Hodgepodge here. Since I go through about half the submissions to this site, I'd like to share a few things you can do to make my life easier, and get your art up faster:

1: Check the file size of your fanart
Look, how hard can it be? In windows, you right-click on the file, and select Properties. Then you look at where it says "Size:". There'll be a number in parenthesis. If you have more than five digits, you're in trouble. (Wallpaper is an exception) The best case is that you'll get an email from me telling you to resubmit because I liked the art. I'll still delete the original.
Fixing this: Most likely, your scanner scans at some obscene resolution. On the web, everything over 72 pixels/inch is worthless. Any decent image manipulation program will have ways to tinker with the resolution. Drop it to 72 for best results.

2: Check the dimensions of your fanart
Crop your images! Shrink em if you can't crop them. Not hard. If I have to scroll all over the place just to see the whole thing, I'll be annoyed. And, in order to save everyone else annoyance, I'll just delete it. In case anyone wonders, I'm running at 1024x768. Wallpaper, again, is an exception. However, they better conform to actual wallpaper dimensions.

3: Know what a Thumbnail is.
Thumbnails are small versions of images that give the viewer some idea of what the art looks like before actually clicking on the link. It's what you'll see on the category page above the short title of images. A copy of the full image is NOT a thumbnail, and I'll reject these too.

4: Try to find a webhost that allows off-site linking
The script we're running tries to download submitted images into a local database. Unfortunately, many of the free providers do funny things with referrer tags. While the script tries to compensate for that, sometimes it can't. As a side note, the script does allow ftp entries in the form of:

5: avoid using underscores in the host name
This really chokes up the oop-ack server, since it's supposed to be illegal to have underscores in host names now. Don't do it. This seems to be most common on tripod accounts. In this case, instead of [yourname].tripod.com, please use members.tripod.com/~[yourname]

6: Leave the art up for a while
The script doesn't download a local copy until someone approves the image. If I can't see it, I can't approve it, and it gets rejected. You can safely delete any local copies AFTER the image shows up on the fanart site.

7: Spend effort on your art.
I've had a few cases where it was pretty obvious that the art was sloppy and showed no effort. The comments on these are usually some lame excuse about how it's a rush job, blah, blah. If you can't spend time on it, what makes you think we should spend time on it? If you're not that great of an artist, at least make it neat. I can understand. Heck, Dom probably draws better than I do.

- Hodgepodge out.

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