Screenshots Guide
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Hello everyone. For this blog post, I'm going to explain how the episode galleries work when it comes to submitting episode screenshots. Galleries are a big deal for this wiki and we currently have a total of fifth users who help adding screenshots for one or more episode galleries so far at this moment: me, LimonPoilis, Kitsunes97, zsotroav and Fifthletterofthealphabet; and also a lot of active/inactive users before: Syrénix Sérénité, Robyn Grayson, Linariel, NintendoSoul, Grsaar11, BelieveInMagic814, Chans60, HypedHypnos, Bunnybug, SugarCheese133, Kathylozano, SimplyNette, River That Crashes Onshore, Dearplikki, MiraculousFan25, WayzzMaster09, Miraculous Adrien Fan and Arthur nogueira 2007. If you're interested in helping out with the galleries, please read this carefully to avoid breaking any of the Wiki regulations/rules.
HQ Image Rules[]
The file you have must contain a resolution of 1080p and the file size must be above around 600MB. The screenshots must also be in PNG, so there should be no JPGs/JPEGs screenshots.
To keep the size of all episode screenshots consistent, here's the required size format.
If there is a screenshot for an episode, webisode, or Miraculous World special, the image must have a 1920 pixels horizontally by 1080 vertically
.jpg "Volpina LQ (407).jpg (89 KB)")
If there is a screenshot from the Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie trilogy, the image must have a 1920 pixels horizontally by 804 vertically. The reason why the movie screenshots have a different size format than a regular episode, webisode, or Miraculous World special is a result of the movie being produced to be released in theaters.
Whenever a movie is made for theaters (live-action or animated), the moviemakers have to change the aspect ratio so the movie can be in widescreen for the theatrical release. However, whenever a widescreen theatrical movie is being released on home media like Netflix and Disney+, you often see two large black bars above and below the movie while it's playing. This is, unfortunately, a side effect of the movie being transferred from being seen in theater to being seen in home media. Because the width of the theatrical movie is wider than its height, it results in the black bars being added to preserve the movie's original aspect ratio. This method is known as "letterboxing" in filming.
In the case of Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie, the black bars appear when you watch the movie on Netflix. So, when screenshotting the movie, the black bars should be removed to avoid the viewers getting distracted by them when looking at the screenshot from the movie itself. When the black bars are removed, it results in the screenshots being 804 pixels vertically.
There must be between 80% to 90% of the total images you screenshot must be above 900KB (though exceptions are accepted). There should be no edits from the screenshots you took unless, obviously, the movie trilogy since the black bars must be removed.
And most importantly, by "high quality", I mean the episodes that are screenshots must not be pixelated, no logo/watermark visible anywhere, and no video slider bar. Check to make sure the screenshot you took isn't too blurry and the resolution isn't low. If you're using Netflix and/or Disney+, that could sometimes happen if the video has poor quality and/or looks distorted because of the capabilities of your system.
HQ episodes source[]
This is a list of sites that are recommended to use to do the screenshots. For the purpose of following the wiki's rule about the ban of any mention of piracy links, this list only shows sites that legally support the show. If you know a site that has episodes of good quality but is uncertain about it being piracy and don't want to mention it on this wiki, feel free to DM me.
The list isn't completed, but these are the best that I could find:
- Netflix (Seasons 1-3 only)
- iTunes (Season 1 only)
- Disney+
- The official Miraculous Ladybug YouTube channel (webisodes only)
Taking screenshots[]
We all have different ways to screenshot the episodes, here're two methods that are the most familiar to me:
When taking screenshots on Netflix and Disney+, I recommend that you use either a desktop computer or a laptop. Simply follow the directions on how you take a screenshot by using your keyboard which depends on what type of computer you use. But first, the most important thing to do is to change your computer's resolution. Try to change your computer's screen resolution to 1920x1080 and you're good to go because if the screen resolution is 1920x1080, then the screenshot you took will have the 1920x1080 pixel frame. If your maximum screen resolution is only 1280x720 and you want to resize the images to fit the 1920x1080 requirement, unfortunately, it can sometimes lead to the image losing its resolution quality as a result. However, this depends on what software you're using to resize the image, so check to make sure the image doesn't become too blurry when you're resizing it or else it's technically considered low-quality. If you're using Netflix, choose either a standard or a premium subscription plan since those two have HD videos available (though, the premium also has ultra HD available).
If you have video files of the episodes (let's say from iTunes), I highly recommend you use either one of these programs to take screenshots:
- MPC-HC-x64
- VLC player
Taking screenshots on a tablet and/or a phone is not a good idea due to each device having a different screen resolution. And to be honest, I actually don't blame NintendoSoul for taking LQ screenshots for the first twelve episode galleries though, since Miraculous hasn't been released on Netflix yet and he took them back when it was on Nickelodeon on his iPad.
I do not recommend you screenshot any episodes that were uploaded on YouTube since the quality of them varies between the uploaders. The only exception would be the webisodes that are exclusively released on the official Miraculous Ladybug YouTube channel.
File names[]
There are two ways you can name the files you took: either by the episode abbreviation or the full name of the episodes. It's up to you to decide which one of the two ways you want to name the file.
For the episode abbreviations, each of the picture names must contain a code made of two letters. Please check the appearance templates for the abbreviations.
For example:
- SW = Stormy Weather
- TB = The Bubbler
- TP = The Pharaoh
If the episode you screenshot has the same abbreviation, then either just type down the full episode name or a different abbreviation for it.
(For example: "DB" can refer to either "Darkblade" or "Despair Bear". Since "DB" is already taken for "Darkblade", you have to choose either to use "Despair Bear" or "DSB")
Lastly, the screenshots you have taken must be in order. We have a numerical system that each screenshot file must have a number after the code/episode name.
Uploading screenshots[]
This is an easy step. When you're done screenshotting the episodes, go to the editor source and click on the "mass upload" option (which has a picture of a tray with an arrow pointing up) at the top. If you don't want to upload one individual image at a time, simply select all the images you have on your file and drop them all there. The good news with the new UCP update is that it's much faster to upload multiple images than going to the old Special:MultipleUpload page where you can only upload either 10 images (if you're a regular user) or 20 images (if you're part of the wiki staff) at a time.
And after you upload a screenshot, make sure you categorize it. The first category is always "Gallery files", follow by the episode images category (such as "Simon Says Images" or "Volpina Images"). Once every single galleries are complete and the wiki users start applying the images to the character galleries, a bot, another bot or a member of staff will look through the episode galleries and categorize the images.
Number of Images in a Gallery[]
Don't get yourself stressed out. Taking screenshots for the galleries takes time. However, I want to address how many images there are going to be in the webisode, episode, and movie galleries since this is very important.
As of early-to-mid 2023, Fandom has limited a certain number of images that can be displayed on article pages all across various wikis. While the exact number is unknown, if there are ten thousand or so images added to an article page, then an error message will appear saying "The article has become too complex and we can't render the component in this place. Reduce the size of this article to display all components". This is due to the article page having too many images that have a large file size and the site isn't able to quickly load/render them all properly to the viewers.
This is the reason why certain galleries have to be divided into multiple subpages so it can prevent this error from happening. For example, because Marinette and Adrien are both main characters who appear in nearly every single media which results in an excessive number of images, their galleries have to be divided into "Miscellaneous", half of a Season, "Miraculous World", webisodes, official artwork, etc.
We want to limit the number of screenshots for the webisode, episode, and movie galleries so we can put them on the character, object, and place galleries without having to create too many subpages for them. So, here's a list of media that have a limited number of images required. The average number of images in a gallery varies on the length of the media and what format it is.
For a 1-minute webisode, there are between 25 to 100 images. This depends if the webisode is animated in 2D or CGI.
For a regular 22-minute episode gallery, there are usually between 400 to 500 images.
For a Miraculous World TV movie gallery, it varies due to the specials each having a different episode length. You can do the math based on the TV movie length and the number of images of a regular 22-minute episode. If the special is 44 minutes, there'll be between 800 to 1000 images. If the special is around 66 minutes, then it's 1400 to 1500 images. The images would include both the opening sequences and the end credits.
And finally for the Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie trilogy, then there'll be around 1600 to 2200 images. Even though it's too early to tell about the sequel's length, it's likely each film would be 106 minutes long.
As of 2023, the number of images for the planned Miraculous live-action TV series is uncertain. But this blog post will be updated in the future as soon as more information on the TV series is released.
In-completed episode galleries (so far)[]
Here's a list of in-completed episode galleries. If you want to call dibs on one of them, please let me know so I can add you to the list. There are some cases where a user is inactive and/or they are unable to have time to work on a gallery. If this happens and you want to do it in their place, please ask them beforehand so you would know if the user is still planning to work on it or not. If they say yes, then let me know about the changes. My biggest pet peeve is when someone takes over a gallery without letting a user who's planning to do it know about it. That user might be in the middle of screenshotting the episodes and are about to upload them.
Questions[]
If you have any questions about this blog post, please ask me on my message wall and I'll try my best to explain it to you.