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Amino

Homepage

Social network and app focusing on topic-based communities

Unfavorable source

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Non-GIF images are automatically converted to 65 quality JPEGs and are limited to a maximum resolution of 1024 by 1024 pixels. Images that are larger than that are downscaled to a resolution of 1024 pixels in width or height (whichever is longer), regardless of original format.
• To view an image directly, right-click on it in a post.

https://aminoapps.com/u/<UserHandle>

https://aminoapps.com/c/<community-name>/

https://aminoapps.com/c/<community-name>/page/user/<user-name>/<four alphanumeric characters>_<thirty alphanumeric characters>

https://aminoapps.com/c/<community-name>/page/<blog or item>/<page-name>/<four alphanumeric characters>_<thirty alphanumeric characters>

https://<c/p><m/a>1.narvii.com/<four digits>/<hexadecimal characters><r1-[original width]-[original height]v2>_hq.<filetype>

Artconomy

Homepage

Art gallery primarily focused on commissioning

Favorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• This site's file size limit matches eSix's (100 MB).
• Videos are supported but they are currently not converted on upload. Thus, you will have to convert a video to WebM for upload to eSix if it was not uploaded in that format.
• Additionally, the only video formats that can be viewed on the site are MP4 and WebM; videos uploaded in other formats such as the QuickTime File Format (.mov) cannot be viewed and must be downloaded first.
• To view an image directly, either left-click on the image and then right-click to open the image in a new tab, or just right-click the blue download button on the upper-right to do the same (left-clicking that button will bring up a download prompt instead).

https://artconomy.com/profile/<Username>/about

https://artconomy.com/submissions/<submission number>

https://artconomy.com/media/art/<year>/<month>/<day>/<filename>.<filetype>

Art Fight

Homepage - Wiki page

Annual art game played during July

Semi-favorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• This event's website has a low file size limit of just 5 MB, although it maintains the original quality of uploaded images.
• Images are separated between "characters" for character profiles, model sheets, and references, and "attacks" for artists' works of other artists' characters (attacks are also called "defenses" for the artist receiving the "attack").
• Character profile pages will also have links to their owners, designers, and any links where users can find more information about the character, such as on Toyhou.se.
• While character images can be uploaded to the website at any time, attacks can only be made during the event, which lasts during July (more specifically, from July 1 at 12 PM Mountain Daylight Time [UTC–06:00] to August 1 at 12 PM MDT).
• Users must be logged-in to view most of the site, including artist profiles/userpages, character profiles, and attacks.
• Just click on the the image or click "Full view" underneath it (where it says "Image by <artist> (Full view)") to view it directly.

https://artfight.net/~<Username>

https://artfight.net/character/<attacks/><character number>.<character-name>

https://artfight.net/attack/<attack number>.<attack-title>

https://images.artfight.net/<character or attack>/<60 alphanumeric characters>.<filetype>?t=<number>

ArtStation

Homepage

Portfolio website and showcase for professional artists

Unfavorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Artwork is automatically converted to a 90 quality JPEG. Minimum resolution is 400 by 400 pixels and maximum resolution is 10000 by 10000 pixels. Maximum file size is 10 MB.^[source]
• Users could view the original size prior to November 2017, though this has since been disabled except for GIFs. The best available version is now the "4k" option.
• To view a direct image on a submission page, hover the cursor over the image and select the fullscreen icon at the bottom. It will then open it in a new tab. Change large in the image's URL (see format below) to 4k to get the best quality and resolution available.

https://www.artstation.com/<artist name>

https://<username>.artstation.com/

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/<artwork hash>

https://<username>.artstation.com/projects/<artwork hash>

https://cdn<a or b; possibly additional characters including numbers>.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/<three digits for image ID; millions digits>/<three digits for image ID; thousands digits>/<three digits for image ID; hundreds, tens, and ones digits>/<sample size>/<artist name>-<artwork name and possible additional characters>.jpg?<artwork ID>

Behance

Homepage

Portfolio website run by Adobe for professional artists and designers

Favorability unknown

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• When viewing a Behance project (gallery), click on an image to get a full view of it. Right-click on the full image to download it or view it directly.

https://www.behance.net/<username>

https://www.behance.net/gallery/<project number>/<project-name>

https://mir-s3-cdn-cf.behance.net/project_modules/fs/<fourteen hexadecimal (base 16) characters>.<thirteen hexadecimal characters>.<filetype>

Blogger (a.k.a. Blogspot)

Homepage

Blog publishing service owned by Google

Favorable source

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Click the image to see it directly. If needed, change s<width> in the URL (most likely s1600) to s0 for the full size.
• Note that <width> is actually the maximum allowed width of the image in the URL (usually defaulted to 1600, but it can be changed to any value). That means that if the full size image is wider than whatever width is set in the URL, it will be downscaled and resampled to meet that width. However, if the full image's width is at or below the width set in the URL, then it will just show the full original image. s0 will bring up the full image directly, since it would be impossible for any site to render a 0-pixel wide image.

http://<blogname>.blogspot.com

http://<blogname>.blogspot.com/<year>/<month in 2 digits>/<post-title>.html

http://<digit>.bp.blogspot.com/<???>/<???>/<???>/<???>/s<width>/<filename>.<filetype>

Bluesky (a.k.a. Bsky)

Homepage

Twitter-like social networking service

Unfavorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• All images are converted to 80 quality JPEG, 4:2:0 (chroma quartered) and downsized to 2000px on its largest dimension.
• Warning: Thumbnails and images retrieved from posts less than 2000px in its largest dimension will be artificially upscaled, which would make it undesirable compared to the original size image that may be smaller. Use the URL format or add this userscript (direct user.js link) to a userscript manager (such as Tampermonkey) to obtain the "original".
• For images smaller than 2000px in their largest dimension, the Bluesky original will generally be better than X / Twitter.

https://bsky.app/profile/<username>

https://bsky.app/profile/<username>/post/<post-id>

https://av-cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/<decentralized identifier>/<IPFS content identifier>@jpeg

https://av-cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/<decentralized identifier>/<IPFS content identifier>@jpeg

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=<decentralized identifier>&cid=<IPFS content identifier>

https://<CDN server name>.<geographical location>.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=<decentralized identifier>&cid=<IPFS content identifier>

Buzzly.art

Homepage

Furry art gallery

Favorable source

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Full images are immediately viewable on the submission page; right-click to view an image directly or download it.

https://buzzly.art/~<username>

https://buzzly.art/~<username>/art/<submission-name>

https://submissions.buzzly.art/IMAGE/<eight hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<twelve hexadecimal characters>_<eight hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<twelve hexadecimal characters>.<filetype>

Cara

Homepage

Artist-focused social network and art portfolio website mixing elements of Instagram and Twitter

Unfavorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Although it accepts PNG files, most of them are converted to JPEG format. Only animated GIFs and some less detailed PNG images maintain their original quality.
• Full images are immediately viewable upon selecting a post; right-click to view an image directly or download it.
• Posts can have multiple images.
• Note that some images cannot be viewed directly in the browser outside of the post and will be automatically downloaded to your device if you attempt to load the image within the browser.
• This site currently does not host NSFW content due to limited moderation staff.
• This site does not host videos but allows artists to embed videos from third-party site such as YouTube and Vimeo.

https://cara.app/<username>

https://cara.app/post/<eight hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<four hexadecimal characters>-<twelve hexadecimal characters>

https://cdn.cara.app/production/posts/<same post id as mentioned above>/<username>-<21 characters, including numbers, capital letters, lowercase letters, underscores, and hyphens>-<filename given by artist>.<filetype>

Catbox.moe

Homepage

Simple file hosting and sharing service

Possibly favorable source (filesize limit exceeds eSix's)

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Caution: Although the site itself is safe, people have used the service to host malicious files. The site's developer has taken steps to block these, but there may still be other malicious files on there that they don't know about. Make sure your antivirus software is up to date, and only use the links provided by the artist when linking to here.

https://files.catbox.moe/<six alphanumeric characters>.<filetype>

Cohost

Homepage

Soon-to-be-defunct Tumblr-like social media site focused on community, without visible statistics to distract the user

Favorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Cohost is read-only as of October 1, 2024, and will be taken fully offline on December 31, 2024. New account creation is no longer possible, so accessing posts marked 18+ requires an existing account made prior to September 9, 2024.
• Uploaded images have their metadata stripped, including color profiles, which can affect how images appear if they originally contained an embedded color profile. Images in Cohost user data exports are the original images as uploaded to Cohost, and do not have their metadata removed.

https://cohost.org/[username]/post/[post ID-with-post-title-or-first-19-characters-of-the-post]

https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/[image ID?]/[filename].[ext]

Commishes

Homepage

Commission auction site for artists and commissioners

Semi-favorable source depending on subdomain and permissions

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Each Commishes subdomain requires a separate login and one-time authorization to integrate with the user's main account

Crm.commishes

Favorable source

• Send commissions and view commission status
• Files sent here are full quality and publicly accessible but not publicly searchable

https://crm.commishes.com/image/download/<first number>/<second number>

Ping.commishes

Unfavorable source

• Mostly an activity feed for the artist's posts on ych.commishes and portfolio.commishes
• Some standard social media capabilities (Likes, Replies, Shares) that are rarely used
• Images are 80 quality JPEG previews resized with the same rules as portfolio.commishes but scaling one dimension until 1280 pixels instead of 1920

https://ping.commishes.com/@<username>

https://cloudyslave<1-3>.commishes.com//file/retrieve/link/<200 character string>
https://cloudymaster.commishes.com//file/retrieve/link/<200 character string>

Portfolio.commishes

Favorable source with script (here)

Unfavorable source, normally

• Generally used as a gallery of finished art to demonstrate artists' style, quality, and completed YCHes
• As a third-party user checking Commishes for art to upload to E621, portfolio.commishes is probably the most intriguing area of Commishes
• Normally, post pages show a preview image, an indexed PNG (reduced to 256 colors) scaled to 1920 width
• Avoid uploading these previews to e621, especially upscaled art, which goes against our uploading guidelines
• Reduced color (quantization) varies in perceptual quality:
• Barely noticeable compared to other sources of the art
• Tinging some sections' colors with that of neighboring sections (black to greenish black)
• Completely switching colors (blue <=> purple) or losing color details in small areas like eyes
• However, portfolio.commishes does serve original quality art with a crafted URL, which can be manually determined from reading each post page's code
• Faucet's script will retrieve the original quality art on post pages instead of the preview
• These are fine to upload to e621

https://portfolio.commishes.com/

https://portfolio.commishes.com/user/<username>

https://portfolio.commishes.com/upload/show/<post ID>/

https://portfolio.commishes.com/image/<image ID>/large/

https://portfolio.commishes.com/image/<image ID>/original/

https://cloudyslave<1-3>.commishes.com//file/retrieve/link/<200 character string>
https://cloudymaster.commishes.com//file/retrieve/link/<200 character string>

https://commishes.io/image/<never ID>/never/u4bxFNtbWHwV8i3iVjMxvDJBHu7Cf2V2QZBAz?w=1920&s=<32 character string>

https://commishes.io/image/<never ID>/never/u4bxFNtbWHwV8i3iVjMxvDJBHu7Cf2V2QZBAz?s=<32 character string>

Ych.commishes

Usually unfavorable source

• Shows active and closed auction listings
• Currently, has categories for Furry, Pony, Human, Adoptables, and Crafts, but of course humanoid auctions are also available
• Active auctions at the ych.commishes homepage
• Active and closed auctions at artist profile pages
• Pictures seem to present original quality art when clicked
• However, most art here is unfinished YCHes, sketches, samples, crops, and so on, often with distracting watermarks that won't appear in final versions

https://ych.commishes.com/

https://ych.commishes.com/user/<username>/

https://ych.commishes.com/auction/show/<post ID>/<title>/

https://ych.commishes.com/followUp/show/<post ID>/<title>/

https://ych.commishes.com/image/download/<image number>/

Derpibooru and Furbooru

Derpibooru home page - Derpibooru wiki page

Furbooru home page - Furbooru wiki page

Booru-style image boards respectively dedicated to My Little Pony and the furry fandom

Favorable sources (both)

Derpibooru direct uploads whitelisted, Furbooru direct uploads not whitelisted

• Although third party sites like chans and boorus are usually discouraged, many artists directly post their My Little Pony artwork on Derpibooru.
• There is a specific derpibooru exclusive tag.
• Furbooru was founded by Derpibooru staff but is operated separately from that site. It is combined with Derpibooru here because it runs on a fork of the same software; thus, the functional and technical differences between both are minimal.
• Both sites respect artists' wishes, follows takedown requests, and forbid uploads and edits if such are prohibited by the original artists.
• Rule #1 Respect artists and their artwork: (Derpi link, Fur link)
• Derpibooru and Furbooru both have their own Do-Not-Post (DNP) Lists, too.
• Click "View" to see the full size version, or "Download" to download such version without viewing it in the browser. Click the simple options ("VS" or "DS") if you don't want tags in the file names.
• Both sites filter out things like memes and explicit content by default. This can be changed via the Browsing Filters menu (Derpi, Fur) linked on top-right corner (right side of the top panel under "Filters (<active filter name>)"). No account needed unless you want to fine-tune what is filtered.
• Files undergo lossless compression on both sites, resulting in an MD5 mismatch with the original content if it's also available elsewhere. Use the original linked source wherever possible.

https://<derpi or fur>booru.org/images/<post number><any extra superfluous stuff like search queries>

https://<derpi or furry>cdn.net/img/view/<year>/<month>/<day>/<post number><two underscores then a number of tags separated by plus signs if regular options are selected>.png

DeviantArt

Homepage - Wiki page

Online art community and social network

Semi-favorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• To get the best version in the current Eclipse layout, click on the Download icon underneath the image to the right. The icon is an outlined arrow pointing downward at what looks like a bracket turned on its side, closing the bottom. Note: You must be logged in to DeviantArt to download the original images from there.
• Artists can disable the ability to allow downloads of the original file and also watermark it automatically with DeviantArt's default watermark. In this case, click on the image to view the largest available preview, then right-click on the image to open it directly. If the original image was an opaque still image (i.e. not transparent and not animated), then the preview that you're viewing is most likely a lower-quality JPEG, even if the original file itself was not a JPEG. Open the "URL format" section for DeviantArt below and open the "Notes on current direct images" folder for more information and for how you can improve the quality of the preview.
• Some images can be viewed and downloaded in their original resolution and quality even if the artist(s) didn't "allow" downloads, either because the image's original resolution was too low to be affected by DeviantArt's resampling or the artist(s) permitted the full size to be viewed on the "deviation" page anyway.
• As of November 2018, DeviantArt's JPEG images old and new have been moved to Wix Media Platform servers and wixmp.com URLs (Wix.com Ltd. are the current owners of DA), and the JPEGs that are displayed to the viewer on first viewing are recompressed. As of December 2018, PNG files have also been affected. With the exception of GIFs, all direct links to images uploaded to DeviantArt are no longer easily accessible. Provided that the artist has permitted downloads of their work, you will have to download these images first before uploading to e621. (See this link for more.)
• As of January 2019, clicking on the download button (if the artist has permitted downloads of the original image) now no longer allows for the direct in-browser viewing of the original images at all; a download prompt will open up instead, forcing users to download the images directly to their device. However, the browser add-on Viewhance allows users to suppress prompts and force media inlining.
• To grab the URLs of download images for eSix uploading via URL, use Viewhance with "Force media inlining instead of download" enabled in the extension settings and this simple userscript so the download image URL will redirect to the one in eSix's whitelist. (i.e., It switches from https://wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com to https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com; the former is used for downloads and the latter is used for the images displayed to users on the site proper.)
• All old image links from deviantart.net still work, provided that they have been linked to or archived before (or if you knew them or have previously accessed them).
• No content containing sexual activity shown or described in explicit detail allowed.

https://www.deviantart.com/<username>

https://www.deviantart.com/<username>/art/<title>-<base 36 converted to base 10>

https://<pre/img/orig>00.deviantart.net/<four hexadecimal (base 16) digits>/<i or f>/<year>/<three digits corresponding to the day of the year>/<one hexadecimal digit>/<one hexadecimal digit>/<title>_by_<username>-d<six base 36 digits>.<filetype>

https://pre00.deviantart.net/<four base 16 digits>/th/pre/<i or f>/

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/<eight hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<twelve hexadecimal digits>/d<six base 36 digits>-<eight hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<twelve hexadecimal digits>.<filetype>/v1/fill/w_<width>,h_<height>,q_<JPEG quality>,strp/<title>_by_<username>_d<six base 36 digits><-fullview/-pre>.<filetype>?token=<a large number of random characters>

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/intermediary/f/<eight hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<twelve hexadecimal digits>/d<six base 36 digits>-<eight hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<four hexadecimal digits>-<twelve hexadecimal digits>.<filetype>

https://api-da.wixmp.com/_api/download/file?downloadToken=<a very large number of alphanumeric characters, along periods/full stops and hyphens>

https://<username>.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d<six base 36 digits>

Discord

Homepage - Wiki page

Instant messaging and VoIP service

Favorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Service allows of uploading almost any files as long as the file size limit is not exceeded, which is 8 MB for free users, 50 MB for nitro users, 100 MB for level 3 nitro boost servers.
• On desktop, does basic metadata stripping e.g. scrubbing EXIF information but does not touch the file itself. On mobile, images are really commonly downscaled during upload.
• When uploading, please make sure to provide all three URLs, at minimum the direct file link!
• Because of the nature of the service, third party uploads are extremely common. As such, URLs are crucial on verifying the content is from first party source.
• To get message link, enable developer mode (Settings -> Appearance -> Advanced -> Developer mode) and then either right click, long tap or click three dots on the message and select Copy Message Link.

https://discord.gg/<Random or predefined string>

https://discordapp.com/channels/<Server ID>/<Channel ID>/<Message ID>

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/<Channel ID>/<??? ID>/(SPOILER_)<Filename>.<Filetype>

Dropbox

Homepage - Wiki page

Cloud storage service

Favorable source (cloud storage)

Direct uploads whitelisted

• On regular dropbox.com link, either download file under three dots on top right or convert the URL format to direct file and use with direct URL upload.
• The account holder needs to create a share link for the file in order for the original image to be directly accessible. (Click Share button on file preview, click "Create link" under "Share a link instead" in share window, then click "Copy link" to view the file share link and copy it to your clipboard.)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/<random string generated by share link>/<filename>.<filetype>?dl=0

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/<random string generated by share link>/<filename>.<filetype>

Eka's Portal

Homepage - Wiki page

Online community and art archive dedicated to vore and unbirthing

Favorable source

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Either click the image to get the full-sized version or press "download" underneath it.

https://aryion.com/g4/user/<artist>

https://aryion.com/g4/view/<submission ID>

https://aryion.com/g4/data/<submission ID>-<???>.<filetype>/<artist>-<submission ID>-<title>.<filetype>

Facebook

Homepage - Wiki page

World's largest social network

Unfavorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Facebook will always recompress images uploaded to their servers, even if the image is uploaded in "high quality".
• Click on a post or image on a user's timeline or album to view the image in theater mode. Right-click the image to view it directly.
• To download it to your computer, hover your cursor over the image in theater mode, click "Options" on the bottom-right of the image when it appears, and then click "Download".

Fanart Central

Homepage

Fan art gallery and forums

Favorability unknown

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Don't expect a lot of images from this site to meet eSix's minimum quality standards.
• Right-click an image on its submission page to view it directly or download it.

http://www.fanart-central.net/user/<username>/profile

http://www.fanart-central.net/pictures/user/<username>/<submission number>/<Title-of-the-Submission>

http://pictures.fanart-central.net/<letter>/<username>/<submission number>/<username>-<submission number>-<Title_of_the_Submission>.<filetype>

Flickr

Homepage

Image and video hosting service

Favorability unknown

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• Click the "Download this photo" button (an arrow pointing down at an underscore) on the lower right of a submission's lightbox to access the download options for that image. To view all sizes, click the "View all sizes" option, and you will be taken to the image's download page. From there, select the largest size available (usually original), provided that you are not viewing the largest one available. Right-click the image shown on the page to view it directly or click "Download the <size name (should be 'Original')> size of this photo" to download it to your device.
• For videos, click the "Download this video" button (same icon) on the lower right of a submission's lightbox to download it to your device.
• Note that users can restrict the ability to download their content.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/<username>/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/<username>/<submission number>

https://www.flickr.com/photos/<username>/<submission number>/sizes/<size>/

https://live.staticflickr.com/<four digits>/<submission number>_<ten hexadecimal digits>_<size>.<filetype>

Fur Affinity

Homepage - Wiki page

Furry-focused online community featuring furry art, music, and literature

Usually unfavorable source for images uploaded before the site update on November 26, 2022 / Semi-favorable source for images uploaded after the site update on November 26, 2022

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Prior to November 26, 2022, Fur Affinity had a resolution limit of 1280 by 1280 pixels at initial upload only.
• Art that were of a higher resolution than either 1280 pixels in width or height before the update were automatically downscaled and converted to a 90 quality JPEG, even if the downloaded file is stated to be a PNG. If the image matches this description, avoid posting it unless it's the only place it's available.
• If the original file was larger than 1280px, then the submitter has to reupload their submission for it to show up on FA in its original size. In order to do this, they needed to select "Change submission file" under the Owner Options on the submission's page, select the original file from their computer, and then click the Submit button to upload it. This did not violate any rules according to site director Dragoneer.
• If they wanted to save time doing this as they were submitting a new image to FA, then they could have uploaded a small dummy image during the initial submission process, and then change the submission file to the intended image.
• Here's a before and after example involving a 1920 by 1080 pixel image uploaded to FA (taken under the classic UI) showing the workaround:
• Initial upload (image downscaled and converted by FA)
• After reupload (submission file changed)
• After November 26, 2022, Fur Affinity has raised the default upload resolution, but a maximum resolution has now been set at approximately 3.7 megapixels (3,686,400 pixels, which is 2560 by 1440 pixels at a 16:9 aspect ratio, a.k.a. 1440p or 2K, or 1920 by 1920 pixels at a 1:1 aspect ratio) for all users. This is raised to approximately 8.3 megapixels (8,294,400 pixels, which is 3840 by 2160 pixels at 16:9, a.k.a. 2160p or 4K, or 2880 by 2880 pixels at 1:1) for users with an FA+ subscription. The old "Change submission file" workaround no longer works, and the maximum dimensions regardless of user status are now 6000 pixels in either dimension.
• Images that are larger than the total pixel count allowed by the user's status (see bolded pixel counts in above bullet point) are downscaled by the site as with before. However, PNG images are no longer converted to JPEG format and will maintain their alpha transparency, finally fixing one of the site's biggest problems.
• The expanded image on the submission page, the full view submission page, and the download button all serve the same image.
• If you have an account, it's possible to automatically load the highest quality image. Go to My FA (classic template) or the gear icon (modern template) at the top of the page header, then select Account Settings (under "Account Information"). At the settings page, scroll down to "Account Personalization". Under the "Image Full View" option, change the dropdown option to "Full resolution". Then scroll to the bottom of the page, enter your password to verify, and click the "Update Account Settings" button.
• Mature and adult content requires registering and toggling the maturity filter in account settings in order to view.
• No underage characters depicted in any sexual manner allowed.
• Under the modern UI officially introduced on December 31, 2019, clicking "Download" on a submission page will only bring up a prompt to download the file to a device, not to view a direct file.
• Fur Affinity's search checks post descriptions, tags, and file names and will not match search terms contained in larger, unbroken groups of characters.
• This search behavior excludes results where a post description links to another user only using Fur Affinity's icon embed feature, which is very common for artists and commissioners crediting each other and owners of other featured characters. This poses a significant challenge for e621 uploaders looking for an artist's works that are only found in commissioners' galleries and not the artist's.
• The icon embed syntax is :icon<username>: and :<username>icon:, and Fur Affinity's search will show exact matches of those terms. Thus, to include posts mentioning a Fur Affinity user only with an embedded icon, also search icon<username> | <username>icon, where | means OR. For a practical example, searching gerkk | icongerkk | gerkkicon will return all posts were the artist gerkk is mentioned directly or only with an icon embed.
• Due to Fur Affinity's file naming behavior, the uploader's username is included in the file name, meaning a search for that name should always return all posts from that account. Add @lower !<username> to the end of a search to filter out posts from that user, where @lower is followed with the username and ! means NOT. For a practical example, gerkk | icongerkk | gerkkicon @lower !gerkk will find all posts mentioning the artist gerkk but filter out gerkk's own posts.

https://www.furaffinity.net/user/<artist>/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/<submission ID>/

https://d.facdn.net/art/<artist>/<UNIX timestamp>/<UNIX timestamp>.<artist>_<title>.<file extension>

http://t.facdn.net/<submission ID>@200-<UNIX timestamp>.jpg

Furiffic (defunct)

Homepage (offline)

Defunct furry art gallery and social network

Website offline

Direct uploads no longer possible

• This website shut its servers on June 1, 2022 and is no longer accessible.

https://www.furiffic.com/<username>

https://www.furiffic.com/<username>/view/<submission number>

https://cdn.furiffic.com/originals/<submission number>.jpg

FurryLife Online

Homepage

Furry art gallery and social network

Maybe favorable source?

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• It's tricky to access direct images on this site; clicking on an image's preview or thumbnail while navigating a gallery or album will only bring up the image within an in-window lightbox pop-up, which doesn't provide an easy way to view the direct image. Right-clicking the image in the lightbox will not bring up an option to view it directly, and closing the lightbox will only bring you back to where you last were.
• To get the link to the full image, you need to open the image's submission page. This can be done by either opening a submission page in a new tab or opening an image normally with the lightbox popping up and then refreshing the page. In both instances, the lightbox will show up with the image again, but you will have to close it by clicking the X on the upper-right.
• When you see the submission page without the lightbox pop-up, you will see the image within a different lightbox and the image's description, tags, comments, et cetera are below the image. (The lightbox pop-up features the description et al. to the right of the image.) Hover your cursor over the lightbox and you should see an icon showing up on the upper-right area that features an arrow pointing out from a box towards the upper-right. This is the "View Full Image" button that will load the direct image. Click on it to open the direct image in a new tab.

https://furrylife.online/profile/<user ID number>-<username>/

https://furrylife.online/gallery/image/<submission ID number>-<submission-name-in-all-lowercase-letters-without-symbols-and-with-spaces-replaced-with-hyphens>/

https://cdn.furrylife.online/monthly_<yyyy>_<mm>/large.<fiename>.<filetype>.<hexadecimal digits>.<filetype>

Furry Network

Homepage - Wiki page

Furry art gallery and social network

Favorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• All audio, video, Flash, etc. is bundled under "multimedia".
• Press Download to get the highest quality version. Image on the page is always a compressed JPEG and larger resolutions are also downscaled.
• Mature and explicit content does not show up while browsing without creating an account and altering content settings, although going directly to a submission's URL will allow you to view it after asking for confirmation.

https://*.cloudfront.net/<artists two first letters>/<artist>/submission/<year>/<month>/<md5???>.<file extension>

Gfycat

Homepage - Wiki page

Animated GIF gallery

Unfavorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Site supports multiple different formats. Content posted to e621 is preferred to be closest to the format it was originally uploaded in, with videos being a WebM file and GIFs a GIF file.
• GIFs of content originally uploaded as a video are usually heavily downscaled and have an almost slideshow-like framerate, where as if content was uploaded as a GIF, the largest GIF can look as good or even better than the WebM file.

https://gfycat.com/<ID [AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal]>

https://<size>.gfycat.com/<ID>(<-quality>).<filetype>

Google Photos

Homepage - Wiki page

Photo and video sharing and storage service developed by Google

Possibly unfavorable source (users can select lower upload quality that doesn't count towards their storage quota)

Direct uploads not whitelisted

• This essentially includes all content that is from a single Google user, which can include Google+ and forms (e.g. googleusercontent.com).
• At the end of the URL, you may see either =sXXX, =wXXX or =hXXX. Manually replacing the XXX with 0 should give you the original image without sampling or scaling.

Hentai Foundry

Homepage - Wiki page

Adult art gallery

Favorability unknown

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Quality guidelines specify to post submissions as JPG with dimensions no larger than 1500 pixels.^[source]
• No underage characters depicted in any sexual manner allowed.

HicceArs

Homepage - Wiki page

Art gallery specializing in underage artwork

Favorable source

Direct uploads whitelisted

• Click download to get the best version with the original filename. Simply saving the image should also give the same file, but with a generated name.
• An account is required along with manual confirmation in settings to view Extreme, Ideology, Mature, Homosexual, Non-human and Loli/Shota content.

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