WikiFur:What is a featured picture?

A featured picture should:
 * 1) Be of high quality. It should be sharp and of pleasing colour balance, contrast and brightness, free of compression artifacts (such as in highly packed jpg files), burned-out highlights, graininess, and other distracting factors.
 * 2) *The exception to this rule is the rarity or importance of the image being depicted. The more historically-important an image is, or the rarer the content of the scene, the lower the quality that can be allowed. For example, the first photograph ever taken is of poor quality, but is one-of-a-kind, whereas NASA has a surplus collection of high-quality images.
 * 3) Be of a high resolution. The picture should be of sufficiently high resolution to allow quality reproductions.
 * 4) Be WikiFur's best work. It should be a photograph, diagram, image or animation that exemplifies WikiFur's very best work. It should represent what WikiFur offers that is unique on the Internet.
 * 5) Have a free license. It should be available in the public domain or under a free license. Fair use images are not allowed.
 * 6) Add value to an article and help complete readers' understanding of an article in ways other pictures in the article do not.
 * 7) Be accurate. Supported by facts in the article or references cited on the image page.
 * 8) Be pleasing to the eye. Taken or created in a manner which best illustrates the subject of the image. The picture should make a reader want to know more.
 * 9) *The same exception to the rule of high quality may be applied here. The more historically-important an image is, or the rarer its content, the less aesthetically-pleasing it may be.
 * 10) Have a good caption. The picture should be displayed with a descriptive, informative and complete caption. The image description page should have an extended caption that is suitable for featuring the image on the Main Page.
 * 11) Neutral (for maps) means that the map is uncontroversial in its neutrality and factual accuracy (see Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Neutral point of view).

Examples of good images
See the featured pictures gallery and Wikipedia's gallery