Recent comments in /f/InternetIsBeautiful

s_end_nudes t1_j9baken wrote

This is the advice it gave me.

1/10 rating for a thumbnail with a 6.8% CTR & 43.9% average % viewed over 2 years.

Add expressive faces to the thumbnail. (It had 2 impossibly expressive faces)

The image needs to have good contrast and saturation in the colors (huge red & green highlights against a more dull BG)

Add short, bold and contrasted text on the thumbnail ( The text was "PROS" and CONS")

It's usually better to limit the number of elements in the thumbnail to a handful to make them more visible and eye-catchy (There was 2 people, a background image, 2 words, and a title.)

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SpinCharm t1_j99rcn8 wrote

It actually only does anything of significance to faces. Bodies, backgrounds, sky etc are mostly just blurred or unsharpened. So it’s not looking to recognize a tree then improve it with a much clearer tree. But if it finds a face it can make assumptions about the eyes and replace them with supposedly exactly the same eyes that are much sharper.

Unfortunately the combination of “improving” the eyes, nose, ears, chin, and hair results in something that really isn’t the same person. But to a stranger, it would look like an improvement as they’d have no baseline expectations on what the person actually looks like.

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