Re: GIMP/Photoshop Thread

[Custom 333]

Can someone tell me what PDN is

It's a program used to edit punctuation and spelling.

[Darman]

The Ares Class Battle Walker: Kill your enemies in style(and with a touch of mythology)!

Hahaha that was pretty funny. An explanation would be nice Darman.

In actuality I really don't have much of a reason for it I wanted to attempt at making one of those flashy photo manipulation tests while still relating it to Lego. I simply had the idea to make it a poster about mid-way through the editing.

Can someone tell me what PDN is

Don't listen to Custom King Bravo. PND simply means Paint Dot Net, look it up on Google or another search engine and you will see what it is.

[Darth Dan]

Here is a pic me and my dad made on photoshop.

Please comment.

[Green Tee]

It could use some touching up Dan. The background is pretty good, but the cropping(cutout of the image) is very messy. Try using the magnifying glass to get all the details, keep a steady hand, and use as many straight lines as possible.

[Dutch]

I've been playing around with gimp and perfecting my photo editing skills. The end result is this teaser.

[Guest]

That looks great CK!
I just might post something I have been working on soon.

[Custom 333]

Some questions on that, although a magician never tells his secrets.

1. How did you get the photo so sharp and vectorized, both the MOCs and the background.
2. Teaser for what?
3. Did you use any GIMP brushes?

[Thunder-blade]

Looks good.

One thing though, the color has a different hue from the background, therefore you can tell it's been shopped. I'd play with the color-balance of the top layer.

[Custom 333]

Mibs FTW! I did not use pre made custom flame brushes, I made them myself.

[FireHawk]

not bad, mind showing us how you did it? =P

[Gerrard]

Pretty cool, maybe some finishing here and there but otherwise good.

[Custom 333]

not bad, mind showing us how you did it? =P

No problem! I use paint.net.
1. Make a random squigglely line one a black background. Duplicate the layer twice, and set the top 2 layers to lighten. Gaussian Blur the 1st layer by 10, the second by 30, and the 3rd by 15. For the best effect, stretch the 3rd layer using the Move Selection tool. After that, turn the contrast up by 20.


2. Flatten the image and run the "flames plugin" by BoltBait at all the standerd settings. There are 3 PDN fire plugins, BoltBait's works the best for this.


3. Run the Grim Color reaper plugin at all the standered settings. This removes the black without harming the darker colors.


If you want to use the the same flames often, you can save them in Documents>Paint.net User Files>Custom Brushes after you download the CustomBrushesMini plugin. They have to be PNG for it to work though, and a transparent background is best.

EDIT: For this planet I got a shaded sphere, drew some designs on it, duplicated the layer, set it to additive, zoom blur, flattened it, grim color reaper, and added a space background behind it.

EDIT: Oh crap I saved it as .jpg EDIT2: fixed.

[aquabug1998]

Found out how to do fire effects with Gimp:

[Cobra]

Hey, I just got GIMP, and I was testing it out. Here is what I came up with.



What do you think?

[Custom 333]

Where's the rainbow? It's waaaay to bright and colorful.

Turn down the saturation and make the clouds stormy, and work on the rotorblades spinning. It's OK for a new editor though.

[Cobra]

Where's the rainbow? It's waaaay to bright and colorful.

Turn down the saturation and make the clouds stormy, and work on the rotorblades spinning. It's OK for a new editor though.

Yeah, Here is an update with real background picture



Better?

[Custom 333]

Heck yeah, you get A+++!

[Gerrard]

Nice, but try to fix up the middle of the wings or whatever they are called.

[FireHawk]

My wallpaper I made in GIMP.

[Jedi Joe]

A bunch of squiggly lines?

[Firespray]

A bunch of squiggly lines drawn on a piece of cardboard?

[FireHawk]

Is this better?

[Troopa Daisy]

Err...sorry but no, now I barely even see anything.

[aquabug1998]

Just made this using GIMP:



It's a clone during Order 66, or is it? It could just be a clone deserter. Or a clone assassin after Order 66. I haven't decided yet. Sorry if it's too big, I don't know how to change the size.

[Custom 333]

@Aquabug: See if you can find Sialboat's tutorial, it'll really help you. Also, try to get better with your camera, you can't edit well on a blurry pic, no matter your skill.

@Firehawk: The text and symbols are pixelated, you could fix that by wand selecting the transparency and blurring it. If you flattened it already, you're better off redoing it, the tech brush is a dead giveaway.

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