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Originally Posted by Niqote

Colour is very important, to make the character look like they are not sitting 'on top of' the image behind. I paint it with a very soft brush after that and use a soft eraser if it is too much ^^
I want to do more of them but I lack good SSs since servers are down XD! I will do myself as a SMN with Carby when able!

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:D I'm looking forward to seeing your carby! :o

Me and the soft eraser go way back, I love well-blended edges! haha

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Originally Posted by Niqote

I had an embarrassing emergency with PS the other day because I didn't know what colour profiling was and I accidentally changed mine! So my images saved super dark ;_; it was a terrible few hours, but ViVa from Masamune too helped me fix it ^^

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Ouch! haha, I haven't really played with the color settings much, aside from Photo Filter... that has saved my butt so many times when skin I've colored looks a little 'grey' on completion>< lol.

So decided to have a bash at screenie edits, ended up falling back on using mainly soft paints since I couldn't get the effect I was looking for with filters>< lol

http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/...ps09c20615.jpg

and for comparison, here is the flat, yucky original lol:
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/...ps49a603f0.jpg

Speaking of FFXIV Screen Shot touch ups, here is the infamous collection

Uzura Damako
Ffxiv (Picture collection)

I had this posted already, but this time I found the artist!

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Originally Posted by MiNuN

Speaking of FFXIV Screen Shot touch ups, here is the infamous collection

Uzura Damako
Ffxiv (Picture collection)

I had this posted already, but this time I found the artist!

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That artist completely blew my mind the first time I saw those, I >wish< I knew how to get screenshots looking like that! lol

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Originally Posted by Nix

That artist completely blew my mind the first time I saw those, I >wish< I knew how to get screenshots looking like that! lol

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They actually have some tutorials posted on their blog, take a look. If you can read Japanese, that is :P

edit: damn, the elin maker is by them too... I knew the URL was kinda familiar...

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Originally Posted by Nix

That artist completely blew my mind the first time I saw those, I >wish< I knew how to get screenshots looking like that! lol

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The approach to these is easier to spot lol. Kinda like what I did with the Merl/F'lhaminn where I isolated the characters, then manipulated the backgrounds.

For a lot of these it looks like several filters were added to manipulate the color, then the backgrounds are blurred to give that dramatic contrast to the foreground character :D

@Sou + Vil - Thanks for the tip!! >:3 I shall check that out :D

Nixy, the thing to know about Photoshop (and to a lesser extent, the adobe programs) is what the specialty of that program does. Sure, you have tools to do other things, but the programs each have a specific task they excel at.

In Photoshop's case, it's photo manipulation, so you have an abundance of selection tools ready for you to select areas to distort, tweak, delete, color in etc.

I'm sure you know about Layers as well, but did you know layers have their own set of settings too? (Screen, Luminosity, Darken, Multiply etc)

Sometimes I like to use Mulitply for quick jobs. It makes it seem like you're doing an "underpainting", which is really nice in certain situations.

If you ever want to sit down and get some live lessons, I'd be happy to show you in sausage chat xD

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Nixy, the thing to know about Photoshop (and to a lesser extent, the adobe programs) is what the specialty of that program does. Sure, you have tools to do other things, but the programs each have a specific task they excel at.

In Photoshop's case, it's photo manipulation, so you have an abundance of selection tools ready for you to select areas to distort, tweak, delete, color in etc.

I'm sure you know about Layers as well, but did you know layers have their own set of settings too? (Screen, Luminosity, Darken, Multiply etc)

Sometimes I like to use Mulitply for quick jobs. It makes it seem like you're doing an "underpainting", which is really nice in certain situations.

If you ever want to sit down and get some live lessons, I'd be happy to show you in sausage chat xD

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I knew about the layers and their separate settings^^ I abuse them a fair bit in my paintings haha, and their blending options (WHO DOESN'T LOVE OUTER GLOW?!)

Though I have to admit, the absolute most I've used photoshop for is just paintings Q_Q;. Live lessons would be fun sometime my dear! I will pay you in uh... thancred digipaints and cake.

Thancred pllllssss Q.Q

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

Thancred pllllssss Q.Q

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May I please sit in the corner stalking quietly attend as well?

Part of my work as a school band director involves me making my own (instrumental) arrangements of music and stuff, and whenever the opportunity arises I always return to the music of the Final Fantasy series. This is my own arrangement, for symphonic band (google that up if you're not sure what we're made of) of Nobuo Uematsu's wonderful Twilight Over Thanalan, played at a local cosplay festival early 2012, in sync with a video of my little adventures that I made myself (eeks at bad editing!).

For those of you who may be familiar with what I do, I largely do my arrangements by ear... sometimes I do get help from sheet music made and posted by others on the web but sometimes the information is not as accurate... it's always back to listening to the original soundtrack for the hundredth time.

You may or may not like it, but here it is anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVvve...q_gQFQ&index=9

I'm currently at work expanding this arrangement into a larger melody that will include three of my other favourite tracks from FF XIV... Seven Jesters (actually the Good King Moggle battle theme), that final Nael von Darnus battle theme, and of course... Answers!

(if you hunt around my Youtube page I've done medleys for FF X and FF XIII as well)

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Originally Posted by Niqote

May I please sit in the corner stalking quietly attend as well?

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Of course e_e

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Originally Posted by deathstix

Part of my work as a school band director involves me making my own (instrumental) arrangements of music and stuff, and whenever the opportunity arises I always return to the music of the Final Fantasy series. This is my own arrangement, for symphonic band (google that up if you're not sure what we're made of) of Nobuo Uematsu's wonderful Twilight Over Thanalan, played at a local cosplay festival early 2012, in sync with a video of my little adventures that I made myself (eeks at bad editing!).

For those of you who may be familiar with what I do, I largely do my arrangements by ear... sometimes I do get help from sheet music made and posted by others on the web but sometimes the information is not as accurate... it's always back to listening to the original soundtrack for the hundredth time.

You may or may not like it, but here it is anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVvve...q_gQFQ&index=9

I'm currently at work expanding this arrangement into a larger melody that will include three of my other favourite tracks from FF XIV... Seven Jesters (actually the Good King Moggle battle theme), that final Nael von Darnus battle theme, and of course... Answers!

(if you hunt around my Youtube page I've done medleys for FF X and FF XIII as well)

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That's really great! :D I really like the FFXIV theme break in the middle.

Sorry I missed you Niqote XD I woke up shortly after you took off ; ;

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Originally Posted by Nix

I knew about the layers and their separate settings^^ I abuse them a fair bit in my paintings haha, and their blending options (WHO DOESN'T LOVE OUTER GLOW?!)

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I'm still learning myself, having only started the other week with no prior experience, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Abuse the hell out of drop shadows and inner shadows, as well as dodge and burn. That will definitely help bring out some luminosity and give everything artificial lighting, since most of it won't exist in an actual screenshot.


http://i.imgur.com/Ap1DU7D.jpg
Being wary of the actual setting of the screenshot helps as well. For example, this was in Ul'dah at night, so I gently eased the tone towards something orange-ish to imitate lantern light. Sapping a bit of contrast from the image can also soften things up and help make the dodge tool pop a bit more, where as adding contrast will really flush the colors out and if you add too much, start to alias and muddy up the image pretty badly. Light really helps set the mood overall, though, and that's important with modifying screenshots.

http://i.imgur.com/tq9tBb2.jpg

Really, I tend to just learn most from either having a friend give me some random tip, or by just playing with tools randomly.

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Originally Posted by Endemerrin

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Ahh thank you for your tips!! The screenshot edit looks wonderful ^-^

Usually instead of the dodge tool, if there's a certain color I'm looking to reflect off say a shield (If the subject is in an area where there's a strong blue light) I'll set a soft paintbrush to 8~14 opacity and set it to color dodge, that helps me to get the effect I want incase dodge tool lightens with a color I don't find ambient or fitting ;;, same with burn tool lol D: But as a painter I find myself leaning more towards the color dodge/color burn method on brushes to get my desired effects.. I think it's a strong force of habit lol.

I think your edit looks lovely, you should definitely post some more sometime, they look great!

I agree, if anything, to see his sexy hyur in his sig >.>

Hopefully this applies to this thread:
http://iainmurdock.deviantart.com

http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/...ck-d5u8v5y.jpg
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...ck-d5u8iwk.jpg

Didn't like the Hyur image for the summoner AF so I thought what would it look like on the concept art for the Male Miqo'te and set about applying the same shape/form and design to the charachter.

Sort of worked.

Just a little doodle I did because I was kind of bored. ^^


http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...ps8292ddaa.jpg

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Originally Posted by Endemerrin

I'm still learning myself, having only started the other week with no prior experience, so take my advice with a grain of salt. Abuse the hell out of drop shadows and inner shadows, as well as dodge and burn. That will definitely help bring out some luminosity and give everything artificial lighting, since most of it won't exist in an actual screenshot.


http://i.imgur.com/Ap1DU7D.jpg
Being wary of the actual setting of the screenshot helps as well. For example, this was in Ul'dah at night, so I gently eased the tone towards something orange-ish to imitate lantern light. Sapping a bit of contrast from the image can also soften things up and help make the dodge tool pop a bit more, where as adding contrast will really flush the colors out and if you add too much, start to alias and muddy up the image pretty badly. Light really helps set the mood overall, though, and that's important with modifying screenshots.

http://i.imgur.com/tq9tBb2.jpg

Really, I tend to just learn most from either having a friend give me some random tip, or by just playing with tools randomly.

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wants a shader to make the game look like that...

365 more...You guys make me want to learn how to photo screenshots now

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Originally Posted by MiNuN

365 more...You guys make me want to learn how to photo screenshots now

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You should play around with it!! It's very fun, though you spend more time separating things onto different layers / or making many different alpha maps than you do playing with filters/paints etc. Once you've got the selection stuff done though it's very fun!

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