Basic Characteristics

• Dimensions: 758x140 pixels
• Initial upload can be any type (png or jpg). It will convert to the required type for this format (.jpg).
• The initial upload needs to be at least the dimensions listed above. This is an attempt to force higher quality.
• Max upload size is now 10MB, but post-crop the file size will be aligned with our current images. We compress .jpgs at 90% compression, which should seldom appear lossy.
• Available on: series, movies, + seasons

Guidelines

• There are 3 types of Banners:
  • Graphical Banners — These are defined as having a graphical/logo version of the series or movie name.
  • Text Banners generally use Arial Bold font, 27pt as the text.
  • Blank Banners — The main requirement for blank banners is they should be blank on the left side of the banner as that is where the auto-generated text will be placed.
• Make sure you are uploading the image to the correct show/movie. Some titles do have duplicate or similar names and mistakes do happen, so double-check before you upload.

Graphical Banners

• The text on the logo must be large enough to read. Shrinking a tall logo to fit vertically and leaving the text largely illegible would cause the banner to be immediately deleted.
  
• Graphical banners should also not contain only a centred logo which only covers a small portion of the available space
• Banners that have an image behind the logo should contain the complete image, truncated people, places or things do not make for a good image.
  
• The entire logo should be visible images with truncated logos would be removed.

Examples

Graphical Banners

 Text Banners

 Blank Banners — Again they should be blank on the left side of the banner. Similar to this:

Secondary Examples

Below are additional images in styles we regularly find on the site. None of these are acceptable as banners. They would be subject to immediate deletion when found. Descriptions of why are included.

Bad Aspect Ratio
In most cases, these are the result of a larger image just being resized to match the banner dimensions. Without any care being paid to making the aspect ratio of the image match.

Low Resolution/Blurry
Generally, an undersized image is stretched in an attempt to fit.

Small Illegible logo
A large image is shrunk to in an attempt to fit vertically resulting in an illegible or difficult to read image.

Small logo
While still relatively easy to read this banner makes extremely poor use of its space and is not a desirable image.

Truncated or Incomplete Background Image
This image contains a partial image of people and a result is messy

Truncated Logo
This image contains a partial logo. If the logo is too large to be left legibly intact then find a different logo or consider creating a text or blank banner instead

Bad Composition
This image has multiple faults any of which would be cause for deletion. It has a truncated background image. As well it has the logo portion is badly blended with the remainder of the image. Finally, in a composite image, the logo is expected to be on the left side of the image.