The best way to submit pictures is to create a topic on this "contributions" section of the forum, with the movie title as topic title.
For that, use the "new topic" link on the topic list, or click the following link: http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_newtopic-1.html

If possible, it is easier for us if you include the IMCDb link of the movie, or the IMDB link if the movie is not yet on IMCDb.

To submit pictures, there are several possibilities:

1. create a zip file containing your pictures and send it to " contrib @ imcdb.org " and notify in your message that you sent the file by e-mail (put in the e-mail subject the same title as your topic).
2. create a zip file that you host on your own server and paste the link in your message
3. use www.imageshack.us to upload your pictures, then paste in your message the link called "thumbnail for forums (1)" to make a miniature image appear in your topic.

The 1st and 2nd solutions are probably the fastest for you and for us when there are lots of pictures. The 3rd one is easier for a very small number of pictures.

If you do not want to register to be able to post on the forum, you can simply send the files by e-mail. But the forum is useful to discuss and have a faster reply if you ask a question at the same time, as not all admins check what arrives on the mailbox.

Note for other admins: if you would like to process pictures sent to this e-mail address, contact me to get the password

About pictures compression/encoding:

Recommended format is JPEG.

If possible, remove black borders and check that aspect ratio is correct (i.e. that height & width are correct so that wheels are round for a car seen from the side).
Ratio (width/height) usually have the following values:
1.33 = standard 4:3 picture (TV-show, very old movies, series, ...)
1.66 = some more recent series
1.85 = lots of widescreen movies
2.35 = most recent movies that are made for an even larger screen.

Usually on widescreen DVD the picture is stored with a 16/9 ratio: that gives 1.77, which correspond to the picture ratio with the black borders. So an alternative system is to resize to 1.77 ratio and cut the borders after that.

In the case that the picture is ready to use (i.e. no borders & correct ratio) here are the limitations of the site: 720 pixels wide, and 80 KB.
Please note that the 80 KB is a limit and not a recommended size. Usually a widescreen DVD-quality picture should be around 40-50 KB.
Smaller files are around 30-40 KB, and can fall around 15 KB for small VideoCD-size pictures.

In most of the image programs, this correspond to 75-80% quality (or 20-25% compression).

Please also note that it is better to keep the height below 500 pixels (though that it is not a fixed limit), to not have too big images. Usual widescreen images meet that criteria, but for 4:3 pictures this means that the width falls around 650 pixels (e.g. 640x480 or 662x496).

If your pictures do not have the right width/height ratio or still have the black borders and that you can't correct that, then it is better to not compress it too much, so there will not be too much quality loose when we process it.
If you do not have a program to resize/compress pictures, I recommend to get XnView.

If you are unsure of which setting to use and if your pictures are correct, do not hesitate to post a test pic so we can give you info for the next ones.

Maybe it's also a good idea to give te stars in the filename?

So: 4_Cadillac.jpg or 3_snapshotxxxx.jpg

Yes, the more explicit possible names are better.

Or as weasel1984 does it, first make a directory structure with 1 star, 2 star-maps etc. Then zip the main directory.

For people that like to add Music Video's, please also list the release date of the video!

For admin's nice tool to reuse pictures from imageshack (or other) in the comments:
You can easily get thumbnails of non-thumbail pictures using
http://www.imcdb.org/get_thumbs.php

Note that for heavy PNG pictures it is better to not reuse these images, but to convert to JPEG & reupload.

I think it would be a good idea to limit the ammount of contributions/pictures sent in one go (for example 4 or 5 pics in one mail)
I'm not saying for contributors to not send more ..but to keep the pictures in smaller batches/lots.
I say this because I think it would make it much easier for any admins trying to help out with contributions to add to the main site.
In example:- I've had some free time some nights and have transferred some pics from here to the main site, but when coming across contributions of 10,15,20+ pictures it's off-putting (too much to do in one go.!)and not worth doing a couple of pics and then leaving the rest for antp to do.!
It would help all of us if there was a limit (antp- maybe you could add a message to your introduction on 'how to contribute' at the top.?)
Hopefully help us to help you.!

This could be a solution, though 4/5 is maybe too few, I'd say around 10.
But on the other hand I am not sure that having more "contributions" to process is a good idea, even if they are smaller. It makes the "queue list" more difficult to manage.
If you think to the "Alarm für Cobra" topic with lots of pictures, the problem was not the number of pictures but the fact that they had to be resized, which takes time.

Someone is spammin this topic, I have removed 10 unwanted messages...

I have closed this topic now, but any admin can open it when necassary.

Actually I kept this one open as I prefer to clean spam from this topic rather than seeing other contributions topics all the time reappear because a spammer posted in an old topic...

OK, I will just remove the spam message when I see one...

I removed about 5 aswell...

Antoine, pourrais-tu faire quelque chose pour éviter les spams comme ceux ci-dessus. J'en efface régulièrement une demi-douzaine par jour. Essentiellement sur ce topic (je pense que c'est le mot submit qui les attire), mais aussi quelques fois sur d'autres.
Merci.

À part obliger les gens à s'inscrire pour pouvoir poster, non Et pour des constributions c'est plus pratique que ce soit anonyme...


Probablement parce que c'est le premier de la liste

Removed about 20 spam messages in the last few days. What if we open a new topic, copy the info from here and get it listed on top. The webpage will be different and they will not be able to spam it so soon?

I think that this spam is done manually. As this forum system is not very well known and not widespread (unlike phpbb and others) I doubt that people would do bots for posting spam on it.

i guess there's no way to block by IP address..since they're always different, right?

here are the latest:
67.184.163.129
64.86.63.93
83.14.3.50
200.152.200.75
200.220.206.127
200.117.49.21
200.152.200.75
207.232.25.34 liverhgold

i'm sure we'll have a 100 more by the end of the day

Yes, I blocked some because sometimes twice the same was used, but when I got a list of 30+ addresses, I removed them because it seems quite useless.
Only solution would be to allow only registered users like on the other sections, but it is annoying for people that do not want to register or have problems to login...

There is a unimog 404 used in the movie "Trojan Cow". The part was essential.