At what point is it appropriate to add color_theme tags to a post?

My question stems from recently seeing color_theme tags added to posts, looking at which, you'd struggle to say that there's a deliberate artistic choice to theme them after a single color as they actually don't contain much of that color, such as post #6779771, post #6776670, post #3393346, post #6732311, post #6409152, post #6748744, post #6764453, post #6765059, post #2301133 and post #3925928. There are way too many examples to list them all here, honestly.

I think artworks count as color-themed when a color takes up the majority of an image, preferably something like 60-70%, and optionally we can see other techniques that the artist has gone out of their way to use, like shading and lightning of a single color, changing the subject's palette to a given color, surrounding it with a matching background, adding some objects of that color, and so on. I'm not trying to say that these should be hard requirements for the posts to count, just listing the things that might make an image color-themed. I hope you get the idea.

What I described are the kind of images I'm hoping to find when looking up green theme, for example, but if this goes on, then it's going to only get increasingly harder to find those among images that just have a character dressed up in a green sweater, or have a patch of green in the corner.

And, can a single post really be tagged with two color_theme tags at once (post #6773841, post #2932071, post #1200912)? In my opinion, either one color_theme tag should be used or none at all.

I personally think the tag should only be applied if the post is bordering on monochromatic in it's approach to color post #6568758 post #5107100 and post #6309431 are all good examples of what I would want when searching purple theme. Anything with a white background or dependent solely on a characters clothes shouldn't be in a theme tag post #5655001 post #5547112 and post #4717710 are all things I would NOT want to see when searching.

In fact I'd propose the radical solution to just mass remove anything with a white_background from these tags. And no posts should not have 2 color theme tags, that is ridiculous.

I think of it like if I find myself adding a ton of the same color tags to a post (clothing, composition, etc.) it’s a pretty good indicator that the artist had a certain color theme in mind.

But having a majority %, if not all of the background match the theme should be a bare minimum in my opinion, finding fully white backgrounds in *_theme is silly.

Yeah, I think using it just because of clothes colors or the sunlight is going way too far.

If the post stands out significantly from the posts around it when doing a tag search for a given color theme, I believe that's grounds enough for not tagging it with that theme tag. Any image with opposing color themes or two main color themes should probably be given tags like limited palette or contrast.

zetsubousensei said:

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In fact I'd propose the radical solution to just mass remove anything with a white_background from these tags. And no posts should not have 2 color theme tags, that is ridiculous.

I do think it's worth holding a hardline stance on color theme tags, but in that case there should be a separate tag for monochrome characters/subjects against another color background. Take something like post #6311610, how should this be tagged?

Hankpropaniac57 said:
I do think it's worth holding a hardline stance on color theme tags, but in that case there should be a separate tag for monochrome characters/subjects against another color background. Take something like post #6311610, how should this be tagged?

greyscale_with_colored_background exists so maybe monochrome_with_colored_background?

Looking at examples you posted, I'd say that:

• post #6779771 - doesn't look like there's any color theme to tag

• post #6776670, post #6765059, post #3925928 - inconsistent coloring

• post #3393346, post #6732311, post #2301133 - it's just sunlight

• post #6409152, post #6748744, post #6764453 - i'd consider these to be _somewhat_ applicable of color theme,

• post #6773841, post #2932071, post #1200912 - color theme don't seem to apply at all in these - I'd say they're more of monochrome + spot color

(it seems I'm slow with my response)

Overall, I took a peek into my uploads with color themes and I'd say that post #5697294, post #5109463 and post #4941059 apply, because they show artists had some specific color in mind when drawing. Others are arguable and judging by what

zetsubousensei said:

[...] In fact I'd propose the radical solution to just mass remove anything with a white_background from these tags. [...]

something like post #4884553 and post #4911803 don't apply, yet they still show that certain color.

I feel like you could make an argument that post #6409152 would count for the green theme tag, but I can understand if people think there's too much white in the picture for it to count.

I'll admit I'm one of the people guilty of adding multiple *_theme tags (post #6297286) because a picture might focus on one color primarily but have a second color as back up, and adding limited palette wouldn't be accurate, but the tags definitely need clean up.

I agree that the examples of that are currently tagged as color_theme mentioned above are ridiculous, but I do think there are rare cases where 2 theme tags might apply - post #2046016 being an example.