Unique FFXIV Media

[Nix]

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!

I'm looking forward to seeing your carby!

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

[Nix]

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 ^^

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.

[Nix]

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



and for comparison, here is the flat, yucky original lol:

[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!

[Nix]

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!

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

[Soukyuu]

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

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...

[Vilhem]

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

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

[Nix]

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

[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

[Nix]

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

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.