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#792738 Khairy Abdeen
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By mons 25 August 2024 - 15:25 PM UTC 

@laoken, images like this aren't good enough to be in 250x250, should be in 180x180 👍

 

Sometimes I always hesitate about whether it should be an 180✖️180haha….

#792735 Mohammed Al-Nemis
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By mons 25 August 2024 - 15:14 PM UTC 

I've rejected the wrong images - hope that's correct.

 

It is correct! Thank you very much! 

#792729 Mohammed Al-Nemis
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Wrong picture uploaded, I am very sorry about that. The first one is the correct photo.

#792268 Dawoud Radaida
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duplicate of 2000115022

#792213 Islam Zoughair
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Islam Zoughair 2000027866 and 2000300060 Islam Sogair are duplicates.

#792212 Ahmed Khalifa
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New Duplicate found: 2000028380 Ahmad Khalifa) and 2000103357 (Ahmad Khalifa) are duplicates.

#792211 Ahmad Khalifa
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New Duplicate found: 2000028380 Ahmad Khalifa) and 2000103357 (Ahmad Khalifa) are duplicates.

#792210 Abdullah Ewaisat
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Is a duplicate of 2000267548

#792200 Basil Weradat
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So far this one is the clearest I can get, yet cannot get a good cut from this source since there's a hand on player's shoulder( The plyaer is the one in the middle)

#792168 Hussam Ziyadeh
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Having difficulties make a good cut because the snows on the hair.

#791662 Maen Obaid
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Is a duplicate of Maan Jamal and I have reported this to SI.

#791585 Mahdi Assi
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Just uploaded two of his more recent photos, and the newest one is also the most blurry one, I am not sure which one is better.

#791290 Li Ming-wei
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I believe among the three I have uploaded this one is the best one, although its resolution is not as good as the previous, the player was somehow able to look at the camera with his jersey.

#791288 Li Ming-wei
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I would prefer using this one instead of the last one that I have updated, since the last photo was in fact a selfie…

#791283 Tutorials and guidelines for cutters
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I found a couple of pictures of a Taiwanese goalkeeper and I am not sure which one shoud be the best one.
I would also like to know a bit about the priotiy of chosing photos when an offcial profile photo is not available for players ( coaches, refugees etc.)
 

#791282 Mohammed Hamadeh
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By mons 11 August 2024 - 20:32 PM UTC 

Bit of snow in the hair, keep an eye out for it @laoken 😉

 

Always better when darker images are brightened a tad too 😉

 

Gotcha!

#791202 Hesham Al-Salehi
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A duplicate of a similar player in Al-Sawaharah.

#791192 Ahmed Afaneh
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By mons 11 August 2024 - 06:16 AM UTC 

Can I suggest that you also post these in the data issues section of the SI official forums so that any duplicates you spot are removed in FM25?

 

Sure but I was wrong about my previous comment, I was able to find a photo of this guy. However, I do have some other things to report, do you know how to reflect those in the SI official forums?

#791121 Ahmed Afaneh
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He and Daniel Afaneh is exactly the same person.

#790955 Abed Yassin
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By mons 09 August 2024 - 06:44 AM UTC 

@laoken, please avoid using AI image enhancing tools.

Sorry, this is an image I made long time ago, I thought I didnt use the ai enhance tool.

 

#790923 Mohammed Ashour
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Not sure if this is clear enough for a  250 250 photo…

Also, according to my research this guy is 36 year old indeed, but he is 23 during the 2011-12 season, which was the last season he played in the game history.

#790626 Image finder thread - assistance in finding a source image
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Well, I also have two players here that I am having trouble finding a picture for. 

Both are Palestinian players with a Palestinian nationality.

First one is Mohammed Ashour  23192305 who playes for Al-Birah, which is a soccer club that namely belongs to a lower league of Palestine, but is a actually the club who joins the Westbank Premier League. After carefully searched for his name, I found that the age does not fit the game stats, unless the stats itself is highly outdated.

The second one is Mohammad Taha 20001641321, who played for Al-Wasl UAE(Possibly U-19 or U-17) team during 20-21. But I never could find a picture of him.

I am not a Arab nor do my Arabic is well enough to support me finding those two players, please help me with that.


 

#790509 Tutorials and guidelines for cutters
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Is this picture okay or there is too much snow on hairs?  I kept the background black on purpose, so you guys could see it clearly.

(Not sure if that counts as snow)

#790494 Tutorials and guidelines for cutters
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Here are another set of pictures that I am not sure which one is better.  Both of them is relatively clear, but one of them is from 10 years ago, and another one is with a cap…

 

#790491 Tutorials and guidelines for cutters
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By mons 04 August 2024 - 18:17 PM UTC 

It'd be good to have the original sources, because it helps us to understand if the eventual cut is actually any good. Also, unless I'm mistaken, I suspect you've used an AI image enlarger.

 

As a rule of thumb, using an AI image enlarger just “guesses” what certain pixels should look like when you make the image larger, and the result looks blurry/out of focus on certain details, with unrealistically smoothened skin, and unnatural looking hair/beard/eye/teeth details.

 

#790481 Tutorials and guidelines for cutters
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Selected two pictures of one player, and cutted them.
Not sure which one is better.

 

#790464 Moatasem Bazbaz
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By mons 04 August 2024 - 13:38 PM UTC 

@laoken, I'm not sure what technique it is that you're doing for cutting, but a lot of these cuts from low-quality sources have artifacts showing, such as in this cut, or parts of the background bleeding into the cut, such as the one I'm commenting on.

 

I'll fix what I can from these cuts (FAO @RT7), but it's up to you to make sure the cuts that you upload are of the best possible quality. It's clear the sources you're using aren't the best, due to the obscure nature of their subjects, but their cuts should nonetheless be as good as their source allows, which hasn't been the case for a lot of your cuts.

 

Apart from uploading the eventual cut in 180x180, please use the technique demonstrated in the below videos to make sure the background is removed in a smooth and realistic manner. I would recommend using remove.bg, which is a free online tool which removes the background to an excellent standard, for free and almost instantly.

 

Here's a couple of videos on how to use it, one when combined with Photoshop and another using photopea.com, which is a free online app so close to Photoshop that it has the same shortcuts, layout and icons.

 

If you don't have Photoshop, photopea.com is the tool I would recommend to use to tweak the draft cut produced by remove.bg. It's more powerful and versatile than GIMP and other similar tools.

 

 

I use photopea and removebg for every of my photos. However sometimes I am just too careless to check some of them just like this one I have accidentally left some artifact on it.  In fact many of my photos originally have artifacts and snows and I try my best to remove them. I have already try my best to make those photos eligible. For any pictures that I might have uploaded in a bad quality, please let me know and I try my best to improve it.

 

#790463 Sameh Alwan
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By mons 04 August 2024 - 13:34 PM UTC 

@laoken, in cases like this where the source is small or of very low quality, then the eventual cut should be in 180x180.

 

Thanks for reminding, have uploaded a new one with a better source.

#790444 Arafat Sabeeh
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Dude has a super long bear….

So I have edited the photo.

#790411 Mohammad Khaled Ewaisat
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This player and Mohammed Uwesat are literally the same player, so I will simply upload two different picture of same person again.