Wikipedia:WikiProject Illustration
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[edit] Project scope and goals
The goals of this WikiProject are:
- To enhance the presence of Wikipedia's visual illustrations.
- To streamline the creation and improvement of these illustrations through collaboration and use of Wikipedia's sophisticated tools.
[edit] How you can help
- Find articles that would benefit from some form of illustration. This includes determining the form of illustration that would be most beneficial to the article.
- For instructions on requesting new images, see Wikipedia:Requested pictures.
- For more information on this subject, see Wikipedia:Choosing appropriate illustrations.
- Create new images. Photographers or users with image-creation talent can respond to user requests here and here. Please ensure that your images conform to Wikipedia's image use policy and quality guidelines before uploading them. Also, consider uploading free-use images to Wikimedia Commons so that they may be used across all Wikimedia projects.
- For instructions on uploading images, see Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload and Wikipedia:Uploading images.
- Improve currently existing images. This includes image touch-up as well as image re-creation (e.g. conversion to the SVG format).
- For a list of images needing cleanup, see Category:Images for cleanup.
- For a list of images needing miscellaneous attention, see Wikipedia:Pictures needing attention.
- For more information on image cleanup, see Wikipedia:Images for cleanup.
[edit] Related projects
- WikiProject Maps
- WikiProject Photography
- WikiProject Free images
- Graphic Lab
- Graphic Lab/Images to improve - Can request new graphics, too.
- Philip Greenspun illustration project. Request creation/improvement of illustrations.
[edit] Useful links
[edit] Catch-all
- Help:Contents/Images and media
- Commons:First steps
- Category:Wikipedia image help
- Commons:Category:Charts. See resource section.
[edit] Policy and guidelines
- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Image description page
- Wikipedia:Alternate text for images
- Wikipedia:Captions
[edit] Maintenance
- Wikipedia:Requested pictures and Commons:Category:Picture requests
- Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
- Wikipedia:Images with missing articles
- Special:Unusedimages
- Wikipedia:Image recreation requests
- Wikipedia:Images for cleanup
- Popular articles lacking an image
- User:BOTijo/Images for biographies
[edit] How-to
- Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
- Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials
- Wikipedia:How to improve image quality
- Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
- Wikipedia:How to keep image file sizes as small as possible
[edit] Userbox
You may place our userbox on your user page with {{User illustration}}.
[edit] Participants
Please add yourself to this list with the following code:
* [[User:username|username]] — Things you can do
- Aldrinv - illustrations by pen and ink, oil pastel and acrylic painting, graphics through Adobe Photoshop and photography.
- Amadscientist — Can illustrate with colored pencil, oils on canvas (sometimes still the best way) and in recent years have learned a great deal of 3D vector art, Photography.
- Meg Bernstein - illustrations especially of living organisms by colored pencil or watercolor or digitally through Corel Painter. Request via email.
- boffy_b - Diagrams, illustrations, photographs, correction/repair/colouring of existing images. Ask on my talk page and I'll see what I can do.
- CHiCk3ncoop - photoshop, vector graphics, photography
- David Remahl - It is fun to make computer generated graphics, especially procedure generated illustrations. If something is too tedious to do by hand, I can do it in Mathematica or write a small program.
- Daniel C. Boyer - I'm open to requests for illustrations
- DrBob - Can do technical illustrations, open for requests on my talk page.
- Drva1226 - Can do just about anything ok.
- Fastfission - happy to do work on vector based 2-D illustrations, I'm also especially happy with re-doing pixellated, MS Word-Draw style illustrations in Illustrator.
- Fir0002 Skilled in Photoshop. Cloning, warping, brightening, sharpening, you name it I can do it
- helix84 — if you have a (copyrighted) rastered illustration, I'll make a free .svg from it in Inkscape.
- Kiera - I'm a painter and sketch artist. I'm familiar with the mathematics and theory underlying image/signal processing and various computer graphics/vision algorithms. I'd be happy to illustrate just about anything that would benefit from a pencil drawing; I'm willing and able to make Visio and Illustrator diagrams, and welcome mathematical diagrams from the fields of lin. algebra, computational geometry, and calculus.
- Jeff Medkeff - I can take photos, esp. of landmarks and other Alaskan things between Fairbanks and Homer. Request via e-mail (preferred), or my talk page.
- Maclyn611 - open to requests for charts (such as Eskimo kinship chart) and related items.
- MithrandirMage — I specialize in hand-made, 2D vector illustrations.
- Neutrality 03:02, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- —Noldoaran (Talk) 06:04, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
- Reverie - I am a painter as well as a vector artist. I'm familiar with mathematics up to the electrical engineering level and can grasp abstract concepts well. I'm more than happy to do additional research related with illustrating your topic of interest. Requests welcome on my talk page.
- Smack - I can do computer drawings; see my user page for a list of pictures I've made; please put requests on User talk
- Stevertigo - I'm open to requests on my talk page for line-drawing portrait illustrations, and various others.
- Stib - I'm happy to take requests for 3D or 2D illustrations, I am particularly interested if you need any animations made.
- Thespian - I am a professional designer (Photoshop, PDF, etc), I can do 2-illustrations, and I just spent today clearing 20 images out of Images needing cleanup 'cleanup'. Can take information in any form and make it pretty, readable and usable; that's what I do for a living.
- Wapcaplet - Taking requests for diagrams or illustrations, especially of the 3D or vector variety. See my user page for examples.
- Wgsimon - Graphs, charts, diagrams, technical drawings on request.
- Xanthine - Scientific illustrator/infographic designer. My particular specialties include physics, chemistry, astronomy and microbiology, though I have a sound knowledge of most of the major sciences and am quite happy to do some background reading on any subject. Feel free to make any scientific or technical illustration or diagram requests.
- Xerxes2K - Specialized in diagrams, charts and graphs. I'b be happy to fulfil your requests on my talk page.
- Agateller - 2D illustrations of abstract concepts mostly, vector or bitmap
- Prolific - Maps, Graphs, Technical Diagrams, Anatomical Drawings, Sketches, Cicuit Diagrams, Molecular Diagrams
- mfx Q&A - maps, simple diagrams
- Emoscopes Talk - 2D vector illustration, schematics and illustration. Particular interest in mechanical things, military and aviation.
- Shyamal Simplified vector illustration for bird identification. Samples. Can handle some requests if provided source photographs etc. Shyamal 07:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- AchedDamiman
- Mschel — I am a not a great photographer, but I can take photographs. I can also vectorize. I am happy to take requests for anything on my talk page. --Mschel 03:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
- Shruti14 22:18, 2 August 2007 (UTC) have good image programs
- Mr A An amateur palaeo-artist working to illustrate as many of the prehistoric animal articles as possible.--Mr Fink 03:34, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Timeshifter — IrfanView familiarity. I can extract graphics from PDF files. Also studying "Create A Graph", a free online graph creation tool from NCES that does bar charts, line charts, area charts, pie charts, and XY graphs. Choice of PDF, PNG, JPG, EMF, EPS, and SVG output.
- IG-64 — I can fluently use 3ds Max, as well as Photoshop and After Effects. I can also make GIF animations of my creations. I am willing to create high-quality 3D illustrations. Requests can go on my talk page.

