weeniehutjr - Comments

@dazzybeat This source image is from 2019 so won't be an improvement over the current cutout - try and find a more recent source 🙂

It's Nike 981 (nik_challengeIII in Bolid74's template pack) but with a colour print over two of the stripes 

@mons I've moved this cutout to the correct person's timeline.

@Alberto Ríos Rodríguez had submitted it to this Christian Neira's timeline instead, and although he noticed the mistake his comment didn't tag a moderator so it was missed. Alberto, be sure to tag @mons in your comment in the future to be sure it's seen 🙂

@chemali Your image is of Nabil Chemali, a water sanitation/hygeine development expert who has nothing to do with football.

This profile is of Nabil Chemali, a French football trainer who happens to share the same name.

If you're using Google Chrome (similar process for other browsers) you can right click on the image > “Inspect” or “Inspect element” to open the DevTools panel, then the image link will appear here.

@krissmed Are you sure this the correct person?

edit: The one in the most recent image is Joachim Knutset Solem, I believe this UID should be for Joakim Danielsen Solem

Joachim Knutset Solem is in the database here https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/browse/1/803135/timeline

Better source image from the club's facebook (Aldershot Town - UID 573)

@MattAesir If you're cutting any other Kazakh players, you can remove “_avatar” from the end of that image URL for a larger size, like this, which makes for a better quality cutout:

https://kff.kz/uploads/images/2022/05/26/628faf78ebd70.jpg

@mons That source is from February 2021 and brings us back to when Gattuso had 9 cutouts in a year 😅 - it would be better to either use this source (from his Valencia presentation) or wait until LaLiga's team photoshoots for a high quality source.

@Cruzeiro2003 Check the player's timeline before making a request - this is the same source as the 13.12 megapack cutout

@Furby Furby Can you please clarify who the cutouts you uploaded for this player and this player are of?

Bruno hasn't been in the game since FM15 and as mons said, Pedro hasn't been in the game since FM18, so it wouldn't really be sensible to add them to the megapacks. Are you able to give the players' full names or see if they have profiles in FM22 with different UIDs so we know who the players in question are?

edit: The same thing goes for Rodrigues who was last in FM17, Dodô who was last in FM15, Vitinho who was last in FM18 and Karlos Wagner who was last in FM18.

@Valentin Lentz Why did you AI Upscale the source image? The original image was perfectly large enough, there was no need to upscale it.

Regardless, the image is from November 2020, so it's from around the same time as the current megapack cutout, and the team uploaded a new image from this year on their website.

The edges on your cutout looked like this which I don't think are very good -  still noticeably jagged and a bit rough around his right ear - as well as having snow where the transparent pixels were duplicated. I found that just saving the image, opening it in Photoshop and exporting it again was enough to fix the problem P-Jo had.

@mons I'm not sure what happened with the version you uploaded, but it seems that by putting the image through remove.bg again it duplicated transparent pixels (maybe encoding messed up on the original, which is what P-Jo referenced with the thumbnail image having “ghosting” around the hair edges)

Better image quality

The source I rejected seems to be from 2011 (older than the current cutout) - the first source I uploaded is from 2019, the second is from 2021 but slightly worse quality

@ajmace_04 Could you find a source image where he is facing the camera instead of a side-profile image?

@sukaoleg123 Did you use an AI image upscaler? The details in the cutout look excessively smoothed.

The original image from Sheffield Wednesday's website is large enough not to need to be upscaled. But seeing as it's close to the start of the new season, it might be worth waiting a few weeks until the new team photos are released.

@IgordereissouzaSCCP🎩⚫⚪🇧🇷 This cutout is extremely blurry. Please don't upload cutouts like this one, especially when the player has a high quality current cutout without much change in his appearance.

@Richie Kimbumina 10  Just be patient, they'll be made sooner or later. You don't have to post images of teams like Man Utd's and Arsenal's kits because they're already on the kitmakers' to-do lists.

Also, posting edits/renders like the ones of Ronaldo don't help very much anyway, since they're just mockups of leaked information (especially the yellow away kit) and aren't necessarily representative of what the real kit will be.

Found a source from April when he joined Chongqing 🙂

@timmishit If you're requesting sources from Spanish clubs in the future, this guide will help you get larger images from their websites if they're using the “proyectoclubes” host, like Hércules CF are 🙂

In this case it looks like the original image was the “662x372a” size.

I've moved the old cutout to the correct person's timeline 👍

fyi @mons 

I think this image is the best available, unfortunately it's only large enough for 180px and from before he joined Bordeaux (2018-19 season)

@mons Some background wasn't removed properly

@11V22 If you're using an AI image upscaler (like Topaz, Remini, etc) on small source images, it would be better to create 180px cutouts rather than 250px - that way the lack of detail or unnatural-looking smoothness of the skin is less obvious.

It is (although if he stays with the team there will probably be another photoshoot in July) - feel free to upload it as a request to be cut using the “Upload image” button above:

@Cruzeiro2003 There's no need to submit duplicate images - the cutout will be added to the megapack in the next update 👍

The profile you commented on is for an old UID that hasn't been used since FM15.

As julkjulk linked to, he has a newer UID, and a megapack cutout from last August.

@mons I think that source (2018) is older than the current cutout (when he was on loan at Bermhamsted in winter 2019)