axel
CarDriver3838
axel
Added shadow, reduced noise
I mean no harm when I say this, but why do you feel the need to do this all of a sudden? It appears rather petty, and appears to serve no real purpose, apart from making people angry. Sorry if I sound rude, but I'm genuinely curious.
I have been contributing to Platesmania/Avto-nomer since 2011 (with a break). And improving pictures is what many of us used to do in comments on dark, blurry or tilted photos. The authors, believe it or not, thanked for the improvement of their original photographs. I, as you noticed, wrote what exactly I did to the photo, it's two or three clicks, so that the author and other contributirs do a similar thing next time before uploading their images. One more time, please look at other countries galleries on platesmania. Most of them contain mainly good pictures. Why should the US gallery rank last in quality?
In my opinion, the US has some of the worst quality in the site, and the majority of it is contained to a handful of users. Go in and compare it to the quality found in the RUS gallery or UK and the difference is vast. In my opinion, until we get more US moderators or the current moderators become more strict with quality guidelines (and delete the crap photos), this will not change. There are plenty of worse examples than this photo including photos that are too blurry, uploaded at weird angles, etc.
Axel, I think you make a great point.