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Introduction

Movie Backdrops (also referred to as Fan Art) is a full screen artwork used in movie frontends create a mood of the movie as an addition to the movie cover. The backdrops can be either an artwork created by material from the movie, such as press images, graphics and others, or it can be as simple as a screencap or part of a screencap in a place where it is able to create this mood of the movie.

Backdrops are of high quality, because they are created to be used in full screen, or near full screen environments. This means that there are certain rules to follow when contributing backdrops. Notice specifically that our moderator in the end have the final ruling weather or not a backdrop is of a high enough quality, and if it complies with the rules, or complies with the rules close enough, as there are without a doubt gray areas.

Backdrop Text

The backdrops may not contain text on the artwork, unless the text itself makes the artwork, or in situations where the text is part of a screencap from a movie. This means that there may not be artist names, copyrights texts, or movie titles on the backdrop.

The exceptions to this is hard to describe, therefore some examples is included below.

Resolution and Scaling

The resolution of a backdrop must be of 1920x1080 (1080P), or 1280x720 (720P) pixel resolution, which is specifically these resolutions. The system will itself assure that your contributed backdrop is of one of these resolutions.

This resolution requirement is there to ensure the quality of the backdrop, and it is therefore not intended that an image is scaled in any way to accomplish the resolutions - this means that it is in most cases not acceptable to simply upscale a lower resolution image. The exception to this is if there with older movies isen't enough high quality material available to create a backdrop in the required resolution, in which case the artist may choose to upscale, sharpen and improve lower quality material.

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