Jump to:, For sure the most frequently asked question in our is 'Where are the card images?' This is a small tutorial answering to all card images related questions regarding MTG Studio. • Is MTG Studio shipped with card images? • Where to get the images from? • How the images are named? • What is the difference between full and cropped images? • Where to put the downloaded images?

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• Which formats are supported? • Alternative sources of images? • Additional Questions? Is MTG Studio shipped with card images? MTG Studio is not distributed with card images.

Here are the main reasons why: • All individual cards are protected under trademark and copyright laws, including art elements and the card backs. The copyright belongs to Wizards of the Coast and the respective artists. The use of this art and images requires the express permission from Wizards of the Coast.

Without this permission, scanning and posting and otherwise distributing these images violates the law. • All full scans with 312x446 pixels high quality jpegs are approximately 700 MB which will make MTG Studio almost impsosible to download from a web site. • Anyway, if the installation program was shipped with all card images the outgoing traffic of our web server will increase so much that we will be forced to increase the price of MTG Studio nearly 5 times. (Currently only $19.95). Where to get the images from? You can download the card images from various Internet sources: - Almost any card from any edition available in extra high quality (312x445 pixels) - Lots of High Quality promo scans - Full and cropped images from almost any edition.

- be sure to check out forum thread where lots of external sources are mentioned. NOTE: Have in mind that 'The use of this art and images requires the express permission from Wizards of the Coast. Without this permission, scanning and posting and otherwise distributing these images violates the law.' How the images are named? The valid file name must include only standard English lowercase and upper case ASCII symbols. Example: Fork → Fork.full.jpg Demonic Tutor → Demonic Turor.full.jpg Due to restriction of the allowed symbols for valid file name forming on Windows and Linux platforms some images require different filename from the real name of the card. Invalid symbols are: /: *?

How to handle those symbols? • Replace all occurrences of / (slash) and (back-slash) in the card name with - (dash) Example: Fire/Ice → Fire-Ice.full.jpg • Skip all occurrences of: (column), ' (quotes),?

(question mark), * (asterisk), and (vertical line) in the card name Example: Circle of Protection: Red → Circle of Protection Red.full.jpg Pang Tong 'Young Phoenix' → Pang Tong Young Phoenix.full.jpg Question Elemental? → Question Elemental.full.jpg • Some cards contain specific symbols such as, (coma) ' (apostrophe)!

(exclamation mark) ®. These symbols are valid within the file name and must be typed exactly as they are printed on the card. Example: Mine, Mine, Mine! → Mine, Mine, Mine!full.jpg The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service.full.jpg IV. What is the difference between full and cropped images?

Full images - full card images including the card border and all the card characteristics such as card name, type line, power, toughness, etc. Click to see an example of a full card image. The file extension for full images must be *.full.jpg in order MTG Studio to recognize them. (Example: The full image of the card 'Head to Head' from Unhinged™ must be saved as with filename 'Head to Head.full.jpg' Cropped Images - cropped images are scans of only the card art image in the middle of the card. Click to see an example of a cropped image of the card 'Head to Head' from Unhinged™ edition. Cropped images are saved with *.jpg extension. (Example: The cropped image of the card 'Head to Head' from Unhinged™ must be saved as with filename 'Head to Head.jpg' NOTE: MTG Studio currently supports only full images (those with extension *.full.jpg).