Fixing Colors on image and uploading?

Is it alright for someone to upload a simple recolor of an image if it looks off?

I'm referring specifically to post #819576

It looks rather whited out. It is how the artist apparently uploaded it, but to me it looks like the opacity of the colors was accidentally lowered or something. IMO, the altered version I'd like to upload (alteration done by simply using photoshop to 'multiply' a copy of the image over its original version) looks much more natural, and less like faded artbook scan. The hair colors, for example, would look more like the other examples of the character

Unofficial alterations are frowned upon.

So I should just dump the idea then? I mean, the solution is easy enough for someone with access to photoshop to fix in a few seconds anyway.

I think the idea is that if we allow people to start with color edits and such, even if it's to improve a scan, it might open the gates to all sorts of modifications to artist's works, which is seriously a bad idea. We don't allow unofficial uncensoring and photoshopping for a reason.

Mysterio006 said:
We don't allow unofficial uncensoring and photoshopping for a reason.

I wondered about this.

General: decensored
Mutually exclusive with the photoshop tag.

Something isn't right about these 19 pages decensored photoshop or the decensored wiki.

Technically, a scan will never quite faithfully reproduce a printed image. Colors, contrast, grayscale levels... you can never get it just right. Even the subtractive colorspace of printing and the additive colorspace of computer screens don't quite map to each other.

Consequently, because the intrinsic alterations of scanning are clearly acceptable on Danbooru, an edit that undoes some of these alterations should be at least as acceptable as the scan was in the first place.

The difficulty then arises in judging whether such an edit is actually an improvement, or is making it worse. To really judge that, you'd need to have both the printed original and its digital representations, to be able to compare them properly.

So in theory, while a good edit would clearly be superior to the raw scan (and nearly all scans are edited in some way anyway), in practise it'll be difficult to decide which edits are good and which edits are bad. Just submitting a bunch of tries and hoping the best one will get accepted would create too much noise. There would need to be some proving grounds before attempting a submission, for this sort of editing to be workable here.

Reasonable photoshopping of scans is allowed, obviously. What we don't want is people going and "improving" an artist's work. Even if yes, sometimes it does result in a better image, thats not what we're here for.

What Fence and piespy said. All scans are well, scanned. They're second-hand in a different way from a jpg sent from site to site (homepage to pixiv to here, whatever).

So if someone can clean up a Megami scan or something, in theory it's okay - though your efforts will fit in better at http://oreno.imouto.org/ (formerly moe.imouto) where they do that stuff all the time.

But don't make a habit of it, and don't bother unless 1) the original scan was really bad and 2) you're incredibly good.

As for any other photoshopping edits of regular non-scanned images, NONONO.