Hello all. There is an ongoing "debate" over on BGG about whether or not it's considered okay to crop images released in the Paizo Community Use Package, i.e. those images found on the web fiction section or that were published on the Paizo blog and downloadable file packages. It is agreed that Paizo doesn't want us messing with their logos or titles, but not completely clear from the wording of the policy that we can't resize and crop other images.
I am reworking my first fan made adventure, and it would be nice to get a definitive answer.
Here is an example of a villain I made. The original image has been cropped about 50% to give a better look.
Here is a location I made, where the cropping is to provide emphasis on the slave labor aspect.
Possible for anyone to let me know if the above images are okay?
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I'm not with Paizo, but the way I see it they explicitly prohibit modification of logos, icons and product covers, but nothing else.
If they did not want us to crop images in any way they would be a) stupid (because really, that's just not feasable - you'd need to find an image with the EXACT aspect ratio you needed) and b) they'd not call out logos, icons and product covers the way they do.