Calling Lordwafik... (Photoshop tutorial pg2)

[VDS]

thief in game and rl!!! So does that mean ur a rdm out of game too? D:

Paralyze would be so much crueler in real life imo.

Makes him a pimp out of game.

[Koga]

well IRL we dont call it "paralyze", we call it "baseball bat to your spinal cord"

Who wants to meet Wafik IRL now?

[Lordwafik]

Grats magus Keep going with your pics, they'll only get better and better. Soon you'll discover your own methods of doing things (like how i did my glow ). One way I practiced was by trying to copy other pictures and get their same effect. There's many tutorial pages out there.

[Yummy]

outside of the filters i like to use Curves to play with the colors and contrast and highlights and all that... minor to extreme changes

[Dezzimal]

Finished installing/registering Photoshop CS2 tonight and worked on my first pic, how is it?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...g_0006edit.jpg

Hmm this is fun lol, I am going to keep doing these until I get really good. Thanks for the guide Wafik!

Try using fraps or windower's screenshot capability for your source picture. Its difficult to see much on a 400x300 screenshot which is the default official FFXI screenshot size. Knock up the resolution all the way if you want, still photos aren't affected by FPS. Still looks pretty nice.

[Maguspk]

Finished installing/registering Photoshop CS2 tonight and worked on my first pic, how is it?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...g_0006edit.jpg

Hmm this is fun lol, I am going to keep doing these until I get really good. Thanks for the guide Wafik!

Try using fraps or windower's screenshot capability for your source picture. Its difficult to see much on a 400x300 screenshot which is the default official FFXI screenshot size. Knock up the resolution all the way if you want, still photos aren't affected by FPS. Still looks pretty nice.

I play on like 800x600 or whatever the largest recommended instance of FFXI is. And my background resolution is the highest possible, I just play on a small window, so maybe that's it? Or maybe I'm just saving it wrong/editing wrong. Can anyone please tell me how to make my pictures bigger?

[aurik]

Use windower screenshots (prtscrn) or fraps. FFXI resizes to a retarded size.

[Maguspk]

Use windower screenshots (prtscrn) or fraps. FFXI resizes to a retarded size.

That is a windower screenshot, but ffxi auto takes a picture and adds its stamp to the corner because I have to hide the console then hit Scroll Lock for the screenshot.

[aurik]

Remap the screenshot button for your screencap program.

[Wilimac]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...kgorundthf.jpg

Blame photobucket on the size....

Ty Lordwafik for the tut. I almost forgot most of my PS stuff from high school.

[grozny]

Love the tut thanks for making it. Really nice/easy way to get a nice pic!

Heres what ive came up w/ and only more to come!! Im going to be taking alot of pics in game now!

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/3...znycopy3kb.jpg

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/5077/olo6nl.jpg

Again ty for the explaining how you did it all, it was VERY helpful.

[Maguspk]

I have a question though, for my pictures I've just been dividing the ground between the different layers, for example:

For background I isolate the background elements and the ground with it.
For midground (is that the proper term?) I isolate the midground and the ground around it, and so on for Foreground.

At any rate, how does everyone else do it? It semms like people are only making like a single character their foreground? Is it better to make the main thing that is closest to the camera as the foreground alone? Or is making the ground around the foreground a part of the foreground acceptable too?

[Lordwafik]

I have a question though, for my pictures I've just been dividing the ground between the different layers, for example:

For background I isolate the background elements and the ground with it.
For midground (is that the proper term?) I isolate the midground and the ground around it, and so on for Foreground.

At any rate, how does everyone else do it? It semms like people are only making like a single character their foreground? Is it better to make the main thing that is closest to the camera as the foreground alone? Or is making the ground around the foreground a part of the foreground acceptable too?

I dunno what to call the midground I just call it that.
As for the foreground, I just chose a thing to focus on, and blur whatever isnt part of that. I use parts of the ground/area directly around the focus target. Keep in mind you dont have to focus on a whole character, you can focus on a part or just 1 small peice of the pic like this .

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/298/reliczomg0pt.jpg

Or you can do it in reverse, blur the foreground and focus on something in the background.

[royze]

i could throw in some tips or tutorials too here...

im being too lazy to make my own signiture

here is some of the stuff i made a while back...ill contribute later if someone needs some ideas/advice

http://www.royze.net/pictures/img_0017.jpg

http://www.royze.net/pictures/img_0019.jpg

http://www.royze.net/pictures/img_0005.jpg


On my website

[Maguspk]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../Pre-Vrtra.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...DiabolosBP.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...PezantNuke.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...cryArturos.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../MinueKite.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...2/MinueRun.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...librusNuke.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...osDefender.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...eonienKite.jpg


I figured out the best way, for me at least of doing the layer dividing. First off I duplicate the original layer so that I have 2 copies of the original. Since my midground seems to always be the largest and most annoying layer to make I will layer via cut my foreground and layer via cut my background. This leave my with a copy of the original image with everything except the foreground and background, thusly leaving the midground. Then I simply gaussian blur and adjust and bam, done ^.^

[Dezzimal]

You guys let your Taru PLD actually come to events as PLD? =/

I'm taru NIN and I get no <3, except for limbus once.

[Lordwafik]

@ magus : Getting there, except it looks like you've blurred the whole pic except for the character you're focusing on. You need to have a little focus

Look at some RL photography as examples where blur starts getting heavy and when it fades out to sharpness.

[Julian]

You guys let your Taru PLD actually come to events as PLD? =/

I'm taru NIN and I get no <3, except for limbus once.

Unlike taru nins, taru plds own.

[Maguspk]

@ magus : Getting there, except it looks like you've blurred the whole pic except for the character you're focusing on. You need to have a little focus

Look at some RL photography as examples where blur starts getting heavy and when it fades out to sharpness.

KK I'll keep that in mind. I did think about that however as I was doing them. It feels like when I don't but the Gaussian blur for the background and midground at around 2+ the foreground doesn't get a big enough focus. I will try lowering my blur though on my midground. What do you use for background and midground blurs usually? Does it vary from distance to distance?

@ the comments on Taru PLD. Minue is a Tarutaru melee lol, SAM,NIN,PLD,WAR all at 75. As for Allowing him to come as PLD, we needed 2 PLD's and Minue and Arturos were the ones that showed up. We don't have a zerg force we just go with what we have and rape shit.

[edgarfigaro]

You guys let your Taru PLD actually come to events as PLD? =/

I'm taru NIN and I get no <3, except for limbus once.

Gee, I wonder why

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