Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nintendo GameCube

Nintendo GameCube
Voting period ends on 28 Mar 2012 at 12:38:22 (UTC)
 * Reason:High resolution, nice pose and lighting
 * Articles in which this image appears:Nintendo GameCube +2
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Electronics
 * Creator:Evan-Amos


 * Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:38, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment What are the merits for using the PNG with transparent background rather than the JPG? Colin°Talk 22:35, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Just nominated this one because it's the one used in articles. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:05, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I think the JPEG version should be used as the PNG thumbnailer uses a less sophisticated algorithm that generates a blurrier result. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 12:11, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks terrible with a coloured infobox. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:18, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I disagree that it looks "terrible".
 * The PNG looks terrible anyway. So where's the win? You can make a JPEG that has the correct background colour if you want to. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 13:37, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The PNG looks poor if dropped on a darker background, because the game has only been crudely cut out rather than blended to transparent -- you get a white halo. This could be fixed by someone with good photoshop skills. It is good enough for the purpose on WP, though a PNG is bigger to download than a JPG. I see that PNG-transparent images have been created for many of the game articles. We haven't done this for any of the other many featured pictures set on a white background, many of which appear in info boxes. I don't think the way the image interacts with this month's colour scheme on the vector skin or some info box template should be our concern. I wouldn't want to encourage photographs as PNGs just because it blends nicely with a light grey info box. Colin°Talk 14:03, 20 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Jpg back in the article... I'm edit warring myself. Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:19, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Nicely executed product shot --Fir0002 02:58, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support JPG. My preference would be for the object to be clearly on a surface rather than floating in whitespace. But it illustrates the product nicely. Colin°Talk 09:02, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support per Fir0002. No reason not to feature. Clegs (talk) 11:16, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Per Fir0002 Dusty 777 16:44, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

--Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 20:20, 29 March 2012 (UTC)