Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-35455126-20190806204017/@comment-4010415-20190807001618

Glitchee123z wrote: Those are exactly what i’m talking about. Why are they unused again? Because

1. We don't have those for everyone, so it would lead to a jarring lack of consistency.

2. The moment the main characters change battle outfits again (like, in Volume 7), we're gonna be right back to using cropped screenshots.

I decided to quickly make an example of how turning screenshots into images with transparent backgrounds isn't always the best idea, using Neo's current infobox pic. Keep in mind that this is roughly done, since the hand-drawn selection tool only let me do straight lines at a time, and I didn't feel like cleaning up the lines. Plus, this image features horrible guesstimates of where the trees end and Neo begins.

It looks a bit odd with the nighttime lighting, and the environment around Neo paired with the color of the brown half of her hair posed a challenge where it was hard to determine where the edges of her hair were.

With Team RWBY, we're fortunate enough to have images with good lighting that wouldn't look too terrible with transparent backgrounds, but there are other characters who we were not so fortunate with.

Not to mention that it is kind of a pain to remove the background. I had to use the hand-drawn selection tool to place points around Neo a little at a time with straight lines. The only free art program that I know of right now that actually has this tool is GIMP, which is not exactly a user-friendly program, especially with the way it's been glitching on me, not letting me deselect things sometimes. From there, I had to copy the selected Neo and paste her into Paint.NET, save the image, reopen it in GIMP, select the background pieces between her arms and her body, remove those, copy the entire image, and paste it into Paint.NET again, and then save it as a png image because GIMP wouldn't let me save it as a png. I'm not sure any of the file formats that it would let me save it as could be uploaded to the wiki. So... yeah... big pain in the ass.