As you may or may not know, over the past few months I've scanned (or rescanned) almost every single Dominion card to get a nice, high-quality image for the wiki, which in turn comes over to the forums (such as on QVist's rankings). And while I've been striving for high resolution and high quality, physically scanning the cards will simply never be perfect. The cards will always be slightly misaligned from the vertical, and the physical copies even vary in how they color their borders, which is particularly noticeable on Actions, especially with the Promos. On top of that, no matter how I fiddle with the color levels, some card art will always be too dark or too washed out, so that something visible to the eye will not come out in the scan.
On the other hand, taking the digital card representations from Dominion Online has none of these problems. They are guaranteed to be perfectly aligned, to have card art exactly as the artist intended, and to have borders that are all completely consistent with one another. However, it does have its own drawbacks, which is why I'm posting this poll, to get the community's opinion. The digital cards do not have a copyright date or an artist attribution - this is the main thing. In addition, they will not have as high a resolution as any physical scan. Also, they definitely look like they've come off of a computer, rather than being a physical card. That's not to say they look bad, just different. Finally, there is a lot of resentment toward MF right now, and switching over completely to digital cards without warning (Surprise!) might piss some people off, as they might read it as encroachment on their I dunno, something.
Anyway, thought I'd ask. Please let me know.
As a comparison, here is Soothsayer as a physical scan, and as a digital version:
P.S. It's far easier for me to just rip these pictures off of Dominion Online than it is for me to scan, clean up, de-moire, and adjust the color levels of physical cards.
