Curse

Tokolosi · Sep 15, 2006, 08:24 PM // 20:24

Wew. Had a second go... with my necro, this time

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Wickie · Sep 17, 2006, 12:50 AM // 00:50

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Originally Posted by Bethany

@Unlucky Slayer: Thanks for the help. 800 pixels wide would be an absolute maximum. Larger than that not only forces you to scroll sideways but prevents us from seeing the image as whole.

@Wickie: I really like your first one. Nice setup and presentation. The second one looks strange as your character looks like a "paste-up" on a blurred backdrop.

@xxSilhouette: For a first attempt I'd say it's really good. Always keep in mind that a good image needs a good setup first. Never be afraid to take multiple screenshots; check differents areas, hike to places you haven't gone yet and play with the camera.

@Sable Phoenix: I really like what you did. Looks like paint on a canvas. Can you enlighten us with the steps, please?

xxSilhouette: Yep, second one looks even better. The only thing I see are some areas around the body which need a more precise erasing; shoulders and arms. Zoom in on your image as much as needed for the erasing.

bryann380: I'm not familiar with PSP but I'd say you did a pretty decent job here. Only one thing; the colors of the backdrop are vivid but your character's skin looks, well, pale. Unless that's her original skin color. Because as I see it, the backdrop catches the eye first because of the colors, then to the character.

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The Second one is my necro being bored while a Bladed Aatxe is coming >,<

anyway, thanks

<3

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I <3 PhotoShoping

Bethany · Sep 17, 2006, 03:21 AM // 03:21

How come I'm never bored when these bloody things attacked??

@Tokolosi: All you need now is the right pose and the right background. Keep us posted.

Sable Phoenix · Sep 17, 2006, 07:36 AM // 07:36

Well, as Bethany requested I'll provide some explanation of how I got from this:

To this:

My first steps were similar to Bethany's tutorial. I made three layer copies of the entire screenshot; in this way I can erase various parts of the image to get different blurs. The bottom was Gaussioan blurred to 3, and everything was erased save the sky and horizon; the middle was blurred to 2 and included the giant crystal; the top was blurred to 1 and had only the characters and foreground erased. Then I flattened, applied a subtle lighting effect, and dodged and burned various areas to bring out highlights.

The color changes are very involved and include a lot of Image>Adjustments>Color Balance, Image>Adjustments>Brightness&Contrast, Image>Adjustments>Levels, Image>Adjustments>Hue&Saturation (ctrl+U), and Image>Adjustments>Variations, as well as some hand-painting. That's beyond what most people probably want to do here, although I can make a detailed tutorial if people want it.

Once the image was blurred, lit, and highlighted to my satisfaction, I made a new layer copy and applied a Filter>Brush Strokes>Angled Strokes to it. I adjusted it to my satisfaction, then set the layer opacity to approximately 30%. This gave me a subtle painterly effect without destroying too much detail. Then I made another layer copy of the first un-stroked layer, used Hue&Saturation with the Colorize box checked to give the entire layer a warm sepia tone, then applied Filter>Texture>Texturizer and used the Canvas texture with a very high relief setting. I then altered the layer opacity of this one as well, to approximately 25%. Finally, I wanted the sky brighter and more orange, so I used Select>Color Range to select the sky colors and altered the Brightness&Contrast and Hue&Saturation, then threw a little Dodging on it to blow it out some. And viola! Save as JPEG and the result is what you see.

Jeff Highwind · Sep 20, 2006, 06:55 AM // 06:55

Bumping to post an experiment I kinda messed around with.
My necro's got some real poser potential.
http://www.shinraonline.com/gallery/...2_original.jpg

Crystal Alice · Sep 21, 2006, 12:29 AM // 00:29

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Originally Posted by Astro Pubes

My sad attempt

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4229/gw0559gd.jpg

sad?! this is an awesome pic!

i love the lightning in the background of the temple with the dark clouds and shadows. your mesmer looks so pretty!

Bethany · Sep 22, 2006, 12:45 AM // 00:45

Woohoo! Managed to get some free time to mess around a bit with a couple of screenshots. Nothing groundbreaking or anything heavily pshopped. Here's my warrior Kyra in a nice light/dark environment. Noticed I haven't used my "technique" in this shot. I barely tweaked it and resized.

Can't remember if I posted my rit in this thread or another one...

So here it is again, in a similar place.

Also, with the incoming release of Nightfall, I hope this thread will pick up some steam again because if anything, the Nightfall setting looks extremely rich in artistic opportunities.

Bethany

Cunning · Sep 22, 2006, 02:48 AM // 02:48

New age warfare:

...and over there is...

Jeff Highwind · Sep 22, 2006, 02:50 AM // 02:50

That 2nd one looks brilliant.

haunted deception · Sep 22, 2006, 03:27 AM // 03:27

http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/3963/gw091copylf7.jpg

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7...91copy1fo2.jpg

Bethany · Sep 22, 2006, 03:41 AM // 03:41

@ sable Phoenix: Thanks a million for the elaborate description of your image treatment.

@ cunning: I really like what you did. Can you share your image treatment?

@ Haunted Deception: Please, as stated by Unlucky Slayer and myself, keep your images no more than 800 pixels wide. Your image, even if interesting, is 1280 pixels wide. 800 pixels is more than usually allowed but the thread received a special permission so I would like again to remind everyone to keep everything at 800 or less.

Cunning · Sep 22, 2006, 04:27 AM // 04:27

The explosion was from a worm in FoW, I intensified the cloud of dust using the dodge tool, then I adjusted the Curves quite heavily. I also added noise.

In the second shot I just blurred, sharpened and intensified everything where required. I also adjusted levels, used the Cutout filter, used Smart Blur and adjusted layer styles.

Might as well add another one:

Matix411 · Sep 23, 2006, 06:24 AM // 06:24

Took a crap load of screen-shots today in the preview event, I officially love the Paragon armor, starter or no, it all looks so very nice.
Dervish are pretty awsome too, but I'm saving them for when I actually buy the game.

Anyway, here's a few that I messed around with.

I'm so excited for this game, it's ridiculous.

Zoom.

My favourite.^^^^

Don't like how high contrast it is but I love the pose ...

My second favourite.^^^^

Selena_Lionheart · Sep 23, 2006, 11:16 AM // 11:16

My newest

Vahn Roi · Sep 23, 2006, 06:24 PM // 18:24

^Ringu

Elwynn Swiftwind · Sep 23, 2006, 08:41 PM // 20:41

1st, try let em know what you think.

EDIT: 2nd try

and finally..3rd try

kinda too bright tho

Eej · Sep 24, 2006, 12:41 AM // 00:41

So I'm bored this afternoon and decided hey, why not join the fun?

Leads to:

Not really satisfied with it, but my tablet is broken and fine detail is beyond my mousing abilities.

Lichtenberg · Sep 24, 2006, 01:27 AM // 01:27

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Selena_Lionheart · Sep 24, 2006, 08:24 AM // 08:24

Another, her full Silver armor this time.

Matix411 · Sep 24, 2006, 03:25 PM // 15:25

That shield looks soo nice.