Board Thread:Services and Contests/@comment-1824169-20160102034902/@comment-4489342-20160204222807

ChromastoneandTabby wrote: TheThreeEds21 wrote: Boy, did this service die.

Die? Not quite. Become incredibly incredibly sick of people throwing garbage-quality pics at it and expecting something good-looking and quickly-produced out of it? Oh, so much.

Let's take a look at these requests, for instance. The Heatblast request is perfectly fine, took me like 4-5 minutes, tops. The Big Chill requests, on the other hand, were awful to work with.

See, promo art like Heatblast's is usually of a higher quality thanks to coming from an official source, and is therefore much easier to work with. When people hand me pictures from episodes, on the other hand, their only source is apparently low-quality pirates of said episodes, which results in the pictures having compression up the butt.

When a picture has a lot of compression like this, it makes it nearly impossible for any photo editor to properly register colors and lines, as the compression makes things rectangular and blurry. That's why your Freezeghost request turned out so messy. (And it still looks better than the last Freezeghost request I got for that picture...)

So, in conclusion, the service isn't dead, it's just taking a while to get through all this garbage people keep throwing at me. Ah, it makes sense now. I'll be sure to use non-garbage pics next time.