A [[jpeg artifacts|compressed]] or [[downscaled]] version of an image, created by a website to reduce load times or save bandwidth.

Samples should not be uploaded to Danbooru. To avoid uploading a sample, paste a link to the image on the upload page, rather than downloading the image to your computer then uploading it. Given a link to the image, Danbooru will automatically find the best-quality version of the image available.

It is Danbooru policy to either replace samples with the full-size version, or delete them if the full-size version is already on Danbooru. You can ask for samples to be replaced in topic #16765, or flag them for deletion if the full-size version is already uploaded.

Not to be confused with [[sample watermark]]s, which are promotional images with a "SAMPLE" watermark. Also not be confused with [[revision]]s or alternate resolutions of the same image produced by the artist.

h4. Types of samples

* [[pixiv sample]]
* [[twitter sample]]
* [[nicoseiga sample]]
* [[tinami sample]]
* [[tumblr sample]]
* [[deviantart sample]]
* [[artstation sample]]
* [[drawcrowd sample]]
* [[yandere sample]]
* [[hentai-foundry sample]]
* [[weibo sample]]
* [[lofter sample]]
* [[zerochan sample]]
* [[konachan sample]]
* [[fantia sample]]
* [[danbooru sample]]

h4. See also

* [[duplicate]]
* [[help:upload]]
* [[help:image source]]
image sample