Featured Artiste - Make Your Suggestion Here!

[RedRum]

The page list is good. But no one else finds it a little hard to see? How about increasing the size just a little bit.

And also in Firefox, the search on the top right looks like this

IE and Opera display it fine.

[gregsan]

RedRum wrote:

The page list is good. But no one else finds it a little hard to see? How about increasing the size just a little bit. And also in Firefox, the search on the top right looks like this IE and Opera display it fine.

it is a little small..

[Genma]

I've upped the size of the dropdown menu by a little. Same size as the search menu above now. Better?

And, I've fixed the top menu for Firefox. Blunder in the HTML code earlier.
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[Genma]

2 new features:

And, sorry yt, think we need a better pic for Yamada Takayuki.
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[Precious Bamboo]

Yay! Iijima Naoko is my favorite actress Thank you Genma and Eltinator

[Geezer]

Hot diggity!

Thanks for adding Miki, Genma.

And since I'm watching "Bus Stop" right now, I'm very pleased to see Naoko's picture go up as well.

Suddenly I have the urge to rewatch "Otousan"

[KouSeiya315]

Genma wrote:

Added a page number jump box for quicker navigation. Does it work?

This is godsent! Thanks Genma! <33

[IkematsuSosuke]

I love the jumping to pages feature

[RedRum]

Genma wrote:

I've upped the size of the dropdown menu by a little. Same size as the search menu above now. Better? And, I've fixed the top menu for Firefox. Blunder in the HTML code earlier.

Perfect! Thanks.

[yt]

Genma wrote:

2 new features: And, sorry yt, think we need a better pic for Yamada Takayuki.

here's the best ones I've got of close up face shots and the size you want!

take your pick, I prefer the first one.
Thank you

[arashinokoto]

yt, those pictures are great, but for a feature artiste picture genma need something at least 400x450 and of higher quality something like the pics you saw for feature artiste in the front page.. so i don't think the pics you provided are good enough..

this quality is good, but it needs to be bigger..

[MixxDreamer]

aww thanks for adding Iijima Naoko, i like her too.. but the site is going slow tonight.. err

arashi, thats a nice pic too, is he that dood from love3x? heheh he looks so cute when he smiles
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[groink]

arashinokoto wrote:

yt, those pictures are great, but for a feature artiste picture genma need something at least 400x450 and of higher quality something like the pics you saw for feature artiste in the front page.. so i don't think the pics you provided are good enough.. this quality is good, but it needs to be bigger..

Also, the actor or actress should be out of character and portraying themselves. Even if the image above was the right size, you should find one of him wearing plain clothes.

Also, the "Fire Boys" text is much too close to his face, and Genma cutting it out would make the face itself take up too much space. You have to consider the write-up in the image... There should be enough room to place the person's name, JDorama.com logo, and write-up.

And, the image should NEVER be a screenshot from a drama. The image should be a clean scan from hardcopy, such as a magazine or a brochure. Looking at all the other feature artistes images, the one thing they all have in common is that they were professionally taken in a studio, or a location set up to be a studio, such as the bathroom location used for Koyuki's photo.

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[arashinokoto]

MixxDreamer wrote:

arashi, thats a nice pic too, is he that dood from love3x? heheh he looks so cute when he smiles

yup that's him.. it's yt's pic though.. just informing that the particular quality is good for feature artiste.. ^^

anyway isn't it 3am over there? still online?

[juliana_phang]

found a pic on yamada takayuki, i did some editing n adjustment[although not as nice as genma's.. ..i'm weak in photoshop ]

n i guess u need to submit a short intro on him to genma

[yt]

juliana_phang wrote:

found a pic on yamada takayuki, i did some editing n adjustment[although not as nice as genma's.. ..i'm weak in photoshop ] n i guess u need to submit a short intro on him to genma

sorry don't like this one and the photo is quite outdated!!!

[yt]

the photo quality is ok?
I'm sure Gemma can cut it to the right size

some more to consider
the inset would be perfect size!

[groink]

Okay... I'm no fan of Yamada Takayuki, but it took all of less than five minutes to find some images that would fit Genma's bill. The trick basically is to search Google for the dude's name using his Japanese written name:

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With that, I came across the following example image:

From that, I took a 400x450 sample of the image, considering the three elements I talked about earlier (logo, write-up, family/first name):

Then, to see if it actually works, I used Photoshop and came up with the following example:

The best image to work with is one that is much larger than 400x450. That way, it gives Genma more flexibility to scale and crop the exact 400x450 chunk.

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[groink]

BTW, I created a template in Photoshop that helps me test images for the Featured Artist section. Feel free to use it for your personal use:

http://www.macgeek.org/album/jdorama/20040917/feature_template.psd

Save the file to your hard disk, then open using Adobe Photoshop (I used 7.0 to make this template). Here's what it looks like when used:

Enjoy!

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[yt]

this photo is also outdated and he doesn't his best!!!!!
how about using his calender photos, I'm sure they can be easily
expanded for the right size?