Getting Started

Welcome

Welcome to fanart.tv and thank you for joining.

We hope you enjoy this site as much as we do.

If you know your way around with graphical software consider contributing artwork for everyone to enjoy. Do note we have set some relative high standard so we only accept the ‘best’.

All artwork is moderated after it has been uploaded by users to make sure only acceptable ones end up on the site.

See the getting started guide http://fanart.tv/getting-started/ on where you can find the rules and how to upload images.

We have noticed that some e-mail client automatic move e-mail from fanart.tv to the spam/junkmail box.
This causes you to not only miss the newsletters we sometimes send out but also the e-mail you receive when your uploaded artwork might be denied for a particular reason. We are seeing some great artwork being denied that just need some tiny things fixed but never hear from it again.

Note:
Please consider making a donation to pay for the server to keep this site alive.

Regards,
fanart.tv team

Front page

The top of every page will always contain this header that contains the most important parts of the site. This way you can easily navigate the site.

 

• TV / Music / Movies:
  Navigates to page which contains the overview for the available artwork types for that section
• News:
  This shows the latest news items posted by the fanart.tv crew
• Forum:
  This will show the forum overview where you can ask your question in the appropriate section. Here you do your on topic discussions or announcements.
• Members:
  This will show the user activity and can be sorted on ‘last active/newly registered/alphabetical’. You can also search for a user.
• Activity:
  This shows the site activity in chronological order and can be filtered on different types of activity
• Donation:
  This shows the running costs, the users that made a donation and the link to make a donation.

 

Searching

In the top right corner you will find a text box where you can type what you want to search and next to it what category it belongs to. The magnifying glass will start the search.

After the search has finished you will get the results dialog which contains a number of text search matches according to your search.

If your search hasn’t resulted in what you wanted you can also insert the correct ID.

 

Add missing media

thetvdb.com

ID= 80379

musicbrainz.org

ID = 65f4f0c5-ef9e-490c-aee3-909e7ae6b2ab

themoviedb.org

ID = 70160

imdb.com

ID = tt0120737

 

Add missing album

Search the album on MusicBrainz

and take the ‘MBID’ and copy/paste it into the text field and click ‘Add’.

The album should be immediately available after page refresh and you can start uploading artwork.

 

Media page

These are just examples of the different artwork types displayed within a tvshow/artist/movie page. All other types work in a similar way

• Request
  Brings up the dialog where you can request images for that artwork type. Try to provide as much information as you can find like example images that can be used, fonts or the website
• Upload:
  This brings up the upload dialog where you can select the image to upload and select appropriate flags like language/season/disc-number/disc-type
• Download:
  This will download the selected image according to your browser settings
• Report:
  This brings up a dialog where you can enter a reason for reporting an image. This can have several reasons like:
  bad quality, duplicates, wrongly tagged, uploaded to incorrect show/movie/artist
• Add to download queue:
  You can add several images to a download queue so you can download them all at once.
• Thumbs up:
  This will do a +1 vote on that image.

 

This image needs replacing

When an image needs replacing it will be marked as in the image below. When you hover your pointer over the image it will show a text dialogue with the reason why.

You can also report them yourself by hitting the report button. Images can be reported for several reasons.

• Bad quality
• Needs some more work done to it
• Wrong aspect ratio
• Wrongly uploaded
• Duplicate (and perhaps you uploaded a better one)
  If there is already a cdart marked for replacement please report them here!

 

Image download queue

 

Overview tabs

Who cares

This shows the statistics on image upload by month/year/all time.

Overview

This contains the general rules that apply to that type of artwork. Everyone making artwork should read these before uploading images. It also contains a small overview on how this type of image can be used in HTPC.

 

Latest

This shows the latest images that were uploaded by users. Hovering over the image with your cursor will show more info about that image.

 

Request

This will show the image requests made by users together with the provided resources and a button for uploading the image once it has been made.

 

Replace

This shows the images that have been marked to be replaced for some reason.

 

Tutorials

This shows the available tutorials relevant to that type of artwork.

Some sections still have no tutorial linked to them so feel free to  create one and send a mail to contribute@fanart.tv containing the tutorial. We would be very grateful and other users too. As you can see, videos are also welcome.
This wil also contain examples on possible reasons why your artwork can be denied. Before uploading check these examples to see if they pass moderation.

 

Templates

This shows the available templates relevant to that type of artwork

Some section still have no templates linked to them so feel free to  create one and send a mail to contribute@fanart.tv containing the template. We would be very grateful and other users too.