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Title Primary Image Suggestions
We are excited to announce that today we began our launch of primary image suggestions for title pages.
We are in the process of releasing this functionality incrementally with the plan to make this available to everyone within the next week or so.
From then onwards, if you navigate to an eligible* image in a title’s gallery and click ‘Edit Tags’, you will see a new ‘Primary Image’ option:
*What images are eligible for use as title primaries?
This functionality only appears for images of the preferred image type for the title type at hand:
o For Movies, TV Series and Video Games the image must be a poster.
o For TV Episodes the image must be a still frame.
This functionality will not appear if the existing primary image has been provided by an official studio partner.
What about the old process via ‘Report This’?
Some of you may be familiar with the old process, which is currently documented in our submission guide (https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/guide/images). We ask that contributors stop using that process going forwards. However, the submission guide will only show the old process until we’ve launched the new feature for all contributors, at which point we will switch it to the new guidelines.
Many thanks,
Mike
We are in the process of releasing this functionality incrementally with the plan to make this available to everyone within the next week or so.
From then onwards, if you navigate to an eligible* image in a title’s gallery and click ‘Edit Tags’, you will see a new ‘Primary Image’ option:
*What images are eligible for use as title primaries?
This functionality only appears for images of the preferred image type for the title type at hand:
o For Movies, TV Series and Video Games the image must be a poster.
o For TV Episodes the image must be a still frame.
This functionality will not appear if the existing primary image has been provided by an official studio partner.
What about the old process via ‘Report This’?
Some of you may be familiar with the old process, which is currently documented in our submission guide (https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/guide/images). We ask that contributors stop using that process going forwards. However, the submission guide will only show the old process until we’ve launched the new feature for all contributors, at which point we will switch it to the new guidelines.
Many thanks,
Mike
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mike
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We no longer specify that primary images should be the original theatrical poster. Please see: https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/guide/images#titles
If an official studio partner has elected a certain image as the primary, then it should nearly always remain so. If you do identify an image which you believe is in such violation of our guidelines that it should be changed, then you can always let us know via Help Desk.
Many thanks
Mike
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Dibyayan_Chakravorty
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Thank you for the announcement.
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vvp_14
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What if there is no poster in the gallery and you still want to change the primary image? There are thousands of titles that do not have the luxury of having a poster and are lucky to have an image or two. A lot of times it's just not meant to be a primary - like a landscape and you want to change it for something at leadt better framed. What happens then?
Thnk you
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mike
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In those cases the answer is to upload a poster first. I'd be interested to see any examples you have where that is not possible?
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vvp_14
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Here's just one example of thousands of cases where a poster does not exist (and I mean not only in IMDb - anywhere): tt1956682. That is often the case with foreign films, early films, TV shows and films released on video. In this particular case the data managers made a landscape still shot a primary image where there is a DVD cover artwork in photos section of that title that is portrait orientation and clearly is a much better choice for the primary image.
What I was trying to ask is will the "report bad quality image" process to change the primary image still be available in order to change the primary image if there is no poster image?
Thanks
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https://contribute.imdb.com/help/2019...
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