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Title: If you need images
Post by: Genesys on December 07, 2009, 07:03:39 PM
In this page you can find a lot of images for your desing.
 
http://rule34.paheal.net (http://rule34.paheal.net/)
Title: Re: Is you need images
Post by: Fstop on December 07, 2009, 07:51:18 PM
its a slow loading site but that were I find most of my pics
Title: Re: Is you need images
Post by: Genesys on December 07, 2009, 08:26:41 PM
the web found better in firefox, is so slowly but have a lot of images of diferents animes and others.
Title: Re: Is you need images
Post by: Sigfried666 on December 07, 2009, 08:46:50 PM
One of my favorite site for picture searching. Unfortunately, not helpfull when trying to make random girls (that are actually random)
Title: Re: Is you need images
Post by: Alugere on December 07, 2009, 09:10:35 PM
http://gelbooru.com/ (http://gelbooru.com/)

Gelbooru tends to be very good in most cases, especially if you want to stick to girls chosen by features such as hair color.
Title: Re: Is you need images
Post by: sgb on December 07, 2009, 11:14:58 PM
If you understand enough Japanese to navigate it, http://www.pixiv.net/ (http://www.pixiv.net/) is where I find a lot of images when all the other sources fail.  *WARNING* there's a lot of BAD art there too.

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/ (http://www.sankakucomplex.com/) is pretty good too; it's pretty much the same image pool as gelbooru but I find there's a bit more there usually.
Title: Re: Is you need images
Post by: Rose on December 08, 2009, 02:25:14 PM
Yeah, those are pretty much my favorite sites when looking for pictures.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Midnight_Amratha on May 21, 2010, 05:05:03 AM
a nice little image program to sort out in your images and to prevent doublets of pictures is the FSviewer42, a cute little freeware program.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Lorde on June 16, 2010, 01:33:57 PM
Lorde's Guide to delving through JP Amateur artist websites for more images without knowing how to read Japanese.


Gonna wright this small (ended up bigger than I thought) guide here because I feel it could really help out people trying to find more images for their characters.  Note that it is often better to rely on E-hentai or rule34, especially since both sites have extensive images collections. But if you want something new and or looking for images of not so popular characters. And the character was originally of JP origin. Then this guide is for you.

Ok, first thing you need to know is that you don't need to know any Japanese at all to surf JP sites. You just need some patience. You are going to do a lot of Google image searches with family|content filters off (duh) and you will be hovering your mouse pointer over links to see where they go in the status bar. The status bar is  the real trick because URL's need to be in good old fashioned Alphanumeric (Ascii to be precise) to be considered valid. And since it's a language and character set JP users aren't accustomed to, they generally use the same directory structure on different sites. With that, lets get started.

:::::::::::::::::::::::First stop Wikipedia:

If you are going to start searching JP sites, you are going to need a place to start, and the best place is usually with a character or game|anime name in Kanji|Hiragana. Now, thankfully, you don't need to actually know how to write those names in a JP character set. Just go to wikipedia, type in the characters name, and boom. You will usually have the characters original JP name next to the character name on their page as well as the JP version of the series name. Copy Paste that into a text file for future use and you now have a place to start your search.

:::::::::::::::Google Image search "Entry point", It's pretty much made of suck, but a good first step:

Welcome to Google Image search. The land of broken promises and broken image links. At the very least, you will have a starting point. You can refine your search down a bit by popping one of these keywords in next to your character name. Ero, Gallery, 18禁 (Note if anyone finds anymore let me know) It helps with some characters. But with others, these might start popping porn movie covers in your results. If you find new pics in google images right off the bat. Congratulations and I hate you :P . More likely though, You will see some images that have been around since early 2000 on the web. It all depends on how lucky you are and what character you are looking for.
But at least you have an "entry point"

::::::::::::::::Google Web search "Entry point" Same as above minus the picture aid:

.... I hate google, they prioritize blogs and commerce sites over amateur sites in their search results and we are looking for the amateur sites. You will most likely find the JP homepages of the companies that release the Anime|game you where looking for, Links to fan blogs of the series, links to doujinshi sale sites like DMM, Melonbooks and dlsite (more on dlsite later) and finally.... 2ch. I hate 2 chan with a <bleep>ing passion. Yes, 2 chan. The forerunner to the infamous 4chan. It's obnoxious because it has a slashdot effect. Meaning, whatever it links to, goes down HARD. You will notice you are on a 2ch site right away when you see the ancient webforum design in grey background black text standard mode. You will also notice a lot of links to images.... That have all 404'd into web oblivion. And some are only are only 2 months old. That's how fast 2ch can rape a site. God awful useless site if you can't read Japanese.

Every once in awhile though you will run into an amature artist site or a Hentai blog and that's what you are looking for.

:::::::::::::::Cheating a little with Dlsite.com (Circle entry point):

Before I start with Dlsite let me explain the concept of a circle. A circle is basically a group of amateur artists. Many draw hentai. And that's it for Mr. explanation on circles. :D Dlsite is a great entry point into amateur artist sites that even has direct links to the websites you are looking for. Sadly, a drunken monkey designed their search engine and they don't seem to care. Searching for things on dlsite require the use of * in place of letters in a character name.... randomly. Maybe this is their way of keeping copyright lawyers from finding out that there are people making naughty pics of different companies IP's. Doesn't matter because it's annoying.

But you can find some great artists sites using Dlsite as a base (can also buy some artist sets, but those are most likely on e-hentai and hongfire already.)  First, if you haven't been to dlsite like ever, you should probably go there and check out the english version of the site.

http://eng.dlsite.com/ (http://eng.dlsite.com/)

pick any image set, game, whatever and get used to the format. It will help when you are digging through the JP version of the site. Why the JP version? Some artists refuse to sell to us "gaijin" so the jp version has more content. (note you can still buy from the jp version of the site. Dlsite doesn't care one way or another if you are JP, NA, EU or space alien as long as you have a valid credit card. Just use the English order form as a template to fill out the JP one.)

While you are looking at the image set you chose. Notice that under the picture for the image set you have 3 fields. ::Title, ::circle, ::website. These 3 are the most useful to you and are in the exact same order on the JP version of the site. The JP version of the title is useful if you are looking for the "free" (haha lulz) version of the set on hongfire or e-hentai and using the english version of the title gave you nada . CPing the jp title into google with site:hongfire.com prepended to it will usually get you the set. (will need a bittorrent client though) The circle field is useful for both the english and jp versions. It will just show all the sets this circle has released on the site.
The Website field is what we are most interested in and it's a safe bet that if the artist released a set with a character, he probably has more of that character on his site. (not always see "actually surfing the sites" section)

The easiest way to get to the JP version of dlsite is to go to google and type

site:dlsite.com <jp version of character|series name>

You won't get everything on dlsite from that. (See the above search engine writing monkeys) But you will get enough to find the amateur sites.


::::::::::Actually Surfing the sites:

Ok lets discuss the most common sites we are looking for.

Gallery sites:- Sites with a Gallery of images (dur) Either thumbnailed or text galleries. I'll give some tips for text galleries later.

Example, http://azasuke.jp/sea.html (http://azasuke.jp/sea.html)

Most gallery sites are on sakura.ne.jp or biglobe.ne.jp. Both networks may drop a site for whatever reason, taking whatever art they had with them.

Blog Sites:- Also called Diaries in Japan. (seriously) Harder to navigate than gallery sites. Especially if the blogger decides to write about pocky or what colored panties he likes best for 2 months before actually posting images. Most, thankfully, post lots of images to their blog. (more frequently than the gallery sites do) and they don't tend to delete older images as often to make room for new.

Example, http://onkin.blog81.fc2.com/ (http://onkin.blog81.fc2.com/)

most blog sites are on fc2.com. fc2 is a bit more stable then sakura or biglobe. But 2ch can change that in a hurry. Most defunct blogs happen because 2ch killed the sites bandwith.

Doujinshi Advert site. These get on my nerves and are becoming increasingly common these days. Basically, all these sites exist purely to advertise the artists Doujinshi. Very little in the way of free art so it's a bust. (can of course get the sets on e-hentai or hongfire as usual though )

Example, http://saberfish.jp/top.html (http://saberfish.jp/top.html)

Ok now that you found a few sites, you probably ran into the dreaded moonspeak. Now, no, I don't mean the actual Japanese language (settle down bleeding hearts). I mean what you will see if you don't have Japanese character sets installed on your computer. It's a string of ? and ! and boxes with numbers in them and symbols that look like something you'd find on wreckage from a UFO crash site. No living thing on this planet can read that (or stand looking at it for very long) so don't worry about learning it.

To see actual Japanese text, go to this site

http://kb.iu.edu/data/aelp.html (http://kb.iu.edu/data/aelp.html)

and follow the instructions there.

Getting actual Japanese to show up in your browser is useful when you want to use your browsers Find function for actually finding a characters name in a webpage. The find function won't understand moonspeak anymore than you can, so setting  the display settings up correctly will enable you to  use it.

::::::::::::: Things to look for on the sites:

There are  4 things you want to look for on these sites.

Gallery, Garrery, img, image, pic, picture, CG or something along these lines: Websites image gallery

Diary, Blog: Websites blog (some are home pages that link to blogs) more time consuming to surf than galleries but well worth the effort since a lot of images never before seen by the west may be there.

Links: Links to other sites. (dur) If the artist isn't obsessive, compulsive he will have like minded artists linked in this section. Meaning you may find more images outside of google. If he is obsessive, compulsive you will see about 100 links to sites that have nothing to do with art, much less what he draws. May link to banner collection sites. Those are a gold mine of Amateur art sites.

Works: Artists Doujinshi work (dlsite or melanbooks) and links to professional work they have done. Search them on hongfire or e-hentai. 

Now if site navigation is in English, your work is done. If not, you will have to float over the links on the site and check your web browsers status bar. You should see the path pop up down there. (if not they are probably using Javascript to block that. Firefoxes no-script takes care of that.) Look for the above keywords in the directory structure of the link. (example somesite.sakura.ne.jp/stuff/gallery.html) and click the link. It's that simple once you actually get to the site.



:::::::::::::::Some tips and things to look out for.

Artists like to delete older work to make room for newer items on the website. This really isn't necessary these days, with HD space getting cheaper and cheaper, But It's almost traditional so be aware of that if you run into a 404 from google. Back up in the URL to get to the main site and you may find some newer images of the character.
if you got the link from 2ch however.......

Artists tastes change all the time, so someone that liked a character last year may never make an image of that character ever again. Example of this is azasuke. Used to make some very good pictures of Ivy Valentine (not to mention soul calibur in general) but suddenly stopped to devote all his time making Revy pics from Black Lagoon Heroines. (very annoying)

Your Browsers find function is your best friend. Especially on text galleries. You can also use it on Obvious non artist sites to find why the hell google brought you to this page. (sometimes a link to an artists site is buried in a blog.) But google being google you may end up in a website that has 0 of the keywords you used.

And that's it for surfing JP websites.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: eviljanitor on October 19, 2010, 12:33:00 AM
4chan and 7chans hentai and alt hentai boards are also a good place for images.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: SCO on December 03, 2010, 08:46:13 PM
I have found quite a bit of good stuff on E-Hentai (http://g.e-hentai.org/).  There is a lot of repeats to go through, but I've expanded quite a few files from the guys here, and I plan on re-packing what I've gotten from this site for you guys here.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: LordJerle on December 05, 2010, 11:32:20 PM
Here's a whole bunch of super-heroine pics for your abusing/viewing pleasure.
http://powerbook125.deviantart.com/gallery
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Mak on March 07, 2011, 10:14:46 PM
Lorde's guide for JP sites is great if you're patient. My regional settings are set to JP due to JP coding in various games I play so I get less "moonspeak" lol. I haven't come across a game from NA or Europe that isn't unicode personally. I am impatient though, so don't expect things you haven't seen from me. I try to be profile heavy because as others have stated before, those pics are the ones you see the most. Here are the main sites I use for profile pics.
http://www.deviantart.com/ (http://www.deviantart.com/)
http://www.advancedanime.com/ (http://www.advancedanime.com/)
http://www.animevice.com/ (http://www.animevice.com/)
http://www.giantbomb.com/ (http://www.giantbomb.com/)
http://www.animegalleries.net/index.php (http://www.animegalleries.net/index.php)
 
I use others, but those are the main sources.
 
For hentai Images, a source I haven't seen listed is:
http://lu.scio.us/ (http://lu.scio.us/) (Edit: The quality of this site has become even more questionable for images since they changed sponsor. I don't know enough to give details, but don't blame me if you waste your time.)
It's a pain but sometimes I find things I haven't seen.
http://hentaifromhell.net/ (http://hentaifromhell.net/)
This can be hit or miss, but sometimes you can download a decent pack full of images to start off with.
 
Also I'd like to point out IrfanView as I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere. It's a free image editting program, I find it quite useful. You are also able to convert all file types I know of. It's not an in depth program when it comes to editting, but it's a huge leap over paint lol.
http://www.irfanview.com/ (http://www.irfanview.com/)
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Froggy on March 11, 2012, 08:34:45 PM
Egads, no one mentioned http://www.sankakucomplex.com yet? 

Just click "Images" and choose between "Idol Complex" (real girls) and "Sankaku Channel" (hentai girls)

Though using images of real girls could cause legal issues, but hey, they're already doing porn so I don't know what they'd really have to complain about.  ;)
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: fires_flair on March 12, 2012, 12:20:33 AM
actually they did. 5th post
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Bender on September 25, 2012, 07:42:51 PM
http://g.e-hentai.org (http://g.e-hentai.org/)
http://www.sexy-toons.org (http://www.sexy-toons.org/)
http://images.hentai.ms (http://images.hentai.ms/)
http://thehentaiworld.com/ (http://thehentaiworld.com/)
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: assburger321 on February 12, 2014, 02:59:16 PM
This thread gave me the idea to go look for new pictures for Mizuchi Tachibana. its annoying but everyone who has made a her apart of a game like this they have all these exaggerated pictures that make her look really fat, when in reality she isnt that big
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: FlamBurger on February 14, 2014, 09:16:25 AM
^This, every time I make a pack the girl always be exaggerated to be more than they usually are. >:(


It's frustrating..... :'( [size=78%]  [/size]
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: laposteb on April 20, 2014, 09:19:06 AM
If you search for images of naruto mainly you also have these sites:

Type chat :
http://boards.420chan.org/h/res/190174.php (http://boards.420chan.org/h/res/190174.php)
http://boards.420chan.org/h/res/190331.php (http://boards.420chan.org/h/res/190331.php)
http://boards.420chan.org/h/res/183521.php (http://boards.420chan.org/h/res/183521.php#187722)

Type blog :
http://hentaianimes.centerblog.net/ (http://hentaianimes.centerblog.net/)
http://editsofnarutohentai.centerblog.net/ (http://editsofnarutohentai.centerblog.net/)


But the best sites, even if you've already mentioned:

http://thehentaiworld.com/ (http://thehentaiworld.com/)
http://g.e-hentai.org/ (http://g.e-hentai.org/)
http://www.deviantart.com/ (http://www.deviantart.com/)
http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/ (http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/)
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Otaku_Hanzo on April 20, 2014, 03:13:51 PM
I have found quite a bit of good stuff on E-Hentai (http://g.e-hentai.org/).  There is a lot of repeats to go through, but I've expanded quite a few files from the guys here, and I plan on re-packing what I've gotten from this site for you guys here.


Glad to see someone else mentioned that site. Discovered them a couple years ago and they've been my source for hentai and ecchi since.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: 0nymous on August 27, 2014, 09:57:50 AM
I was thinking of making a new thread for this, but since this one is a sticky already, I'm just gonna revive it.

In light of new image types, I wanted to make a... guide of sorts to aid people in finding images, the way I do it.  I may repeat some sources used in the past in this thread, although I'm not going to stop on just giving source, I want to give some minor advice on how to use them as well.

Sources for images:

The boorus:

https://chan.sankakucomplex.com (https://chan.sankakucomplex.com)
Has a nifty, visible tag for the most popular images, based on user scores. Unfortunately, if you're not a member of the site, you're limited to a search of 4 tags at once. The "most popular" tag counts. Loads the image gallery on a single page, you browse it by scrolling down, instead of opening links to separate pages/tabs.


http://gelbooru.com/ (http://gelbooru.com/)
https://danbooru.donmai.us (https://danbooru.donmai.us)
No striking differences between the two. I have a personal preference of using Gelbooru almost exclusively, as it seems more popular in general. It has a slightly annoying add redirection that forces you to wait 10 seconds, but it only happens once per session.


http://safebooru.org/ (http://safebooru.org/)
As the name implies, you'll find only worksafe images here. Good  for finding Profile images, if you don't feel like playing around with tags on the other boorus.

All of the above websites GENERALLY have eastern (i.e. japenese) art. If you're looking for more, or you find an artist that you specifically like, you can usually find a Pixiv address as the source of an image. Pixiv WILL require you to make an account there and log-in if you want to browse 18+ images, however. I've had no special difficulties doing that using Google translate. (Hell, by finding and pasting specific tags in moonrunes you could even browse Pixiv to get images directly at the source.)


Also, a small note on how the character names are handled on boorus: the same way they are in japanese;  last name first, first name second. So, it's not going to be "Miku_Hatsune", but "Hatsune_Miku".
Also, the boorus use the romanized original Japanese names for characters. This is most notable for Pokemon characters: a search for "Cynthia" is fruitless on Gelbooru, you have to search for "shirona_(pokemon)". Also, in this case, note the series origin of the character in parentheses - this is used in case of different characters from different series sharing names, or simply for better character identification.




Other sites:

http://g.e-hentai.org/ (http://g.e-hentai.org/)
The gallery of e-hentai.org. Toplists, tags, torrents. All you could wish for. A heaven for doujins, but that doesn't interest someone looking for images much. Has an intricate filter search that you can base on rating,  10 "main" tags (I highly recommend the "Artist CG", "Game CG", and "Image Set" ones), as well as support for a wide variety of other tags. These tags, however, apply to entire galleries, not single images. So you can search for an entire set dedicated to a certain fetish or character.

Great for finding ripped CGs from games or various artists. You can find them here "in bulk", unlike the boorus, which have a strict uploading policy of not allowing flooding the site with dozens of the same CG with minimal difference (like a different facial expression of a character or clean version of the same image).

http://exhentai.org/ (http://exhentai.org/)
Exactly the same site layout as above. But... it's bigger, better, has more galleries that are usually uploaded at a frighteningly fast speed after release... and is a secret club available only to a few chosen ones.

Western image sources:

http://www.hentai-foundry.com/ (http://www.hentai-foundry.com/)
The "club" for a wide variety of western pornographic artists. Some eastern ones have their accounts too, but not many of them.  Many of the artists here do not upload their images anywhere else, so finding them in other places (listed below) is a matter of someone else uploading them there. The quality of the images on HF is also somewhat moderated, so you won't find any outright crap images.
Other than that, you can make an account for free that gives you many priviledges and options for browsing, there is also a filter system based on orientations and fetishes.
Oh yeah, they had a recent policy change regarding loli and shota images. Much to their staff's dismay, they had to scrap them completely due to external pressure.

http://rule34.paheal.net/ (http://rule34.paheal.net/)
http://rule34.xxx/ (http://rule34.xxx/)
These sites operate on a layout identical to the boorus. BUT, they are a source of both western and eastern art.  The control over quality of art seems to be also less extreme, so you may find plenty of images that are outright crap.
What's the difference between the two? Paheal is ancient and has a long history of networking issues. It used to be slow as shit. Some bigger images, especially the animated ones, still load abysmally long. It's not as bad as in the past, though. Paheal also doesn't have an intricate tag system - the usual tags are only artist, characters in the image and the setting of the characters. Rule34.xxx operates on a tag system similar to the boorus.

These links in general SHOULD be enough to find whatever you need. I've sometimes delved into some artists personal blogs or accounts on different sites, and the general rule is: if it was drawn, it will be uploaded somewhere in the links above.


Searching for images and which tags to use:

Now that you know (and probably have already known before reading this post) WHERE to find images, here's something more interesting - HOW to look for them.

Here's a complete list of all the image types in the game, courtesy of aevojoey:http://www.pinkpetal.org/index.php?topic=3446.msg27877#msg27877 (http://www.pinkpetal.org/index.php?topic=3446.msg27877#msg27877)

What I'm going to do, is give you a basic idea of how to filter images effectively through tags to get what you need. I'll be using Gelbooru myself, I'm not sure how reliable the tags there will be to Danbooru or Sankaku Channel, but they should pretty much cover all the sites.


The most important thing to know is that tags work both ways. You can filter a certain tag out completely by putting a "-" in front of it. So, if you're only looking for 2D images and you don't want to see entire pages of images of real life cosplay of the character you're looking for, you can add "-photo" to the tag list.


If you're looking for non-sexual images (when in need of profile pictures only), you can apply tags like "-sex", "-nude", "-cum" to the search.


Keep in mind there will be probably plenty of image types left blank. Realistically, it's impossible for every girl to have every image type available, even for extremely popular girls with galleries that have images in the tens of thousands (like Hatsune Miku, currently sitting with 62860 images on Gelbooru).
Also, ALWAYS bear in mind, the tags are set up and maintained by uploaders and members of the site. People are lazy. Some images will lack tags that should obviously be there.


Let's get to easy mode images first:
Profile - Just use the name of the girl as a tag. Using "1girl" or "solo" may help by filtering group images.
Ecchi - same as above. "alternate_costume" does wonders here as well.
Nude - simply "nude" works well enough.
Strip - "pole" is your friend. "naughty_face", "come_hither", "looking_at_viewer", "presenting" usually include girls in slutty poses that may fit this image type perfectly. Other than that, apply the same searches you use for Profile and Nude. You're guaranteed to find something fitting.
Swim - Plenty of "swimsuit" tagged images.
Sex - "sex" and "vaginal". Nuff' said.
Anal - "anal". "from_behind" combined with "sex" may yield images that could be interpreted as anal.
BDSM - "bdsm" works. "rope" is also helpful.
Beast -  "bestiality", "tentacles"/"tentacle". A pretty far-fetched attempt could be searching for "orc" as well.
Mast - "masturbation", "dildo", "object_insertion".
Les - "lesbian" doesn't work as often as you'd expect. "2girls" should earn greater, albeit more non-sexual, results.
Oral - "oral" or "fellatio" work. "mouth_pull" or "tongue_out" may yield some surprising results.
Titty - "titfuck" or "paizuri". Sometimes "breast_squeeze".
Hand - "handjob"
Foot - "footjob" works. You may also try searching for the "feet" and "cum" tags together.


Medium difficulty:
Milk - "lactation", "milking_machine". Best bet is "breast_grab".
Bath - be on the lookout for "onsen" or just "bath". If desperate, try "steam" or "water".
Bed - My favourite is just searching for "lingerie" and/or "naughty_face". There is a "bed" tag, but it includes beds in any situation, mostly sexual ones. Try "sleeping" or "bedroom_eyes" instead. "dakimakura" is an excellent option as well.
Bunny - "bunnysuit" (spelled together), "bunny_ears", "bunny_girl". Alternatively "cat_ears", but only in conjuction with non-catgirls.
Maid - simply "maid" will work most of the times. "apron"  if desperate. "alternate_costume" may also work.
Wait -  "waitress" exists as a tag. Otherwise, try "apron" and "alternate_costume" again. You may rarely find results using "tray" or "food" that are satisfying.
Preg - There's a surprisingly low amount of girls tagged with "pregnant". And the worst part is, you don't have any other tag options here.
Combat - "katana", "sword", "blood". Overall, not that hard to find, but requires imagination when it comes to tags.
Sing - "singing", "microphone", "karaoke".


Hard difficulty:
Card - depends what you're looking for when you need a gambler girl. "top_hat"  or "business_suit" are interesting results if you want something classy. Other than that, you're off scouring "alternate_costume" or just the girl's gallery in general.
Cook - "food", "frying_pan", "spatula", "apron". "chocolate" as well, because making chocolate yourself on valentine's day is a big deal in Japan.
Herd - I honestly don't know. If some girl is wearing a shepherd girl outfit, maybe.
Farm - same as above. "alternate_costume" may yield...something. Other than that, you have to rely on gems, like this exemplary one I found recently,: http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2370006 (http://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2370006)
Craft - Again, no idea. I may come up with something later.


For the sake of your hard drive space:


So you've got your girl's folder filled with 50 images and you're ready to set up her .girlsx file? Not so fast.
Some of the images you've downloaded are probably .png. Now, the difference in quality between a .png and .jpg is minimal  in my opinion. The main advantage a .png has in our case is transparency, so you could have your girl's images blend in with the background in-game which is really cool. You can do that by using Paint.NET - a freeware image editor that's relatively easy to learn and use.
But, in case your image isn't transparent and/or you don't want it to be, I personally think it'd be a good idea to have convert it to .jpg along all others, so your Characters folder isn't a bloated mass of dozens of gigabytes.
I recommend this simple free batch image converter:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bulkimageconver/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bulkimageconver/)
It's small and intuitive and has all the options you'll need - that is the one automatically deleting the original .png files you'd wish to convert and the option to apply that setting to all the subdirectories.
Of course, individual .png images can always be opened in MSPaint and Saved As a .jpg. The difference in size of the image is a case of a couple thousand KB at best, usually a couple hundred, but the more girls you have, the more space their image files occupy.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Yukinohki on August 27, 2014, 02:02:47 PM
Depending on what you are looking for,
http://www.deviantart.com/ (http://www.deviantart.com/) can also be a very good source for non-erotic and soft-erotic (and some hardcore) pictures.
As with pixiv you may need an account for certain images, but creating one is free and without problems.
Strange thing with deviant art is,
things like hardcore bdsm and torture are fine,
any kind of sexual penetration isn't, even in consentual loving sex or masturbation.

For image editing, changing resolutions/fileformats, i use irfanview  (http://www.irfanview.com/)
it also has a funktion to edit many pictures at once for sizes, filenames, fileformats, different filters and so on.
It supports a lot of different languages.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: FlamBurger on October 04, 2014, 10:53:45 AM
I might have an idea on craft, maybe it can depend on the girl but with Nitori I usually have a pic of her making one of her inventions. Making potions, toys, you name it.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 08, 2016, 05:59:43 PM
Can the next version please have an optional toggle to use images in the "defaultimages" as the alternates instead of the other alternates method?

I have been doing EXTENSIVE personal editing of my defaultimages folder.  I have added tons of great animated gifs and cropped photos.  My goal was to cut off all hair and chests (for most of the image types except those that are necessary - ie Milk and Titty, of course) from photos to be able to basically have a large assortment of images that are pretty general and could be used with almost any other set of more personalized photos (iow - the images provided for a character in the character folder).  I want to be able to have a whole bunch of fairly general girl characters that have their own specific images (like a warrior-type girl would have her own custom profile, presented, and maybe even combat pics), but then when images for that activity type are unavailable in her character folder, then the game will grab one of my images from the defaultimages folder for that activity type.  The problem, is that the way the game works... they are never used.  For instance... if I have my girl cook at the bar, the game will first try to use the girl's cook pic... if that's not there, wait.  if that's not there, maid.  And if none of those alternates are available, it will use a profile pic of hers.  Why does it work that way?  There should be a way to customize the way the game chooses alternate photos... because I would prefer that if the girl has no cook pic, that it immediately uses one of the defaultimages cook pics instead.

I don't understand the point of even having a defaultimages folder if it doesn't work this way.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 08, 2016, 06:22:18 PM
I just realized that I had the defaultimages folder in the wrong place.  It does use the images in the defaultimages folder over using a profile pic from the girl's folder... but it still hunts for alternates there first before resorting to defaultimages.  Back to the Cook example... it will still look for Wait and Maid pics in the girl's folder first before going to the defaultimages.  Can we get a toggle to use the defaultimages of the correct image type first before going for the alternates in the girl's folder?  I'd rather pull from the correct type of action using basically a miscellaneous appropriate activity pic (the ones I set up in the defaultimages folder) that shows the correct activity over one of the customized ones for the correct girl showing a less appropriate activity type.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 08, 2016, 06:29:08 PM
Some that really don't make sense:

Les alternate is girl's Sex pic (which all show guys) instead of defaultimages' Les pic which show women?  Vice versa for Sex using Les as an alt.

Beast uses Sex as an alt?

Hand uses Foot as an alt?

There's a better way... Defaultimages.

It will save a lot of storage space too, because you have a lot of great defaultimages to use... and then when you really want a specific girl to not show something from the defaultimages alternate folder, then all you do is make a copy of one of her other pics from another category, copy and rename it to the category you'd rather have show instead of the defaultimages alt.

At least give the option to do it this way.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: jonwich on March 08, 2016, 08:12:32 PM
You can already do that.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 08, 2016, 09:18:50 PM
ok... if you can - how?

EDIT: I'm using the newest crazy mod version btw - v.06.02.28.  That's what we're both talking about, right?

EDIT2: OK... I never knew about the config.xml file until now.  Why not have the game update this config.xml file through the "Settings" menu selection when running the game?  That would be much more intuitive.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 12, 2016, 09:51:14 AM
Can someone detail the situations appropriate for all of the image types (even "Lick" - which actor is licking who, and licking what?)?  I know some of the image types are not actively being used in the game currently (possibly set aside for other scripted mods), but I'm hoping that they were at least figured out ahead of time to determine what they could be used for.

I am creating a new much more extensive Defaultimages package that I plan on offering to everyone else here and I want to make sure that I get everything correct (as best as it can be given the limitations that I can't change).  If you don't already know why the Defaultimages folder is so important, let me explain.  It can allow you to create a ton of random girls where each one has specific profile pics (obtained from each girl's character folder), but then use shared general images from the Defaultimages folder for everything else.  This means that the Defaultimages folder has to be careful crafted though to work well and make sense if it is to be used for this purpose.  You will have to edit your config file to take advantage of this (find out how to do it in the forum).  Here are my current rules for selecting images:

- images are drawings or another style of CG (except for a maybe a few non-girl ones - like, I got a really cool grim reaper GIF a "Death" image type that looks like it could have be from a movie clip).  I threw in a lot of very nice animated GIFs, so it's like you are watching little anime/hentai movie clips - yes!
- images display a completely human actor.  actors with non-human visual qualities will have to have their own unique pictures in their own character folder
- hair is completely cropped from all images (from where the actor could be assumed to be located) as that takes way too much away from anonymity
- chests are cropped from every image (from where the actor could be assumed to be in the pic) except those where I just can't get away from it (ie. Milk and Titty - in those cases I used above average through very large size breasts as why bother milking or titsex with small breasts anyway?) as that also takes away from anonymity also.
- skin is non-tattooed.  If you have a tattooed actor, that's a unique feature that you'll have to get special pics for and put in her folder specifically.
- skin is generally light through tanned.  You can easily just assume that varied skin color is a result of differing lighting.  If you have a black or a ghostly pale actor, you'll have to use specific pics to account for that in their specific folders.
- pubic hair is a non-concern, as it can be assumed to routinely grow and get shaved by any girl.
- consideration for clothing is dependent on what might make sense for the image type.  If you have a specific girl who is defined by her clothes, then you will have to provide her own custom pics in her character folder.
- As stated at the top of this message, there are image types I am providing images for in this package that are not implemented in the game but are available for other modders to use in their scripts.  Apparently most (if not all) of them fall within implemented categories.  I plan on providing a document with the download to explain the implemented categories those images fall within.  I will leave it up to the downloader to follow the instructions to copy and rename images.  The reason I will be doing this is mainly for the sake of keeping the download smaller.  It also makes it easier for people that prefer it to have unique images for the unique categories that aren't also used for the more general categories.

So, please.  Help me to create this.  All I need is someone to help detail to me what action each image type is used for, because the information on this forum is too vague for me to do this properly.  What I mean by this is, for each action: actor is receiving or providing (maybe either), performing with who (1 girl, 1 guy, multiple girls, multiple guys, mixed?), and which body parts are involved and what is happening to those body parts.  I'm going to use "Lick" again as an example as one of the most confusing image types to figure out...  I am almost 3/4.  All I need is the information.  I have been posting for a few days about this...  Please - someone?
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Baal on March 12, 2016, 07:00:53 PM
Probably gonna need aveojoey or Crazy. The best advice is keep in mind that almost everything is from a male perspective especially with things like lick. Lesbian actions are easy to tell, what would a women use? A strapon. Can you eat out dick? No it's a girl only activity. If it was the anus it would be rimming.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 12, 2016, 07:46:58 PM
I guessed Lick was the actor licking a cock and I found a few pictures specifically showing that... but I'm still unsure.  It could be a someone licking the nipples of the actor, for instance.  What about Dildo - is it an alternative masturbation situation or someone else using the dildo on the actor?  Or maybe it's an alternative lesbian situation with a double dildo.  This is why I need more information.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Baal on March 12, 2016, 09:48:49 PM
I guessed Lick was the actor licking a cock and I found a few pictures specifically showing that... but I'm still unsure.  It could be a someone licking the nipples of the actor, for instance.  What about Dildo - is it an alternative masturbation situation or someone else using the dildo on the actor?  Or maybe it's an alternative lesbian situation with a double dildo.  This is why I need more information.

More than likely it's licking penis specifically probably the tip, shaft, and balls. Dildo is probably a girl dildoing herself trying to look naughty. It's would be a great chance to use various machines if someone wanted to innovate. Na, lesbian dildoing would be with lesbian. Lesbian is probably anything that involves vaginas getting close to one another (some people have used kissing as a necessity but it's not what the tag really means.) If it was nipple licking it would have to be with nipple sucking.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 13, 2016, 03:52:04 PM
What about Strapon - is the actor receiving the strapon or using it one another girl (or on a guy)?

Suckballs is actually difficult to find appropriate photos for...
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Baal on March 13, 2016, 04:04:06 PM
What about Strapon - is the actor receiving the strapon or using it one another girl (or on a guy)?

Suckballs is actually difficult to find appropriate photos for...

I'd say using it on a girl.

You could potentially using ball licking if you need to.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 13, 2016, 11:24:38 PM
Thanks, "ball licking" got me a few more pics to use.  :)

I couldn't find one good anime/cartoon pic with a girl holding or near a sign for "Sign", but I figured something out.  I got 1 pic for it that works...

According to what I've read, "Sub" is the same as "BDSM".  "Dom" is an extra category for "dominant female actor" ( or femdom actor), and BDSM is for submissive female actor.  So it sounds like it's not worth even bothering with "Sub" then.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Baal on March 13, 2016, 11:48:31 PM
Thanks, "ball licking" got me a few more pics to use.  :)

I couldn't find one good anime/cartoon pic with a girl holding or near a sign for "Sign", but I figured something out.  I got 1 pic for it that works...

According to what I've read, "Sub" is the same as "BDSM".  "Dom" is an extra category for "dominant female actor" ( or femdom actor), and BDSM is for submissive female actor.  So it sounds like it's not worth even bothering with "Sub" then.

Congrats! Hope you can get rid of some of the 3D looking images and replace them with drawn images. That is if you want to.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 16, 2016, 07:59:01 PM
I am going to offer such a nice assortment of different images for most image types that you can easily just delete the few CG-style ones and still have a great variety.  The highlight are all the appropriate anime-style animated GIFs that I found.  I have also cropped almost all images and photo edited a lot of the images to make them more universal.  Some of them will require the player to use their imagination to complete the image as in many cases I had to crop a lot out to make images universally applicable.  Personally, I don't mind that.  The idea is that these images are designed to be able to fill gaps for unique characters and provide appropriate visuals for non-unique random girl types.  Obviously for unique characters, or girl types that have special features, the intent should be to find special photos for them specifically that make sense.

Frankly, I have a feeling that the hardest to do will be a lot of the pregnant variations.  I don't expect to have a great variety of those and don't plan on trying to find a lot of feasible options for each preg image type - maybe just one or two for most, or a handful for the types that might have a lot of images available on the internet (likely Milk and Sex), but I will see what I can manage...  I haven't started working on the preg-variation images yet though.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 16, 2016, 10:47:50 PM
I'm having trouble with a lot of images trying to determine if they should be "Ecchi" or "Strip".  How would you define either or distinguish one from the other?  My interpretation is that Ecchi is lingerie and other highly provocative clothing or poses, and that Strip is pole dancing and clothing removal.  It gets kind of grey though.... Would a skirt lift be Ecchi or Strip?

In one case, I can see dancing and ass shaking happening during stripping.  In another case I can see it happening trying to just be sexy and tempting (which is what I assume ecchi is).  If a pole is in the picture, it's definitely "Strip"...  If the dancind/ass shaking is at a sink or kitchen counter I would think "Ecchi".  But if there's no other defining scenery... it's difficult.

If a hand is clearly removing panties I would think "Strip".  If fingers are just sticking between clothing and skin, it's more difficult to decide...

If a skirt is being raised it is difficult to decide if it's just a sexy tease or a stripper move...

Etc...

Thoughts?  Keep in mind the descriptions of what happens when either image type is called upon for a scene.  One of my issues is that I'm not very familiar with the game.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Baal on March 16, 2016, 11:05:25 PM
I'm having trouble with a lot of images trying to determine if they should be "Ecchi" or "Strip".  How would you define either or distinguish one from the other?  My interpretation is that Ecchi is lingerie and other highly provocative clothing or poses, and that Strip is pole dancing and clothing removal.  It gets kind of grey though.... Would a skirt lift be Ecchi or Strip?

In one case, I can see dancing and ass shaking happening during stripping.  In another case I can see it happening trying to just be sexy and tempting (which is what I assume ecchi is).  If a pole is in the picture, it's definitely "Strip"...  If the dancind/ass shaking is at a sink or kitchen counter I would think "Ecchi".  But if there's no other defining scenery... it's difficult.

If a hand is clearly removing panties I would think "Strip".  If fingers are just sticking between clothing and skin, it's more difficult to decide...

Strip will usually have a naughty look (could be an act might not.), ecchi she has to enjoy it.

If a skirt is being raised it is difficult to decide if it's just a sexy tease or a stripper move...

Etc...

Thoughts?  Keep in mind the descriptions of what happens when either image type is called upon for a scene.  One of my issues is that I'm not very familiar with the game.

For my standards

Nude=Forced Nudity. Angry, sad, shamed, scared, or embarrassed are usually what I use
Ecchi=Enjoyed Nudity. She has to have a smile, not a smirk or just look happy while nude
Strip=Marketing Nudity. She needs to look like she's trying to lure them on.

If you don't use faces, it probably doesn't matter.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 19, 2016, 09:12:37 AM
OK.  So this is my current take on it.  Please correct me if needed.

So "Nude" is used for when the girl is not wanting to be nude - when she is being forced or unwantedly manipulated into removing clothes.  So that can be used for nude pics with folded arms or crossed legs, or maybe for when someone else's arm is removing clothes?  I'm guessing she doesn't have to be completely naked either, but in the process of having clothes removed.

"Ecchi" is for more intimate-style sexy poses or lewd clothing.  Maybe the background of the scene looks like more of bedroom/kitchen or other more intimate setting (not a stage).  It is either full nudity, partial nudity, or sexy clothing.  The girl is relaxed or into her pose, as she is willingly presenting herself sexy.

"Strip" is for less intimate-style sexy poses or lewd clothing.  It looks like she's performing with a stage or pole in background, etc.  Actively removing clothing or shaking body for viewers.

So you are saying that any of these poses can be nude, partially nude, or even clothed (with implications that clothes are going to come off), but that it's the implied mood of the girl and implied setting mainly that determine the image category more than just whether there is full nudity, partial/sexy clothing, or clothing removal implied?

It's tricky because some pics are difficult to place as they have elements of multiple categories.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Baal on March 19, 2016, 04:57:02 PM
OK.  So this is my current take on it.  Please correct me if needed.

So "Nude" is used for when the girl is not wanting to be nude - when she is being forced or unwantedly manipulated into removing clothes.  So that can be used for nude pics with folded arms or crossed legs, or maybe for when someone else's arm is removing clothes?  I'm guessing she doesn't have to be completely naked either, but in the process of having clothes removed.

"Ecchi" is for more intimate-style sexy poses or lewd clothing.  Maybe the background of the scene looks like more of bedroom/kitchen or other more intimate setting (not a stage).  It is either full nudity, partial nudity, or sexy clothing.  The girl is relaxed or into her pose, as she is willingly presenting herself sexy.

"Strip" is for less intimate-style sexy poses or lewd clothing.  It looks like she's performing with a stage or pole in background, etc.  Actively removing clothing or shaking body for viewers.

So you are saying that any of these poses can be nude, partially nude, or even clothed (with implications that clothes are going to come off), but that it's the implied mood of the girl and implied setting mainly that determine the image category more than just whether there is full nudity, partial/sexy clothing, or clothing removal implied?

It's tricky because some pics are difficult to place as they have elements of multiple categories.

Yep, that's my standard of things others may feel differently. Being as you probably don't want to use too many faces in your pack. I say trying to hide a breast, pelvis, or butt would work for nude. Strip and ecchi can have similar images. I would use strip for more elaborite outfits (stuff you wouldn't see normal girls wear unless they are trying to sell their body), and ecchi for normal looking panties and bras. It becomes up to you to use your best judgement.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on March 27, 2016, 11:37:39 PM
Baal - I'm pretty much done.

I'm going to split the download up into a few smaller pieces:

1.  I'll take all the images for standard pregnant tags and place those in their own download package (~35 MB).
2.  I'll take all the images for tags that are not in the game (ie. Cowgirl, Deepthroat, Dildo, Eatout, Les69ing, Lick, Revcowgirl, Sexdoggy, Strapon, Suckballs, and pregnant varieties of all of the aforementioned) and place those into their own download package (~55 MB).
3.  I'll take what's left and split into a few segments for smaller download packages (~330 MB total).

I'm suggesting that all of it is downloaded, as some great images are within the extended categories.

Do you have any suggestions for packaging this - ie. maximum download file sizes?  So should I be using MEGA to host the files?  Can I send you a private message on here and can you download these first and offer me feedback on them - The total will be approximately 400 MB.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Baal on March 29, 2016, 03:20:24 AM
Baal - I'm pretty much done.

I'm going to split the download up into a few smaller pieces:

1.  I'll take all the images for standard pregnant tags and place those in their own download package (~35 MB).
2.  I'll take all the images for tags that are not in the game (ie. Cowgirl, Deepthroat, Dildo, Eatout, Les69ing, Lick, Revcowgirl, Sexdoggy, Strapon, Suckballs, and pregnant varieties of all of the aforementioned) and place those into their own download package (~55 MB).
3.  I'll take what's left and split into a few segments for smaller download packages (~330 MB total).

I'm suggesting that all of it is downloaded, as some great images are within the extended categories.

Do you have any suggestions for packaging this - ie. maximum download file sizes?  So should I be using MEGA to host the files?  Can I send you a private message on here and can you download these first and offer me feedback on them - The total will be approximately 400 MB.

Na, 400 MB is fine for me, others might benefit from a smaller package.  I use Mega and haven't have any issues. I'd make a thread for it, but don't expect criticism.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: aevojoey on April 02, 2016, 01:37:47 AM
Some of them I don't even know what exactly they are for.
Many of the new image types were added by request so you may need to search the forums for who requested it and ask them.
Most are not in the game but can be accessed through scripts.
I will update the  Image Names that the game will recognize (http://www.pinkpetal.org/index.php?topic=3446.msg27877#msg27877) page when I have time.
Title: Re: If you need images
Post by: Monty52 on April 18, 2016, 08:27:22 PM
I still have plans for that defaultimages pack!

Sorry, I have been away for a few weeks.  I must have picked up some kind of malware from one of the hundreds of sites I skimmed through while browsing all over the internet looking for girl pics for that defaultimages pack that I have been putting together.  I started getting very strange behavior, including screen freezings/blue screens/random reboots.  If it wasn't malware then it was some kind of file corruption.  Either way, it was seriously stressful and irritating to experience and deal with.  As such my computer has been in a state or reinstallation and recovery for the past few weeks.  The Windows Update process is a HUGE downer/pain-in-the-ass.  Suffice it to say that I haven't focused on finishing off the pack during that period of time.

Now that I'm back in business I will finish off the pack.  While I can rcurrently release something very nice, I'd like to tweak it a bit more.  You see, most of the time that I worked on the pack I was using extremely thorough standard search engine image searches in order locate pics.  Near the end of my searching, I realized that some of the recommended sites in this thread are actually better to use.  So now that I have way more images to select from while browsing pics, I'd like to spend some more time adding to and modifying the pack even further to make it even more comprehensive than it currently is.

OK, thank you aevojoey.  I think that updating the image name page with some better descriptions of what kinds of scenes the tags are used for will help out image pack creators.