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All though the current cut is from 2016, this is the best I can make of it

The size of the face is still only around 140 pixels there, which means it needs to be upsized and become too blurry unfortunately

@Kariusen Decent first cuts, but they're not quite ready to be added yet. We have a tutorial thread here: https://sortitoutsi.net/content/360/guide-to-cutting-and-assorted-hints-tips-and-assistance

Also I recently made a video showing all the steps, if you have any questions feel free to ask 👍

@Mecruno Getting bigger images from transfermarkt:
1) Go to the player's/staff's profile, click the profile image to view a larger image, and open that in a new tab.
2) You'll get something like this URL: https://img.a.transfermarkt.technology/portrait/big/435648-1576766482.jpg?lm=1
3) Copy this part of the image URL, the rest doesn't matter. https://img.a.transfermarkt.technology/portrait/big/435648-1576766482.jpg?lm=1

4)  Then paste that part of the URL at the end of this URL: https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/portrait/originals/

Like so: https://tmssl.akamaized.net/images/portrait/originals/435648-1576766482.jpg

Now you can get the actual full-size image instead of one that's resized to 390px tall.

In these cases it's only a small difference, but sometimes the original will be 3 or 4 times as big 👍

Aaron Harper-Bailey - West Brom (734)

Harry Whitwell - West Brom (734)

@RT7 Do you think you can have these finished this weekend? Would be nice to have them in for the 2023.00 pack

@DimiZag They are still too small unfortunately, maybe higher resolution images are available somewhere else than the club site. If you ask in this thread maybe someone can help out: https://sortitoutsi.net/content/353/image-finder-thread-ask-for-an-image-to-be-found

@Belajariman These are still saved as draft, can you confirm the upload? 👍

No those are fine, since they don't have an active image yet and these sources are just about big enough for a 180x180 cut. If you'd like to upload more, there is a limit of 6 for individual requests, but you can also upload packs. There is no limit on those, and they can contain up to 50 images each 👍

https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/create-collection/1

@DimiZag These are too small to be improvements unfortunately, especially here where he has had a very recent and high quality cut already

Biggest transfer deals:

First game facing Thun was awful, being 2-0 up after 12 minutes and then still losing points is unacceptable.

During the one against PAOK we adapted a more conservative tactic, which worked pretty well. They surprised me with some big names in the squad, 2 Dutchies in there as well.

And then in the last one away at Ludogorets we got absolutely trashed.

Which gives this standing after 3 games. We now get Ludogorets and PAOK at home, if we get a result against either of those and then beat Thun in the final game, we should be able to progress to the next round. Big difference in how the games develop as opposed to the qualifying rounds though!

As expected the squad is really struggling with only having 2 or 3 days rest between games, and we are losing lots of points in the league. Twente and Ajax are up next.

Standings of the other Dutch teams:

It seems like that 5th coefficients spot is far away…

@AITOR GALLEGO Most of these La Liga sources are a bit dull, if you use ‘auto contrast' and add a bit of brightness, they will look better in-game 👍

It's now also possible to upload team fans backgrounds, in the usual 1920x1080 or 1600x900 resolutions.

Quick note that we aim to release the 2023.00 base pack somewhere next week, so if you want any images to be included in that, make sure to upload them in the coming days. Especially for the player backgrounds it would be nice to have them as up-to-date as possible for everyone to use at the start of their FM23 saves!

@dstyle87 The lightning and quality of these isn't too great, so I don't think they will be improvements. Btw if you want to request more than 6 images at once, you can do so as a pack: https://sortitoutsi.net/graphics/submissions/create-collection/1

There is no limit on how many packs you can upload, and they can contain up to 50 images each 👍

@Pepoperr Who is this?

He has his natural colour hair now https://www.gettyimages.ae/photos/willian-jose?family=editorial&assettype=image&phrase=willian%20jose&sort=newest

@AITOR GALLEGO I've checked all of the players, spending time on sources like this is not worth is as the current cut is basically identical (even in better quality)

This site lets you download pictures from Instagram accounts in their original resolution (only if the account is set to public of course)

https://imginn.com/

Profile pictures as well, all though that function seems to be broken most of the time

@11V22 please don't use an image enlarger, as it makes the face look somewhat unrealistic (that's why these weren't added in the first place)

It would become a 10-hour long video if they were to sum up everything that's missing in the game…

And then with CTRL + mouse wheel you can move left or right, but again that differs with programs

Depends on what program you use, on photopea if you press ALT + turn the mouse wheel, you can zoom in and out

@Szopen94 If an image appears on google it's good to double-check if that's actually the right person, in this case it's some random Ukranian player that was listed as recommended on his page https://fmdataba.com/20/p/228274/lorenzo-pantani/

@AITOR GALLEGO Please crop the face as close to the canvas as I did in the right one. 250x250 is not very big, so we want to make most use of the canvas space 👍

@Szopen94 Very good first cut 👏 The only thing I would recommend is to try out remove.bg to remove the background from the source image, it basically does all the work for you and delivers very clean results

After removing the background there is also often still some outline left around the hair/beard, we have some tutorials here that explain how to clean that up https://sortitoutsi.net/content/360/guide-to-cutting-and-assorted-hints-tips-and-assistance

@JasonLFC10 Please include a collar in all cuts

Sadly NEC lost out on the huge CL prize pot by losing on penalties

This is their EL group:

Ajax had automatically qualified as champions and won't be sad about this draw:

And Feyenoord will be playing against Lazio in the EL, just like in real life:

We will have to outperform ourselves together with these 3 teams, to make sure that The Netherlands takes that 5th spot in the coefficients ranking!

This went much smoother than I thought it would, we're into the group stage!

The teams we're drawn up against aren't very glamorous, an away trip to a club like Leicester or Napoli would have been more fun. On the other hand we have a very realistic chance of competing for the first 2 places.

Ludogorets - Finished 2nd in Bulgaria

PAOK - Finished 5th in Greece

Thun - Finished 6th in the Swiss second division (won the cup)

Bad news is that one of the key players is out for 3 months, meaning he will miss the whole group stage.

This is what the schedule looks like. We've only secured 4 points from the first 4 league games as the focus was fully on Europe. Because of the world cup everything is compressed, it will be interesting to see how the squad deals with having 2 games a week.

Another example: Feyenoord winning the Conference League and now having to play the Europa League play-off instead of getting a straight group stage ticket