Calling Lordwafik... (Photoshop tutorial pg2)

[Elesirdur]

Dug up this thread in a reference; good info Wafik.

Remember, the reason to do these kinds of modifications is to make them look more like photographs taken with a real camera. A camera only has a specific focal length and will only show objects at specific distances from the camera in focus; thus other objects will be blured. Similairly, the human eye works in the same fashion, we can only focus on a small area of our vision, the peripherial stuff or that at great distances gest blurred.

More and more games are attempting to emulate this in their graphics engines; PGR3 is probably one of the best examples. The key here is sublety and composition. Try messing around with just a copy of your base layer and a blur brush to start to get a feeling for how the images change and how you preceive the changes - do they look more realistic? Do they just look artificial?

Here are some examples of stuff I've done in the past, though I must confess that seeing Wafik's work a number of months ago was a significant influence on my own style of graphical hacking.

http://members.shaw.ca/cgreer11/Feb03_01.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/cgreer11/Feb03_02.jpg
[img]http://members.shaw.ca/cgreer11/Al'Taieu_Clear.jpg[/img]
I liked how these three turned out, though the Al'Taieu one had problems looking like I just pasted model viewer pics onto an Al'Taieu background as there's no ground shading visible.

http://members.shaw.ca/cgreer11/TenzenLogo.jpg
I went a little overboard with the blur brush on this one, but the overall composition is acceptable; still not my favorite.

The following are three banners I made for the old Fanta website just before Dayooper decided to be a baby and fuck the LS up the ass. Anyways, more examples of subtle blurring.
http://members.shaw.ca/cgreer11/Bann...omathia835.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/cgreer11/Banners/Tavnazia835.jpg
http://members.shaw.ca/cgreer11/Banners/Ulmia835.jpg
The ones with Promathia and Ulmia are my favorite.

[Omalika]

what about the pics on theorderls.com's main page? those seem incredibly smooth and detailed...


http://www.theorderls.com/img/051406/DyBastok.jpg

and this one... notice the magma hoplon's spikes

http://www.theorderls.com/img/051406/Cerebus4.jpg

[Kiro]

Good timing?

[Elcura]

We call it our secret camera that's probably not so secret.

[Alleya]

Anything will look good if you scale it down from 1280x1024 or higher.

The secret is, full shadows and good angles. As far as I know we don't touch them up much except to crop and resize.

[Omalika]

ah well. just wanted to mention that they're really beautifully done... someone must have a nice GPU also

[Lordwafik]

Moved topic and changed title to avoid confusion

[Elcura]

When touching up, the blur tool is your best friend and worst enemy. Sometimes it might seem like a good idea to blur the fuck out of the background BUT IT ISN'T

[xingoo]

Wow, nice pics. And Wafik, thanks for the guide... I'll be trying out some when I get home =D

[Parshath]

zomg, author of an epic thread 8)

[Eraphiel]

Was wondering how you achieved some of those effects....amazing what a little depth of field can do to make a ss look so good.

Awesome work '.'b

[Leashedragon]

Thank you for this guide. I've always seen really awesome tweaked screenshots and wondered how they were done. I don't know much about Photoshop, but I know the minimals.

I've been taking screenshots for my linkshell for our news page and have wanted to make them more enhanced. I followed your little marid pic guide and did this. (I kicked myself in the ass for not docking chat log first...)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...nir90406-2.jpg

It's a first try, and I guess not the best to work with. So many people and edges to cut around. Also, sorry about the size. It's resized from a 1024 resolution to fit the news page.

Just thought I'd show my appreciation ^^

[anoush]

dude thanks Wafik, I had photoshop for a really long time but never was able to use it to this LEVEL, thanks to YOUR guide. two thumbs up!

check out my artwork

http://i7.tinypic.com/2vtt7uq.jpg

[Sonomaa]

as a side note, your infatuation in being a terrorist is going to get you killed someday anoush

[Epical]

Richardd from the NIN forums on lolKI, and Kayoto on the SAM forums from the same place are two people who have some of the nicest shots I've ever seen.

Here's one of Kayoto's... makes it look like an antique painting:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e8...KorazinGet.jpg

Richardd has way too many pictures to go and try to find a good one... >_>

[Bwelch]

My first time really using Photoshop >.<;

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...a/Test1234.jpg

[anoush]

as a side note, your infatuation in being a terrorist is going to get you killed someday anoush

on another de-rail ment if I may, my political believes have changed and been altered by new things I learn everyday. Despite loving Iran and sporting t-shirts and banners of people and figures not deemed as "good" by american standards. I actually love America and cherish it's wonderful history, for it's a great country truely. Aside from that, Amen to not having some son of a ku klux klan member open fire on me at school.


But yes, you actually have a vary valid concern/comment because my mom tells me if I wake up in gauntanimo bay (sp?) one day, it's my fault.

[XaocRamuh]

dude thanks Wafik, I had photoshop for a really long time but never was able to use it to this LEVEL, thanks to YOUR guide. two thumbs up!

check out my artwork

[img]tarukart64pic[/img]

Mmmmm DRG with MNK AF2 feet :wink:

[Bwelch]

Messing around with Photoshop again. :X ...Kind of off with the shading but yeah:

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...lchka/Moar.jpg

[Bwelch]

Late night bored'em. ;_;

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...hka/NexOne.jpg