Art that is rendered so realistically that it is harder to distinguish from photos and reality, even from the perspective of the thumbnail alone.

This tag should, above all, have the images give a sense of realism, even if it is a creature of fiction.
'Photorealism' is usually reserved for images of high artistic quality.

Features:

• Faithful and realistic proportions, and faces.
• Rendering of depth, perspective, and three-dimensional shape
• Naturalistic textures, shadows and lighting.
• Sense of realism

Photorealism may be commonly paired with the following tags:

• amazing background
• depth of field
• detailed scales/fur/feathers/skin
• soft shading
• detailed
• lineless
• lighting

Not to be confused with:

• anatomically_correct
• realistic

See also:

• toony
• tag group:art