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== Help : I don't understand the graphics workflow ==

I have been reading about your need for people who are able to process photos and diagrams and would like to offer my skills. I've looked at the 'images to improve' page and still can't see how the work-flow is supposed to work. There are instructions for people to request an image edit but I can't see how a prospective artist can 'sign up' for doing a specific job. If I just download and edit an image, then upload it to the commons, how does the system know about it? Surely you don't want people to overwrite files? is there a version control system to recover from someone corrupting a graphic?

What is to stop multiple people working on the same image? or for that matter a whole series of people tweaking the same image - possibly making it worse?

What exactly does 'Stale' mean - does it imply that a particular graphic artist is stumpped? if so, is that a green light for anybody else to have a go?

Please can somebody direct me to a tutorial with step by step instructions on how to sign up for a job, the correct way to download the image and the mechanism for linking the edited file with the original article. I've looked in vain for any pages which explain this. I am keen to help but am frustrated by the user hostile interface! If such information exists, then perhaps it would be a good idea for a link to be provided on the 'images to improve' page. I was directed to the 'images to improve' page in the hope that I could begin work immediately but I'm afraid I've hit a brick wall. I wonder how many other graphics specialists have been turned away from helping for the want of a well written tutorial.[[User:Thepixelator|Thepixelator]] ([[User talk:Thepixelator|talk]]) 14:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)