Category talk:Illustrations

Should screenshots be a subcategory of this? It is not clear to me how "illustration" is defined, apart from not being a photo. What about maps? ~ Lhynard (talk) 19:00, April 19, 2016 (UTC)


 * The way I've been categorizing things, Illustrations are on the same level as Maps, Photographs, and Screenshots. However, very occasionally they overlap. Anything that is drawn, whether traditionally or digitally, is Illustration (with the exception of maps. Maps are separate for the sake of distinguishing them from other types of image. This was discussed in the Images of PLACENAME / Maps of PLACENAME discussion.). Anything that comes from a game is Screenshot. Character portraits are drawn (as opposed to rendered, I suppose) but are also taken from a game. (But if that is confusing, I'm not against taking the Screenshot category off of character portraits -- you can technically find the original image and not take a screen-grab, right?). Other instances where those categories overlap would be File:Cosmology.jpg and File:Abyss_Map.jpg, which are both Maps but also include visual depictions of places and are therefore Illustrations as well. —Coswig (talk) 04:26, April 20, 2016 (UTC)


 * Some video game images aren't technically screenshots. Assets extracted directly from game files, for example. --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 08:35, April 20, 2016 (UTC)


 * "Digital images" or "Video game images" might be more general, then. — BadCatMan (talk) 08:39, April 20, 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the clarification. ~ Lhynard (talk) 17:28, April 26, 2016 (UTC)