2018 Topps Now MLS Soccer Forum

If you're downloading card images for this set from the Topps website, you'll discover that Topps puts the card images in the middle of big square. If you're doing a bunch of these at once, it'll be very tedious to crop them one by one. So I wrote a little script for doing it for the landscape cards. If you have ImageMagick installed, you can run this bash script to perfectly crop all the JPGs in the current directory:

for f in *.jpg; do convert -crop 1770x1264+114+368 $f "crop-"$f; done

If you have any portrait-oriented cards, this won't work, but I suspect you can just swap the width and height numbers easily enough. Anyway, just figured I'd save this script somewhere -- I doubt anyone besides myself will bother to use it but ya never know.

If you're downloading the images for your own personal use, fine. If you're downloading images from the Topps site for uploading here, stop.

Not all of the images accurately depict the actual images used on the printed cards. We only want actual images of the cards on here.

Thank you.

I understand the worry, but in this case, I've scrutinized the real cards and the digital images. There is literally no difference between the digital and physical versions (or at least, none that is distinguishable at 250x350 pixels). You can see for yourself by just comparing the official images to the photos in eBay listings.

Given that these cards have such short print runs, we wouldn't be able to get real scans of most of these cards. It seems silly to me to have no images for these cards when we have pixel perfect images of what these cards look like.

This practice is only acceptible if you scrutinize each image with an actual printed card. There have been way too many times where Topps has changed text on the cards from the images they put online (and there have even been cases of them changing the image before printing). Please note that if a single discrepancy is found, that has usually led Admin to removing all images uploaded by that particular user for that set without further review. Accuracy is paramount over "having some image" on here. All it takes is there to be one that isn't the same, and the credibility of the TCDB goes out the window, hence Admin's (and my) strong reaction to the wrong images.

Again, if you're going to take mock-up images from a company's web site, please verify with an actual printed card BEFORE posting it here. Please do not post the images here before the cards are released (or even printed!).

Alright I won't upload any more, sorry.