper. But I can undestand why some moderator thought this wall is a bit too much. The girl is basically naked although all important parts are covered. But even if not for the "mature" reason it still fails the bacis quality requirements, thus it would still be deleted. For the quality part: this wallpaper is just a scan slapped on a plain background. One could also argue that the scan needs some cleaning, just as the bg needs more variety.

Shining tears wallpaper was rejected as it is just a scan stuck on a one color background. We expect our members to work on thei bg for wallpapers more. The Aria one is simply, as you said so in the comment, a scan not a wallpaper There is certain degree for quality then we expect in wallpaper submission, you can read about it in the FAQ (under Support section of MT) but just for the convenience of the discussion I will copy it here:

Quote by FAQHow is the quality and effort of my wallpapers evaluated?
» This is an important subject, as many wallpapers are deleted every day. There are minimum effort and quality requirements for submitted wallpaper because minitokyo wants to provide high quality content and in order to reduce the leeching, since leeches are generally scared by effort.
Actually, effort is more important than quality, especially for new members. These are four points that, if followed, will greatly increase the chances of your wallpapers staying on Minitokyo.
1) Extraction. The act of taking a character out of a scan to put in your wallpaper. Polygonal lasso or pen tool + at least 500% zoom is your friend if well used, while magic wand generally makes for worse wallpapers, and shows less effort
2) Cleaning. If the scan is grainy or contains other artifacts, cleaning the image is an important point
3) Layout. A decent composition is important. A thought out wallpapers is certainly more appealing and represent a higher level of quality/effort
4) Quality and effort in designing the background. This is a topic too vast to be covered here, but try to make quality backgrounds. Monocolor or other extremely simple or filter-whore backgrounds, while nice in some cases, usually do not lead the moderator to judge your wallpaper a high effort one.
Of course we're not expecting new members, nor old ones, to be perfect in every one of this aspect, though please try to give your all. But a wallpaper trying to follow these criteria is MUCH more likely to be accepted. The art & design forum contains further help on these topics, as well as links to tutorial sites.Also a detailed description of the creation process will help the moderator judging the effort you put into your wallpaper.

the new version is much better, but there is still a one thing worth improving before submitting. look at the girl's clothes, then after your extraction, you can see not only the border line over the whole character but also some brighter line above it, which looks like a remnant of the extraction. this is not good and should be deleted, becuase it diminishes the quality of the wall and prevents the character from smooth blending with the bg. other then that a certain improvement from the 1st version

sure. you can find it in kyroooo's gallery here: left side : white canvas by kyroooo

First question, what do you use for scan extraction? It is still far from being decent
Second, what is the purpose of those different phases of the moon? Where did you take them? Cause they look just like cut directly from a stock photo - without any modification. So those moons do not really fit the whole wallpaper, they awfully stand out and at the same time look terribly unrealistic even for an anime wallpaper. You should once again improve their extraction, perhaps modify them more, make them blend into the bg.
Moreover, I wanted to ask you where is the source of light in your wallpaper? There always is the light and thus there ought to be some shadows, but your character is perfectly shadowless.
And yet another thing, leaving all previous stuff aside, the character does not really look as though she would kneel on those clouds. Both are completely separate and thus do not go well together. I suggest you look for some tutorials on photoshop. You can find many of them, try going through some and improve this wallpaper

ekhem... ekhem...
I wanted to point out that when you are at the main page there are links to new submissions there >.> They are located under each user's options box (where you have your name, number of credits, notifications etc.) and through them you can access the newest submissions from: wallpapers, scans and indy art. The two things that changed are: the new submissions are no longer featured on the main page (meaning you cannot see their thumbnails there) and you no longer get all recent submissions in one place but they are in separate categories making it much less confusing (I saw thousands of comments on wallpapers like "nice scan" and on scans "nice wallpaper" >.>)

why it did not help? did the submit link not appear or do you have some error message when trying to submit?

Hi Wandering Youth,
I am not the one who deleted this wall, but in my opinion it might have been one of the following reasons for the deletion:
- the background is photo, we usually require members to manipulate the stocks they use with more then just one filter and generally prefer backgrounds created by the users themselves (and this wall looks like it was a combination of few easy photoshop techniques if that is the proper word >.>)

- there are some flaws in the extraction (see bottom part of the blue girl's hair) but it is nothing serious
- the trees shadows on the characters are really interesting ^^
- i also like the overall concept for the work
Just try working more on the bg itself, effort pays off , hope that helps a bit :]

Advantages:
1) watchlist and friendslist
this allows the one can have people on a watch list, that means that one gets notified of their submissions and one does not have to be friends to get notifications of the artists' submissions
this also allows for the friendslist to be a true friendslist, meaning people with whom one chats, communicates, discusses various topics here and outside mt
2) the layout
i like it more then previous
3) the organisation
as Haia already pointed out, everything is more ogranized then before, it requires getting used to but on a long run ought to prove better solution
4) new forum categories
this might help and give the grounds for new and interesting threads and discussion, we lacked those lately
5) it is faster already, I do not have stupid timeouts (and with bugs that are gonna be solved and are solved when we are actually talking about all this we can live for now)

and there are more :P but i am too sleepy to type them all g'night all

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But the "dark sides" as you call them are nothing compared to the improvements in MT3. I myself like MT3 better already. You are complaining about the level removal. But what was level really for? People were stupidly spamming just to get to level 10. Credits in this respect are more fair. If you want to download you must in a meaningful way participate in the life of the community. Simple and fair and hopefully will:
1) prevent leechers
2) increase mt's speed
You are also complaining about the restrictions on groups. But do you really have to be an administrator of more then 4 groups? Will you actually have time to participate in their life? On a regulary basis? I hardly think it is possible. I am an administrator of 4 and I hardly visit them at all. As a matter of fact I visit 2 groups on a regular basis for the rest I lack time. So, inmo this is not a valid argument against MT. And it really does not diminish or restrict one's level of participation, it only restricts how many groups can one person create.

Quote by dianasis not that Asahi .. i du not like the idea no friends no more groups..sad because i love to help with groups..and the sistem is so restricted now

Dianas, you are wrong. It is not like there will be no friends at all. Go under the control panel -> friends, check the boxes next to each and every of your friend you want to, and then update their status to "friend" from the right now "watch". There are groups still as well. The system is not restricted, it works in different way that is used to but it does not mean it is worse. It is different and all of us need to learn the new interface of MT3 and get familiar with the credit system. Just wait a bit and see how it will look like, when all of us get used to it and all the bugs will be fixed. We do not have unlimited bandwith as has been pointed out continuously by Keltosh and certain measure had to be taken to save it at least by a tiny little bit.

I just want to ask all of you. Stop complaining for now. It will not help out you nor administrators in any way. Try to browse MT3, see what great new features it has, how it looks like right now, learn its new organization and grouping. And try to welcome it in a more open minded way

I will tell you guys something, when I first browsed through MT3 today, I was also a little puzzled at first, but the more I surf it the more I start liking it. It is certainly an improvement and a change, hopefully for the better, but only when you guys start cooperating and appreciating its new features rather then sticking blindinly to the old mt2 that was not the best at all and had many faults as well.

Dear Yue-Hoshino, it has been said from the very begining that high quality items will be choosen over low/er quality items. It is normal. And it is not that unfair. Scans do not give one much credits nor level a person. Scans are uploaded here to share and provide a high quality walling material for wallers.