Thread:Lattesmc/@comment-5956954-20170907005710/@comment-5956954-20170907020523

1. The raw would come from which place? Can I assume Crunchyroll?

2. My screenshots aren't inherently better because they are edited (so I'm basically cheating), removing what is original from the RAW for showcase purposes on the wiki simply because it really does make it better than the original. If I were to take a screenshot and not optimize it, it would be around the same quality as yours (unless your RAW was compressed due to unauthorized mirroring or was not a snapshot from a media player but rather a screen clip. Then it would be worse than mine).

Read on my methods

these two images and your recent 1080p shot demonstrate the differences between our screenshots in a nutshell. My screenshot's colours are more vibrant because I removed the white overwrite layer that makes the image more blurred and bland in colour. The blur remains despite the extra colours, so I sharpen the image carefully so it can become clearer and present more clarity.

I also attempt to employ "high dynamic Range" for HDR monitors, a leading-edge technological breakthrough associated with Ultra-HD Blu-ray, though I do not always do this because it might make the colour on normal monitors worse. I will not do it on this anime unless there is a very colourful scene because it's simple 2D animation. I'll have to wait for that.

All of this can be done in an editing program, though I cannot guarantee automatic processes can make the images like mine because I do these processes manually through Coral Paintshop. Afterwards, I save the image in PNG to retain all of the details (I do this for the original snapshot as well) so I can customize it again during the compression process, which is to reduce the percentage to 80% the original or lower, remove the image's metadata, create a ratio for resampling the chroma in the image, and to make sure the colors are correct. Then, I save the image in JPG to compress. Then I upload it to the wiki. So yeah. That's my process.

Overall, my screenshots are indeed a higher quality, but it was achieved with more than just a simple snapshot, so they're not inherently better and are just like yours (maybe). It's also why I am much slower than you in preparing uploads and personally would prefer you upload the images in whatever way you want so I can get to them later, which I will do with Episode 9 (you can then check the file history and make the comparisons yourself).