Graphics
Policy and Credits
As you've probably noticed, there are a handful or two of pictures linked in the pages, to go along with the ones in the gallery. It would be a nice gesture to credit me as editor for the ones I put together myself, if you wish to make use of them. The way to tell which those are is more or less to look for the seams.
See, the screencaps that are nice and squared up and not blurry, and the transparent gifs, are ones I got from elsewhere. The anime pics of Haruka and Michiru are from Castle In The Sky. The manga images are all from Lady Wren's site. The artbook image of the generals/Inners is from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Anime and Manga. My two favorite artbook images of Usagi and Mamoru are from the Mushy Sailor Moon Gallery. The LD covers of Season One and the first half of Two are from Glen-san's LaserDisc Image Scans Gallery. You will find links to those first three on the main discussion page, and the last on the Gallery page. Mushy Sailor Moon, unfortunately, seems to have gone down. The other artbook pictures, all the other LD covers, and the gifs, I got from that delightful probably-a-bootleg-but-who-cares CD loaned to me by one Kay Clopton (who is responsible for getting me hooked on Sailor Moon in the first place). The anime screen shot pictures that are a bit curved at the edges, or have curious lines running across them, or have slightly disjointed places are the ones I edited up.
I'm actually rather proud of how well those did turn out, given that they were made by taking digital camera pictures of the TV screen while the VCR was paused on the appropriate frame (tapes also provided by Kay). And since cameras perceive wide black bands moving through a paused screen, those images are made up of at least two and usually three or four layers, cropped and pasted together. The color values tended to be uneven and I had to do a lot of airbrushing; thus the occasional blurriness--airbrushing with a mouse is not the most precise of operations for a beginning editor. Nor did I have a tripod, so the edges don't always match up perfectly.
On the bright side, I can now highly recommend GIMP as image manipulation software. It's shareware, always a plus, and can do lots of cool stuff. It is a bit non-intuitive (and the help files haven't been written yet, since the programmers are still working out the bugs) so I also recommend getting someone who's used it to help you the first few times. Or there's always trial and error for the stout-hearted.
Oh, yes, and of course I edited the nav picture and the Altered pics in the Gallery; like them?
So there you go.
Last modified: 11/8/06
First Posted: 07/00
