Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Idi Amin

Idi Amin

Original - Idi Amin, ruler of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Caricature by Edmund S. Valtman.

Reason

Edmund S. Valtman was a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist who donated a portion of his work to the public domain. This example is a caricature of Idi Amin, Ugandan military dictator and the president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Restored version of File:Idi Amin caricature.jpg. Scanned from original artist's sketch; pencil lines made by the artist before inking have been retained (most visible at chin and shoulders).

Articles this image appears in

Edmund S. Valtman, Idi Amin

Creator

Edmund S. Valtman

• Support as nominator --Durova^Charge! 20:39, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
• Support Good EV. I could id the image without reading the caption. --Muhammad(talk) 05:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support - great caricature, excellent value. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 04:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support but I feel the white balance is a little blue. Anyone else, or would that be my laptop? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
  • On my system the white balance appears different between Photoshop, Commons, and en:wiki for this image. Have had all three windows open at the same time side by side, and can't explain the discrepancy. That's why I tweaked and reuploaded so many times. Durova^Charge! 19:11, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

We use a pale blue background for non-mainspace pages, in Photoshop it's surrounded by grey and I think Commons is white. The perception of color is dependent on the surrounding colors. MER-C 02:30, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to try another edit if you can achieve a better balance. The uncompressed TIFF file is linked from the image hosting page. Durova^Charge! 17:14, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

• Support Good EV. Makeemlighter (talk) 17:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support Does Valtman have any similar sketches of Robert Mugabe? Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 01:53, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Idi Amin caricature2.jpg MER-C 07:53, 7 April 2009 (UTC)