Commons:Graphic Lab

The Graphic Lab helps improve all graphical content used by Wikimedia projects stored on the Wikimedia Commons by picture retouching.

They work to improve the quality and clarity of images that are proposed to them by the community. This work most often involves extracting key elements from photos, removing distracting elements, and improving the general appearance of images. Creation and editing of drawings, diagrams and maps are also within the scope of this project if the requests are clear and the work is feasible.

The Graphic Lab and the Graphics village pump aim to transform Commons from an uploaders' community to a true working graphist community, based on the four graphic skills and interests categories.

Feel free to request image improvements. Active contributors are also really needed to lead the project too. We need all this to start!

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  Whitening or cleaning the background
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  Removal of objects and colour improvement
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  Image restoration
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  Vector graphics

For a better view of the capabilities of the Graphics Workshop, see examples of prior work.

Requests for image improvement are placed on one of the available workshops. Once on that page, you may click the "request" link located besides the workshop link. Fill in the template and save the page. This will add the request to the chosen workshop. You may also visit the workshop page and follow the manual procedures. A Wikigraphist will sign up for the work, perform the requested actions, and, after approval, replace the original image with the improved one.

All help is welcome!

When requesting work to be done, please do so in the right place:

• Illustration workshop: Creation and editing of drawings, diagrams, and vector images.
• Map workshop: For creation and editing of maps and cartography work (translations, coloration from data, etc.)
• Photography workshop: For improvement of photographs, including restorations of historic material.
• Video and sound workshop: For converting and improving sound and video quality on Commons.

Graphists who volunteer to improve images (add your name):

• Often active: Alex:D (talk · contribs), Amada44 (talk · contribs), Orionist (talk · contribs), PawełMM (talk · contribs), Quibik (talk · contribs), Yjenith (talk · contribs), Grunpfnul (talk · contribs), Berkaysnklf (talk · contribs), CharlieTheCabbie (talk · contribs), Ananth subray (talk · contribs), Rickterto (talk · contribs), Marajozkee (talk · contribs), KCVelaga (talk · contribs), Tris T7 (talk · contribs), Sushant Savla (talk · contribs), 大诺史 (talk · contribs), Path slopu (talk · contribs), Vulphere (talk · contribs), Bop34 (talk · contribs), nancystodd (talk · contribs), Turtle-bienhoa (talk · contribs), DigitalDasein (talk · contribs) and Feitidede (talk · contribs)
• Less active: Craigjwjr (talk · contribs), mikehadd12 (talk · contribs), Mycotic (talk · contribs), Alex T. (talk · contribs), Chech Explorer (talk · contribs), Editor at Large (talk · contribs), Greyskull (talk · contribs), Ivan Akira (talk · contribs), Jackl (talk · contribs), Jak (talk · contribs), JK+ontic (talk · contribs), Mmxx (talk · contribs), Morgan_Phoenix (talk · contribs), Officialwikiwriter (talk · contribs), Rohith goura (talk · contribs), Vanderdecken (talk · contribs), Nareign (talk · contribs), Gauravjuvekar (talk · contribs), Liriodendron777 (talk · contribs), Dimitri Hon (talk · contribs), philg88 (talk · contribs), Eitan96 (talk · contribs), HaeKN (talk · contribs), Ivi104 (talk · contribs), Swapnil1101 (talk · contribs), Kwameghana (talk · contribs), Xerxes2k (talk · contribs), Tim D. Williamson (talk · contribs), Blue Sonic (talk · contribs), Lệ Xuân (talk · contribs), Sriveenkat (talk · contribs), Listz3 (talk · contribs), galejandro2007 (talk · contribs) and Jooja (talk · contribs)

See also the list of Active Wikigraphists

Some Wikipedias have their own graphic labs:

• ar: ورشة الصُور
• bn: অঙ্কন ঘর
• de: Grafikwerkstatt
• en: Graphic Lab
• es: Taller gráfico
• fr: Atelier graphique
• he: סדנה לגרפיקה
• it: Laboratorio grafico
• lb: Billeratelier
• ru: Графическая мастерская
• tr: Grafik Laboratuvarı

• {{User Wikigraphist}} – userbox for Wikigraphists;
• {{Graphic Lab}} – promotion-box for requested images (configurable for local projects);

• You can see a complete list of all cleanup templates at Commons: Templates #Maintenance.

• {{Commons:Graphic Lab/Ad}} - Graphic Lab ad template.

• Wikimedia Commons: Upload page, place to share your images with Wikipedia (need to be logged in).

Communities of users with Graphics Abilities on Commons:

• Bitmap graphics editors
• Animation editors
• Vector graphics editors
• Commons photographers