To add to what mons said, the face in the source image was already large enough to produce a 250px cutout, so there's no reason to need to upscale it.

#626468 Samuel

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By TiagoSeattle 27 March 2021 - 19:28 PM UTC

Where did you get that photo? I even looked on his facebook and I didn't think it was better

It's a photo from his facebook page, posted in January 2020. The quality isn't perfect but I think might be a better source than this one if its background is difficult to cut out.

#626444 Ethan Ross

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@derd24 This source is from summer 2018, so won't be an improvement over the more recent cutout from this season.

#626439 Juan Familia-Castillo

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By mons 27 March 2021 - 18:24 PM UTC

@FORCEMEAT TM, it would be a great source if it wasn't pre-cut with all the hair details blurred. I'm sure a better source can be found.

@FORCEMEAT TM As of five days ago, Castillo's hair was the same as in the current Chelsea cutout, which is already excellent quality so I don't think it would necessarily be an improvement anyway.

#626424 Juan Familia-Castillo

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@FORCEMEAT TM This source image is from summer 2019, less recent than the current cutout.

#626398 Rostyslav Voloshynovych

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@mons @cunex99 I think zigmmund has put the original source images from the club's website through remove.bg without cropping them first, so they're downscaled and lower resolution.

Here's the link to the team's squad page. The links on the right-hand side ("Детальніше") have larger images on the player's profile page.

#626392 Roman Serdiuk

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@zigmmund Did you use remove.bg to cut the original source images from the club's website? If so, you should crop the image to the area around the face before using remove.bg, as otherwise a large image is automatically resized down to 500*500px (or Height*Width=250,000px). Cropping the image to the area around the face first means that the face in the image cut by remove.bg will be larger.

Here's how to crop images first if you don't know how:

#625882 Fotis Zannis

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@nikolaosaek Your cutout is from a 2016 image - I've uploaded a much more recent source 🙂

FYI @mons

#625841 Jon Bell

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By mons 25 March 2021 - 12:41 PM UTC

Thanks for the heads-up. Which Joe Bell is this please? Should the current cut-out be assigned to another player?

Looks like 53184886 - was also in previous FMs until FM18 under this UID

#625734 Tutorials and guidelines for cutters

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By mons 24 March 2021 - 13:13 PM UTC

I'm not a big fan of pre-cut sources because they can, somewhat counterintuitively, take longer to cut properly.

Anyway, I cropped the source (attachment 1) and put that through remove.bg and saved it. The saved copy still had some snow, so I put it through remove.bg again and this time, it was much better. I cropped it, brightened it and resized it to 250x250 (attachment 2). Not much different to yours, truth be told…

@TiagoSeattle Sometimes when a source is precut, I find putting it on top of a white background and then using remove.bg to re-cut that image removes snow better.

#625323 Albin Ahlstrand

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@cunex99 This cutout is quite blurry compared to the source image, which shouldn't be happening - are you cropping the image to the area around the face before using remove.bg?

#625292 England - English Leagues Level 1-6 3D'2020/21 for FM20/21 Relink! (30/04/21)

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By GENOLREZ 22 March 2021 - 08:43 AM UTC

hey bro where are the Gk kits?

FM doesn't support custom goalkeeper kit textures, unfortunately.

#625290 Koko Araya

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By Diha Anfeu Nio Julaynda 22 March 2021 - 05:27 AM UTC

it is wrong guy, his name is Muhammad Supriadi not Koko Ari Araya

Just to clarify, do you mean the old cutout is Muhammad Supriadi (possibly this player?), and you've uploaded a correct cutout of Koko Ari Araya?

#625286 Azat Kuçkar

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Source from Hekimoğlu Trabzon's facebook page @nirvana06 - always worth looking on the clubs' social media pages if you can't find good sources on google images 🙂

#625127 Federico Guidi

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@StefTo87 Again, remember that all cutouts must include some of the collar. This video shows how to easily do so:
in italiano: Ancora una volta, ricorda che tutti i ritagli devono includere parte del colletto. Questo video mostra come farlo facilmente:

#625113 Pablo Risso

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@Fabri74 The face in this image is too small to be of any use for making a cutout. Please look for better quality, larger size images in the future. This thread might be helpful for tips on how to find better sources.

#625092 Arber Prifti

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@StefTo87 Remember that all cutouts must include some of the collar. This video shows how to easily do so:

#625087 Fakhreddine Ben Youssef

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By Ahmedamon 21 March 2021 - 10:07 AM UTC

Meant to label as game ready not source ^

What method did you use to make the cutout? The edges are jagged and have some white pixels. I recommend using remove.bg instead - here's a few tutorial videos to help you out.

How best to use remove.bg:

How to shift collars upwards:

Rotating sources:

#625045 Diego Calcaterra

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@Fabri74 A source image with the top of the head cut off isn't useful for making a cutout.

If you want to get started with cutting out images, read this thread for tutorials and advice 🙂

#625041 Michael Scheibenpflug

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This is a different person with the same name, who isn't in the FM database as far as I can tell.

Images of the correct Michael Scheibenpflug are here if you'd like to request one as a source to be cut @Богдан Пејановић: https://sortitoutsi.net/comments/get/607988

#624955 Opening old packs

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https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/collection/4197

Marked some sources in this pack as pending - where the person's appearance was still very similar (e.g. same hair/beard style) I left it marked as completed, particularly as not every source in the pack is large enough for a 250px cutout without slightly upscaling the face.

#624938 Manuel González Postigo

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By mons 20 March 2021 - 16:14 PM UTC

@weeniehutjr, given your superior knowledge on tweaking saturation, colour and other image adjustments, I wonder if you would be able to turn your hand to removing the weird blue reflection on our left - the green on our right I can sort out without any problems, but editing the blue just isn't coming out right…

Done 👍