You may see genres listed within the galleries. We are currently working on these. thanks tammy

Asking all members who have images in the gallery to please edit your images by going to your thumbs and clicking edit.... please select the genre that best fits each image. This will populate the genre sections for all to view. We still have some areas within the gallery to change, but this should not interfer with your editing. thanks tammy

Can a whats new be added to the drop downs. I visit daily and with whats new, it gives me a look at all generes that been posted overnight in the various gallerys. I Miss the way it was. :o( I am sure what is being done is for best interest of Renderosity and it's members.

What is "household" as a genre???

You can still see "what's new"...it's the hyperlink beside Sort by. You can also apply a software and/or category and then ask for "what's new". No drop down is needed for that.

What about animals that aren't pets???? Where do they go???

we used the genres associated with the homepage selection and will be better organizing the genres in a few. still working on this so by the end of the day...we should have these taken care of. thanks tammy

Thanks. I guess I'm a little cranky because I am going to have trouble putting most of my graphics in genre categories to begin with. I do appreciate the effort.

And where do the Faeries go? I don't like to see my lil faeries be buried under NVITWS.

Yeah, it is something members wanted but at the same time the gallery is so big that there is some work on part of the member to get those images in those genres. so if you have a large gallery, i guess it will feel like work. if only i could wiggle my nose and place all the images in the appropriate places. :) dialyn, what genres need to be added so that your images would apply?

Yup, think ANIMALS fits better than PETS. ;) Otherwise, Wild animals go in NATURE, which could be anything...?

ok, changed pets to animals. thanks tammy

Cool! Thanks Tammy!

no extra clicks needed other than choosing the topic or genre.

in order to keep all the areas that we currently have the word topic is used in place of software. also we added a hobbyist topic since this was being requested in community improvement. thanks tammy

Could I maybe beg for a "Celebrities" and/or "Nautical" section. You had nautical in there, but you pulled it. I have 3 images that don't really fit any other theme.

Maybe some definition of the categories might help keep things set. I started to put some of my children's art under children only to find it next to a guy holding a dead child in his hands (which I have nothing against the image at all, just not sure what the category means I guess), so they got moved to film since they are mostly from animated films.

Thanks for the genre categories. They are really cool BTW...

I'm doing my happy dance about the hobbyist category. I need some time but I'm moving all my graphics there. I just hope people use it so it stays around. It is a nice in between place between the beginner and the advanced software galleries for those of us who are beyond beginner but not technically or artistically advanced. Happy, happy, happy.

ok, i added nautical. not sure about celebrities...let me check on this for any copyright issues. added Faeries. we will be combining children with people. not sure about household will ask. thanks tammy

I see your point there Tammy about celebrities. Maybe just add TV to Film and that would cover it.

Amd maybe a Music category for people who do images for CD covers, pictures of bands or the music industry in general (a render of a blues singer comes to mind most recently).

ok, getting Film renamed to Film/TV. added music. don't want to add too many more genres until we have members moving them and seeing what it looks like. thinking household should be interior. renaming this. thanks tammy

I'm sure as people use the categories and think more about how their graphics fit here and there that you'll be able to refine them. This is a nice step forward ... may help people find graphics that they want to look at instead of having to weed through so many that they have no interest in. I'm really glad to see it. :)

thanks.

Dear Tammy, just a question and not a nag! I have just graded 24 images from my gallery but only 6 are showing up in the selection process. Roughly how long should the updating take before I think about trying again? It was a tough call figuring out where my work stood in the scheme of things so thanks for an interesting hour! I agree with dialyn, it is a very useful new set of options. Regards. Brendan.

Brendan, They are probably showing up in all that was selected. Remember the what's new displays the last 30 days only. If you go to the appropriate areas... Topic 2D and Genre Illustration.. you will not see this in the what's new but will see this in all the other sorting options. There is no update lag...it should move them when you select the genre and save it. thanks tammy

Thanks for the Faeries :-)

I always suspected I was the slow one! and here is the proof. Many thanks Tammy. Brendan.

welcome puntomaus. brendan - your not slow... we are ... but we are working on this. : )

Would it be possible to allow multiple choices for the categories both for viewing and uploading? Maybe a list of the categories with checkboxes that one could check on and off. This would enable us to view multiple categories at the same time. Also, if somebody feels that his/her image would not neatly fit inside one category, then all the categories that would apply to the image could be checked. The categories will be very useful for filtering out images one is not interested in; thank you. Sue

I'm surprised that nobody seems to have much of a problem with this change. Many of my images don't fit into any one "genre," nor did I have such a narrow conception in mind when creating them. It's my impression that most members don't visit the Community Improvement forum. I visit Renderosity approx. 6 days a week and don't remember seeing any mention of this change in any of the forums I do visit, including this one (sorry if I'm wrong about that...I missed it if discussion did take place here.) Well, I'll give it my best shot and not complain overmuch, since I'm pro-Renderosity and appreciate the hosting of our images. Expecting them to fall into line with "genres" invented by someone else strikes me as absurd, though.

We will be working more on our search feature soon. At this time, we have decided to have one topic/genre with one image. The volume of the gallery presents a unique situation if we allow multiple selections for each image. Our goal was to release genres since our members have been requesting this for some time and see how this works going forward. thanks tammy

You don't have to choose a genre. You could just choose a gallery. Some people wanted a genre so they could avoid viewing graphics they had no interest in. If you only want to see fantasy art, this way you can move directly to that section. I do agree that it is difficult to find one genre for all graphics but I see this as the first step and, with any luck, there will be further refinements as time goes on. I like Sue's idea very much.

Sorry, cross posted with Tammy.

One category that I haven't seen suggested is "Portrait"; there are tons of images that would fit into this category. Apologies if it's been mentioned and I missed it.

An alternative to "Portrait" could be "Characters" or "Figure studies"...

xoconostle - we have received a lot of feedback on desiring genres. i alerted everyone that is was coming .. i think i said within a week in the gallery update thread. it is not mandatory to select a genre when uploading an image...that is really up to you if you want it listed in a genre or not. : )

BTW: Despite the potential diffuculty that many will have trying to shoehorn a render into one-and-only-one genre, I think it's a great idea.

Figure Studies has been added.

I like the improvement but I'd really like to be able to classifiy things under more than one genre. Lots of my stuff belongs in both humor and sci-fi for example.

Portraits are different than Figure Studies actually. Portraits are head/shoulder shots generally (most of which are clothed) while Figure Studies are for full body artistic nudes. While I don't have anything against nudes, I really don't think that these should be grouped together.

I'm a little concerned with the Fantasy category's current trend. It seems as though most of the images placed there today are far more pinup, than Fantasy (if you consider fantasy to be fantastical creatures/circumstances and not male fantasy). I also noticed that the Science Fiction category has been able to hold topic. So I was wondering if we can get a Mythical Creature category that would at least allow artists that deal strictly in the magical side of the fantasy world, rather than the sexual side, to have a place to put their images. And yes, I realize that it would include demonesses and mermaids, but at least they would be on topic in such a category. Again, it's not the nudity, it's the subject...

PS: This is not hypocritical of what I said before in the thread about the initial request for groups. I have no fault with a pinup that at least has a mythical creature, takes place in a mythical world, etc, but most of the ones posted in fantasy today don't even seem to have this qualification.

ok, i added portraits and removed figure studies because this could go under people at this time. thanks tammy

This is a feature that I appreciate enormously, thanks for adding it. Not quite sure though if photography should be a genre, it's already listed as a topic.

thanks roobol we are looking into the photography listing as well. :)

Any word on Mythical Creatures?

Thanks by the way for really listening to everyone's suggestions...It's good to see the community work together...

can i just list this as creatures?

maybe Myths would be better.... looking at the genres... creatures could fit in scifi, horror, humour, space etc...

That's kinda why I liked Mythical Creatures, because it keeps to the fantasy genre, but given a choice I'd rather see Creatures. Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror kinda share the same genre a bit, so I think Creatures would cover it better. Myth could be misconstrued as Gods and Goddesses which would bring us back to the reason for the extra category.

Tammy - I don't envy you your job sorting through all these categories. Too bad it's not as easy as "people, places, and things," but life is never that simple.

I have one that I don't think is listed, medieval Which I think would be different than historical? :) ladynimue