Topic on Forum:Page Images

Unsurprisingly this picture suggestion http://shiniez.deviantart.com/art/dominating-aint-easy-281122293 is NSFW. Even so it might be useable with some cropping.

The might is because:

1. Even if we crop out the nudity, I am not sure if the words (e.i. the important part) would count as pornographic.
2. the picture is huge, and I am not sure if resizing (and if necessary further cropping) can fix that while still leaving it usable.
3. We probably need to get the illustrator/author's permission.

Personally I think the top panel isn't important enough for our purposes for the amount of space it takes, so I think that we should crop that out or use a thumbnail that effectively crops it out (if we can do that).

In the interests of playing it safe, I'd look for another image, this one would require too much editing to be usable and coherent.

I might be willing to toy around on my own anyways if the words are okay (which based on your response, I am assume they aren't).

It's not the words, the image itself is a bit too NSFW to be suitable.

The center of the bottom panel is people in clothing with thought bubbles. It would be easy to crop out the nudity, which is towards the sides of the bottom panel while still keeping the words (I've already done it). The top panel isn't that important, some people might consider that NSFW and it takes a lot of space anyways, so that can be cropped out too. After that I think by far the most dirty thing that is left (aside from the words) is the bit (I assume that's what it's called anyways) in the thought bubble towards the right. You see a little bit of head hair and partly see an arm and barley see what might be a hand that might be bound to it, but i think at that point those parts of the image no longer remotely porn and if the readers thinks of a NSFW image, I think that is on them. And if the reader knows what the full picture looks like, the reader is probably okay with seeing NSFW images because seeing the image from the original source requires an account with the user claiming to be 18 or older and the "Mature Content Filter" off. The words in the thought bubbles are the only thing I find possibly objectionable on NSFW grounds (after the aforementioned cropping of course).

I suspect our difference in opinion is because I am looking at the picture as made of components which are "SFW", "NSFW", or "possibly NSFW" (because I intend to remove the parts that are not okay and see if whats left is still useable) and you might be looking at it as a whole (perhaps your main goal (probably because its part of your duties), is trying to determine if it is safe to use). And that there might be some bad synergy that makes otherwise SFW components be to NSFW when put together, that I am not directly picking up on (maybe because I don't want to). Other possibilities are we disagree on which components are NSFW or possibly NSFW, you haven't seen a version cropped the way I cropped mine, and/or some other reason that probably hasn't occurred to me.

Show me a cropped version (make an imgur link or something similar), and we'll see if it's okay.

Deviantart's policy is people aren't supposed to redistribute artists work unless that person does it by linking the page or has the artist's permission. I think posting a cropped version of imgur is a breach of this. I think it is also a breach of imgur's policy. I decided to be a stickler for rules and ask Shiniez a while ago. (s)he still hasn't responded. I don't want to pester Shiniez, so I am hesitant to try again. I have terrible social skills so advice on how to communicate to artists in a fashion that they will likely reply, favorably, would be appreciated (please put this advice on a discussion on my user discussion page, and if there is no appropriate discussion for it, make one).

Simply asking permission to use the picture and why is enough, and if you don't get permission, simply using another picture is fine.

Honestly, I think it would be easier to just look for alternative images at this point.

I didn't explain the reason, also I try to keep my eyes open for potential page images (but I never go through pictures specifically looking for a picture).