• 1. Don't ever use JPGs for text! Use PNG instead, if it has to be pixel-grafics at all. SVG would be preferable, if one could.
  2. Don't overcompress JPGs. Avoid typical (non-infectuous) JPEGitis!
  3. Don't be boring.
  • Same file is, on the other hand, an example for following hints:
  1. Use JPGs for photographs: Landscapes, as easily can be seen here, do pretty well.
  2. Be encouraged to do your own thing and to present it to the world.
  3. Show your point of view.
  4. Try to be funnier than those oldies - sometimes, at least. That would not do harm to the world.
     

• This elaborate Piece of Art may be used for tracking test edits.
• It uses common sense.
• As soon as it's author will be able to cope with, it might use CommonSense as well.

On User Talk:IP., beloved admin :Bdk: und The.Perfect.Beginner talk or talked about sense, nonsense and the usefulness of such pictures as well as about the importance of recently tried improvements (in German).