All The Tropes:How to Pick A Good Image: Difference between revisions

Speaking of TV Tropes, their version of this page as of the fork included the phrases "If an image has a little copyright stamp (©) on it, we can't use it" and "The same goes for watermarks of ownership". These statements are [[Artistic License: Law|Artistic License Law]] (of the type "'we didn't ''know'' it was copyrighted' is a legal defense"<ref>It isn't.</ref>) that bear no relation to actual copyright law. It is the opinion of All The Tropes that we have the same "fair dealing" and "fair use" rights that other encyclopedic wikis (such as Wikipedia) have to use limited excerpts from copyrighted works for the purpose of review and analysis, as long as we identify that we are using images under fair use. (This "encyclopedic" usage, by the way, is why we come down hard on people who add false information to the wiki - allowing one feeble joke is not worth us needing to delete tens of thousands of images.)

 

* '''Visual Aid''': Unlike Works, page images for trope pages are there to help explain the trope, not provide an example above the example line.

* '''Why are [[Comic Books]], [[Manga]], [[Newspaper Comics]], and [[Web Comic]]s so popular?''': Because the addition of [[Speech Bubble]]s allows the image to include [[Dialogue]] on top of visualizations, something which multimedia works lack. This, combined with a distinct lack of [[Motion Blur]], leans toward a dominance of these images.

* Sometimes a trope is too text- or plot-dependent for an image to work, and the better option is to just leave the page imageless than put an image that would confuse the reader even further. Don't fret, it happens.

 

* The most common picture for a works page is a title screen or box art. It's what most people will see when they look in the store for a copy, and images are fairly easy to come across.

* Official promotional art such as movie posters are common, including cast pictures. This is particularly common when the actual cover is a flat color and a logo or something similarly minimalist.

* Unlike many other types of work, [[Fan Fiction]], [[Web Comic|Web Comics]], and [[Web Original]] have relatively easy-to-access creators. If you want to know what they'd prefer, send them a simple email with links to both the site and the page in question. For instance, this was how the page images for ''[[xkcd]]'' and ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' were chosen.

 

* The most common picture for a works page is a photo (or painting or sketch) of the creator. This is relatively easy to find when the creator is a single person, but even large groups sometimes have promotional images of themselves available somewhere.