[chrissix666]

Guidelines and "a kind of small conventions" ...
...if you complete your database with missing director thumbs

So that everything looks uniform, here are a few things to consider:

Naming of thumbnails:

• The filenames are generally aligned without exception only to what is set in TheMovieDB.
  
• The filename of the thumbs must be one to one the same as in your kodi. This, in turn, is one to one equal to the name on TheMovieDB
  
• Some directors also have aka names. Please also make a copy of the aka name. TheMovieDB exchanges sometimes the main name with the aka names. This is especially important for people who rarely rescrape their Kodi (after years) or even for people who use NFO's and the data there (maybe for many years) is the same.
  
• Most important: Just test it out in Kodi, when you see a Thumb, the naming is right!
  

Source of thumbnails:

• Always use, no matter how bad the thumb may look, always use the full sized backdrop on TheMovieDB
  
• Just download and rename the full sized TheMovieDB thumb image, no more else needed, aspect ratio and all is fine
  

Fallback if no thumbnails is on TheMovieDB:

We then have to manually search for a thumb and then adapt the image to the TheMovieDB conventions.

• Use as first fallback IMDB if there is a usable director thumbnail aviable.
  
• Use as second fallback simple the Google picture search.
  

Best quality on Google search with hugde DB you get in results is when "gstatic.com" in the link
Also a hudge DB with less quality is when "mubi.com" in the link
Just a recommendation, you can use any fallback source that seems suitable!

When you have found a thumb, download it (not the preview pic, take the full sized)

• Crop it always to aspect ratio 2:3 aka 10:15, always always! (TheMovieDB images are also all the same)
  
• Try to center the face/head, just about, do not be too picky there.
  
• Max image resolution 1000x1500, min image resolution does not matter.
  
• Be sure that extension is .jpg (not .jpeg or other) else convert it to .jpg
  

Fallback if not a single thumbnail  is on the whole web:

It depends very much on what kind of movies from which directors one have. On my side, my DB is very mixed and in only 1.2% of the cases I really did not find a picture.
I'm pretty sure you also will find in 98% of cases a thumb, sometimes you have to search a bit deeper (max 1 min)
If the case really does happen, and really no thumb is available, then we will also not leave it blank. We use the TheMovieDB fallback thumb.

But why? 2 reasons:

• Not all skins or their views are well enough coded to do so if there is no thumb that simply displays it blank or a skin coded fallback image. It may be the case with some skins or their views that if there is no thumb, the last one that has been displayed is displayed.
  
• It is a kind of indicator that someone has already searched intensively for the thumb, but simply did not find one. This saves double work.
  

There is a copy of the TheMovieDB fallback thumb called "nothumb.jpg" in the resource addon. Please use it sparingly. This:


That was it 

Great fun on using the addon!