GWLチュートリアル
概要 Overview
The Garrison Web Liaison (GWL) is the primary contact in a garrison for member Legion profile photos.
ギャリソン・ウェブ・リエゾン（GWL）は、リージョンプロフィール写真を扱う部隊の主要担当者である。
担当任務 Duties
Your primary duties are:
主要な担当任務は以下の通り：
- Obtaining your fellow Garrison members’ costume photographs
- Formatting the pictures for posting on their profile for 501st.com
- 部隊メンバーのコスチューム写真の取得
- 501st.com掲載用プロフィール写真の合成加工
必要なもの What You’ll Need
To accomplish this task, you’ll need a few things:
タスクを遂行するために、いくつか必要になります。
- Access to the MemberDB website on the Legion forums. This will allow you to access to the GWL Upload Tool.
- An e-mail account. It is highly recommend you create a new email account specific to your GWL duties to make collection of photos easier.
- Image processing program. Many use Photoshop, but there is also GIMP, Pixlr, and others.
- All of the layered .psd templates for use as framesets. The link to their location is in the memberDB.
- Member images. You will need at least one in full costume and one with bucket off , if applicable. You may receive these from the GML, or from the member directly. Please ask for the original high resolution files to be sent to you via email. Accepting them via Messenger or other messaging programs can often do strange things with compression and make things difficult.
- リージョンフォーラム内のMemberDBページへのアクセス権。GWLアップロードツール画面へのアクセスが出来るようになります。
- Eメールアドレス。写真を収集するGWL任務をより簡便に行うために新規アカウントを作成することを強く推奨します。
- 画像加工用ソフトウェア。多くのGWLはPhotoshopを使いますが、GIMP、Pixirなども使えます。
- レイヤー付きPSD形式のテンプレート画像がフレームセットとして使われています。格納先のリンクはMemberDBにあります。
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画像の合成加工 Formatting Images
Take the time to familiarize yourself with the various costume categories and be sure to use the appropriate frameset for the costume image you are formatting. When in doubt, send an e-mail to our Legion Membership Officer or post in the GWL Forum at 501st.com. In the case that a member has only provided a partially complete set of images (perhaps a photo in costume, but lacking a photo with helmet off), you may still format and upload the image(s) you have—some photos are better than no photos! A generic placeholder image will be used in the member profile until new photos are supplied.
Make sure the final images are named and formatted correctly (including making sure the final file size falls within the guidelines below). Files must be named after the following examples with a 4-digit TK number (please use zeroes if necessary such as tk0014):
- tk1138_thumb.gif (between 4Kb–10Kb)
- tk1138_head.jpg (between 10Kb–40Kb)
- tk1138_full.jpg (between 20Kb–50Kb)
NOTE: Although commonly referred to with capitalized letters, images should be uploaded with all lowercase letters:
- CORRECT: tk1138_full.jpg
- INCORRECT: TK1138_FULL.jpg
- INCORRECT: TK1138_full.jpg
- INCORRECT: Tk1138_Full.jpg
The “thumb” image should be a gif file and can be either a small version of the “full” image or a secondary masked/helmeted photo. The “head” image should be a jpg file of the unmasked/unhelmeted member’s face. The “full” image should be a jpg file of the member in full costume wearing mask/helmet if applicable.
It is recommended that gif files be saved with INTERLACE checked and dither set to a minimum (which is the lowest dither setting possible while still maintaining a smooth image, here’s one with too much dither). Also the number of colors in a thumb really never need be 256. For plain white Stormtroopers, try a setting of 32 or 64. In rare instances, 128 may be needed to provide a wide range of colors for some Sith Lords and Imperial Officers.
It is recommended that jpg files be saved with PROGRESSIVE SCAN checked and quality set between 40 and 60% compression, without blur. Be sure that there is no visible quality loss (artifacting). Do no use a low setting.
The biggest part of formatting a costume image is usually masking out the background. You will paste the original member-submitted image on a layer above the existing background but below the frame edge in the costume frameset, then use a selection tool (quick select, clipping path, lasso tool, magic wand) to select and remove the background (a layer mask is the preferred method) from the original member photo. If need be expand or contract the selection by about a pixel to remove any extra colour halo on the edges. Please do not alter the framesets, either by enlarging or shrinking. Always perform any touch up, color and curve or levels correction (helps a lot when you get those poorly lit gray or yellow Stormtoopers or if your original photo lacks contrast) on the original FULL resolution original image before resizing to fit the frameset. Feel free to add lightsaber, blaster, shadow and 3D effects, but please do so with good taste (we’re not creating a comic book here!).
