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| | | Author: | alahaka  | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2018 02:15 | | Subject: | Minifig head graphics reduce visual info | | Viewed: | 106 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Already Exists | |
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| Hi,
I guess default photographs of Minifig Heads (specifically their expressions
and facial features) are being replaced with graphics.
I find the angled, turned-away graphics (example (a) below) notably less visually
informative than straight-on great photographs of a Minifig Head's expression
and facial features (example (b)).
Please retain good photographs as the default image for shoppers.
If a large effort is underway to create angled, turned-away, less clear heads,
I do not understand how this loss of immediate (i.e. default) visual presentation
data constitutes a site improvement. In addition to, for example beard/brow/cheek/glasses
alignment details, a straight-on photograph also informs the shopper of a Lego
paint scheme's older or newer production art quality.
Even if the great photographs are retained as alternates to the default graphics,
BrickLink administrators are adding more process steps to get to the best information
available, which is more time-consuming for users and illogical beyond uniformity.
I can obsess by the way, and love nice shiny rows of similar thingies, but not
if such uniformity is going to make any customer process more difficult.
Lastly the type of stud is no big deal for my uses, so I do not need a partial
top-down view. I suspect this is true for most shoppers.
Apologies if my overall image transition guess is mistaken.
Thanks for listening, Matthew
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| | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2018 05:57 | | Subject: | Re: Minifig head graphics reduce visual info | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| | Hi,
I guess default photographs of Minifig Heads (specifically their expressions
and facial features) are being replaced with graphics.
I find the angled, turned-away graphics (example (a) below) notably less visually
informative than straight-on great photographs of a Minifig Head's expression
and facial features (example (b)).
Please retain good photographs as the default image for shoppers.
If a large effort is underway to create angled, turned-away, less clear heads,
I do not understand how this loss of immediate (i.e. default) visual presentation
data constitutes a site improvement. In addition to, for example beard/brow/cheek/glasses
alignment details, a straight-on photograph also informs the shopper of a Lego
paint scheme's older or newer production art quality.
Even if the great photographs are retained as alternates to the default graphics,
BrickLink administrators are adding more process steps to get to the best information
available, which is more time-consuming for users and illogical beyond uniformity.
I can obsess by the way, and love nice shiny rows of similar thingies, but not
if such uniformity is going to make any customer process more difficult.
Lastly the type of stud is no big deal for my uses, so I do not need a partial
top-down view. I suspect this is true for most shoppers.
Apologies if my overall image transition guess is mistaken.
Thanks for listening, Matthew
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You can monitor new pictures coming into the catalog and see that there is no
effort going on to replace head pics with lower quality pics. While there is
an effort to replace pics of real pieces with renders, actual piece pics seem
to be preferred for minifig parts. Where you see renders on them it is because
the submitter did the easiest thing and pulled the pic from Lego.com. The catmins
accept that to get a piece in the catalog, but I often submit pics of real pieces
before long and they always replace the renders.
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| | | | | Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Apr 25, 2018 20:59 | | Subject: | Re: Minifig head graphics reduce visual info | | Viewed: | 53 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, matejo writes:
| | Hi,
I guess default photographs of Minifig Heads (specifically their expressions
and facial features) are being replaced with graphics.
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That is not the case. For a somewhat detailed expression of the current catalog
image policy, please see here:
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=87
As stated under Preferences:
"For decorated parts (both printed and stickered) photos are preferable to renders."
| | I find the angled, turned-away graphics (example (a) below) notably less visually
informative than straight-on great photographs of a Minifig Head's expression
and facial features (example (b)).
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Everyone is in agreement on that point. The rendered image below was contributed
in 2011 by the contributor of the original entry. If someone were to upload a
good photo of that head today, it would be replaced.
| | Please retain good photographs as the default image for shoppers.
If a large effort is underway to create angled, turned-away, less clear heads,
I do not understand how this loss of immediate (i.e. default) visual presentation
data constitutes a site improvement. In addition to, for example beard/brow/cheek/glasses
alignment details, a straight-on photograph also informs the shopper of a Lego
paint scheme's older or newer production art quality.
Even if the great photographs are retained as alternates to the default graphics,
BrickLink administrators are adding more process steps to get to the best information
available, which is more time-consuming for users and illogical beyond uniformity.
I can obsess by the way, and love nice shiny rows of similar thingies, but not
if such uniformity is going to make any customer process more difficult.
Lastly the type of stud is no big deal for my uses, so I do not need a partial
top-down view. I suspect this is true for most shoppers.
Apologies if my overall image transition guess is mistaken.
Thanks for listening, Matthew
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Admittedly there has not been much explanation of the large scale image project
that is underway. But that will change very soon.
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