

The best resource for suitable HQ card scans is our own CCGHQ Picture Forum. This makes card scans available from many of the MTG Card Collector/List web sites too small to produce reasonable quality crops for use within the game.

Its worth pointing out that using an original cropped image much smaller than 288x232 to start with will result in visible compression artefacts when converted and viewed within the game. (The author of these guidelines has no affiliation to XnView whatsoever… apart from it being an excellent free program.) :)

The following parameters can be cut and pasted into a text editor and saved as an XnView.xbs script file to aid the conversion setup. This is purely to maintain the quality consistency of the images in the CardArt folders, whilst keeping the jpg files to a reasonable file size. MIDDLE-EARTH, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Middle-earth Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc.Regardless of the program used to do any editing a card scan may require (cropping, border removal, color correction, shadow/highlight balance, etc.) we ask that any edited card art should be resized to 288x232 with a final JPEG quality output setting of ‘60’ using Photoshop, or '91' using XnView. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES and the names of the characters, items, events and places therein are trademarks of The Saul Zaentz Company d/b/a Middle-earth Enterprises under license to New Line Productions, Inc. GW, Games Workshop, Citadel, White Dwarf, Space Marine, 40K, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, the ‘Aquila’ Double-headed Eagle logo, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, Battletome, Stormcast Eternals, and all associated logos, illustrations, images, names, creatures, races, vehicles, locations, weapons, characters, and the distinctive likenesses thereof, are either ® or ™, and/or © Games Workshop Limited, variably registered around the world.
