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@Ethanos1273 For sources from the Chelsea website, remove this part of the URL to get the full size image:
https://img.chelseafc.com/image/upload/f_auto,h_860,q_50/editorial/people/first-team/2023-24/Ugochukwu_profile_avatar_23-24-removebg.png
Like so:
https://img.chelseafc.com/image/upload/editorial/people/first-team/2023-24/Ugochukwu_profile_avatar_23-24-removebg.png

Happened here with this pack and this pack too 

Some kits are showing the same active kit twice, e.g.: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/browse/2/10767/timeline#submission_2661441
 

Should this pack just be set to archived (or rejected?) for now to at least make the actual 22/23 kits set as active?

Then unfortunately, we won't be able to update his cutout image. We rely on decent quality source images being available to make cutouts from, and ultimately if there are only very small or very old source images then any cutout made from them won't be improvements.

This source image is the only one I was able to find, but it's much too small. However, if you'd like to use it anyway for your own FM savegames, this video shows how to do so using Photopea.com (a free web-based Photoshop alternative) and remove.bg:

@Man Utd save This source looks almost completely identical to the existing, high quality cutout, and it's not large enough to create a 250px size cutout from (the face needs to be large enough to fill the canvas without upscaling), so this won't be an improvement.

Feel free to request a more recent source image for Lykouresis 👍

You'll have to download a custom database, yes. He doesn't appear in the default FM23 database as he was under 16 at the cutoff time (31 August if I remember right - this cutoff is for minor protection reasons and is an SI decision). I believe he is included in the sortitoutsi Data Update but I can't check for sure.

I've searched in the FM23 Editor, she appears in all database versions for me (23.00, 23.03 and 23.04). However she is a free agent in FM23 and not contracted to any club, which might explain why she doesn't appear in your savegame - depending on how far you've advanced through the game she may have retired due to being without a club for a prolonged period of time, which is a game mechanic to trim excess players/staff so you don't end up with thousands of them without clubs slowing down the game.

She shows up in the site's search if you include the hyphen in her first name

@benjamin al muhammed  This image isn't large enough to produce a high quality cutout. The face is too small for the 250px cutout size so it won't be an improvement over the current one.

You can right click on the image on the website and click “Inspect” or “Inspect Element” and open the DevTools screen to get the image link

Like so: https://spartak.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstorage.yandexcloud.net%2Fspmedia%2Fapptemplate%2Fdirectories%2F8b0e30a3-bcfc-4e28-9b95-2f5073466b7c.png&w=3840&q=75

And just change the “q=75” at the end of the URL to “q=100” to get a slightly better quality/less compressed version

@CD11 The sources from the Premier League website aren't large enough to produce good quality cutouts because the faces are too small in the images.

You're having to upscale the image to fit the 250px canvas making the cutout really blurry, which isn't an improvement.

I agree that the existing cutout could be improved upon, but unfortunately the original source image for your cutout is just too blurry.

I found a more recent source image from his current club Arsenal de Sarandí (looking at the player's social media, he has blonde hair now 😄), I'll post it as a source request.

@Snipe2irt Sorry but I don't see the point in making cutouts like this. It might be a more recent source than the existing cutout, but only by a matter of months, and it's a lot blurrier. The player's appearance hasn't changed since the previous cutout either.

By uploading cutouts like these, all you're doing is making more work for mons (and any other cutout section mods) who have to take the time to compare the cuts and decide whether or not to include them in future megapack updates.

@mons I can't find any correct images of Peter Kaiser unfortunately (there is this photo of Nordsjaelland's U19 team that he's listed on the roster for, but I have no clue who is who in the photo).

@mons current cutout is of the wrong person as pointed out here. Should be replaced with the old cutout instead.

@mons current cutout is Alex Thomas

It looks like it was from the player's profile on Sorarebase. You can get larger image sizes using this trick.

@mons Current cutout belongs to Arslan Bekberdinov

The only photos of Kurmanbek Nurlanbekov I was able to find are this from circa January 2022 (on right) and this from October 2019 when he would've been 15 years old unfortunately.

@mons current MP cutout is this Matheus Dias (2000155265)

The first issue is fixed for me 👍

As for scrollbars, I can hide them by adding “overflow:hidden” (and putting “!important!” at the end just to be sure, but not necessary) on this string. Not sure if that works as a solution?

Perhaps on the club's timeline page adding tabs for “2D SS Kits” and “3D Kits” (and perhaps “2D FC12 Kits” etc in the future if their community wants to partake, and “2D Standard Kits” as well) so that there's some separation while still keeping everything navigable?

Quick mockup in Photoshop to illustrate what I mean (the tab buttons don't have to be placed exactly there of course!) - I'm picturing that clicking the tabs would stay on the same page but just fade transition between them.

One other thing is that when downloading the kits, they all have the same filename which is the club's UID. Could it be changed to something like “UID_home.png” or “clubname_home.png” instead?

I second adding bolid as a staff member if he's interested at all in doing so. Although I fear that it might lead to him being inundated with more “can you make this English team's kits despite you already working on the whole league system” requests 😅

@Footygamer When hovering over the Careers/Data Update/FMTV/etc dropdown at the top, the current forum thread page is being shown on top of it.

Also there's the locked scrollbar being shown on the dropdown which I think shouldn't be there.

@LFCYNWA This cutout is really pixellated because it was from a low quality source, unfortunately. I think it would be better to use a source image like this one from last year or this one from March 2021 instead. In fact, I think the second source I linked is more recent than the one you used which seems to be from 2020.

@Snipe2irt This was the 2022.13 Megapack Cutout

Unfortunately that's too small to be useful, but I found another image on his current club's instagram page

Can you post the original source image?

In cases where the collar is too low in the image to include while also cropping close to the chin, this tutorial shows how to move it upwards:

Or if the source image doesn't have a collar at all, you can use this method to create one:

Thanks for pointing this out! Do you know who the current megapack cutout is of? I think it's Svenn Ove Gjøringbø (based on this and this Facebook posts) but I'm not sure. If possible, do you think you could find a more recent photo of Tor Håkon Sveen as well, since the correct photo of him is quite old?

Finally, if you spot any mistakes like this in the megapack in the future, please tag @mons to be sure he notices the comment, as the forum moves quite quickly and a comment could be lost otherwise 🙂