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4 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2009 - 1:53AM
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Date Joined:
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A long time ago, there was a thread on how to make your own custom portrait. I think i got the link.. ah found it. http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/ … p/t-484022I saved it, but been too busy the last 4 years to try it out yet. lol
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4 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2009 - 5:13AM
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My program seems to have masking capabilities built in already, I just haven't learned how to use them.
Masking is much better then cut out. Masking is the process of hiding parts of the image without actually removing them. So if you need to tweak, you tweak the mask not the image.
Also, with masking, you can blend in with images behind the image. In a mask, black is completely gone, white is completely invisible. The different shades of gray is transparancy. So if your mask has a small graidation from white to black, so will your image, allowing colors behind to come through, and blend the two.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2009 - 8:05AM
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- Forum Guide
- Survived Order 66
- Rules Lawyer from Hell
- Keeper of the F.A.Q.
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Masking is much better then cut out. Masking is the process of hiding parts of the image without actually removing them. So if you need to tweak, you tweak the mask not the image.
Also, with masking, you can blend in with images behind the image. In a mask, black is completely gone, white is completely invisible. The different shades of gray is transparancy. So if your mask has a small graidation from white to black, so will your image, allowing colors behind to come through, and blend the two.
Thanks! That helps me understand it a little better--unlike those crappy and confusing help documents that came with the program.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2009 - 11:59AM
#54
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Date Joined:
Sep 10, 2007
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This was for one of my players Took this pic of Drizz't: Spoiler:
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Played with hue/saturation, gave him green eyes, there! Spoiler:
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I was concerned about the look of his armor on the left side, but decided I'd say it was a reflection of the ambient lighting.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2009 - 8:33PM
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Date Joined:
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Here's another one. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it. It's a little sloppy, but I did it quickly: Original
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A little hue/saturation work, and: Deva!
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Please comment.
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4 years ago ::
Apr 30, 2009 - 8:44PM
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Here's another one. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it. It's a little sloppy, but I did it quickly:
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A little hue/saturation work, and:
Deva!
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The eyes are a little 'off', the glow effect looks faked. the rest looks awsome, when i get back to my computer im stealing both the org and mod.
-Nerp
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4 years ago ::
May 01, 2009 - 6:57AM
#57
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Date Joined:
Apr 12, 2009
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OK I know this is not quite the same as the others but it was painted in photoshop  . This is my Drow warlock from our game, my husband painted it in photoshop from scratch. Spoiler:
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4 years ago ::
May 01, 2009 - 9:44AM
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Date Joined:
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OK I know this is not quite the same as the others but it was painted in photoshop . This is my Drow warlock from our game, my husband painted it in photoshop from scratch.
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This is great. Your husband should do more. He would find many appreciative followers and fans on the forums.
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4 years ago ::
May 03, 2009 - 6:08PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 19, 2007
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Well, I had a request to post some work in here, so I decided to procrastinate on going to bed at a decent hour in order to post something. I don't really consider myself a photoshopper, as I use Corel Photopaint 8 and I'm basically just a digital grafitti artist, drawing moustaches and glasses on people. Anyhoo, this was just a quick(ish) job. I fielded one of the requests on the other thread for someone to take this head... Spoiler:
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and put it on this body... Spoiler:
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I started by whacking the new head off it's original body, then flipped it horizontally in order to better line up the hair with the position of the armor's collar and shoulderplates on the black paladin and pasted it into a new document (since I don't work with layers at all). It was a few sizes larger than it needed to be, so I reduced it to, um, 75%? I forget. I then softened the head quite a bit, sampled the colors on her face and went over each one with the same color at about 75% transparency in order to further smooth it out and tone down the highlights to try to make it look more "illustrated" than it was. (If you look at a picture under magnification, about 80% of the color of any particular detail is not the same shade (or even always the same color) that the object appears to be. Pixels in a green object go from black to olive to khaki and even grey or tan, and appear in an uneven pattern. By shifting all or most of them to a more uniform shade, it tends to flatten out the object, since contrast between dark and light is what gives a two-dimensional object a sense of depth.) I then went in and outlined everything in black to give it more of a "drawn" look, cut it out of the temporary document I was working in, and pasted it into position over the head of the pally. Since certain portions of the new head were covering up parts of the edge of the shoulderplate on the right arm and some of the collar, I opened another instance of the original pic, grabbed a chunk of the relevant section being very careful to cleanly trace the edges, and pasted it back into it's original position on the version with the new head, covering over the places where the hair and neck were overlapping the armor/collar. I then softened the entire pic again to try to blend the artistic styles of the individual parts a bit more. It's a quick hack job, and I'm less than satisfied with it, but there was a pretty fair disparity between the two original pics so I'm not entirely disgruntled, lol. This was the final result... Spoiler:
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I am the Magic Man.
(Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.)
I am the Lawnmower Man.
(I AM GOD HERE!)
I am the Skull God.
(Koo Koo Ka Choo)
There are reasons they call me Mad...
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4 years ago ::
May 05, 2009 - 4:11PM
#60
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Date Joined:
Dec 28, 2003
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Can anyone photoshop this modify, or something for me? I'm currently playing a dwarven cleric of Moradin... and don't really have any artistic skills.  He needs to look a little bit younger, mostly the beard. Thanks.
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