Bethany's Gallery and Image Workshop (56k beware)

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How come I'm never bored when these bloody things attacked??

@Tokolosi: All you need now is the right pose and the right background. Keep us posted.

Well, as Bethany requested I'll provide some explanation of how I got from this:



To this:



My first steps were similar to Bethany's tutorial. I made three layer copies of the entire screenshot; in this way I can erase various parts of the image to get different blurs. The bottom was Gaussioan blurred to 3, and everything was erased save the sky and horizon; the middle was blurred to 2 and included the giant crystal; the top was blurred to 1 and had only the characters and foreground erased. Then I flattened, applied a subtle lighting effect, and dodged and burned various areas to bring out highlights.

The color changes are very involved and include a lot of Image>Adjustments>Color Balance, Image>Adjustments>Brightness&Contrast, Image>Adjustments>Levels, Image>Adjustments>Hue&Saturation (ctrl+U), and Image>Adjustments>Variations, as well as some hand-painting. That's beyond what most people probably want to do here, although I can make a detailed tutorial if people want it.

Once the image was blurred, lit, and highlighted to my satisfaction, I made a new layer copy and applied a Filter>Brush Strokes>Angled Strokes to it. I adjusted it to my satisfaction, then set the layer opacity to approximately 30%. This gave me a subtle painterly effect without destroying too much detail. Then I made another layer copy of the first un-stroked layer, used Hue&Saturation with the Colorize box checked to give the entire layer a warm sepia tone, then applied Filter>Texture>Texturizer and used the Canvas texture with a very high relief setting. I then altered the layer opacity of this one as well, to approximately 25%. Finally, I wanted the sky brighter and more orange, so I used Select>Color Range to select the sky colors and altered the Brightness&Contrast and Hue&Saturation, then threw a little Dodging on it to blow it out some. And viola! Save as JPEG and the result is what you see.

Bumping to post an experiment I kinda messed around with.
My necro's got some real poser potential.
http://www.shinraonline.com/gallery/...2_original.jpg

Woohoo! Managed to get some free time to mess around a bit with a couple of screenshots. Nothing groundbreaking or anything heavily pshopped. Here's my warrior Kyra in a nice light/dark environment. Noticed I haven't used my "technique" in this shot. I barely tweaked it and resized.



Can't remember if I posted my rit in this thread or another one... So here it is again, in a similar place.



Also, with the incoming release of Nightfall, I hope this thread will pick up some steam again because if anything, the Nightfall setting looks extremely rich in artistic opportunities.

Bethany

New age warfare:

...and over there is...

That 2nd one looks brilliant.

@ sable Phoenix: Thanks a million for the elaborate description of your image treatment.

@ cunning: I really like what you did. Can you share your image treatment?

@ Haunted Deception: Please, as stated by Unlucky Slayer and myself, keep your images no more than 800 pixels wide. Your image, even if interesting, is 1280 pixels wide. 800 pixels is more than usually allowed but the thread received a special permission so I would like again to remind everyone to keep everything at 800 or less.

The explosion was from a worm in FoW, I intensified the cloud of dust using the dodge tool, then I adjusted the Curves quite heavily. I also added noise.

In the second shot I just blurred, sharpened and intensified everything where required. I also adjusted levels, used the Cutout filter, used Smart Blur and adjusted layer styles.

Might as well add another one:

Took a crap load of screen-shots today in the preview event, I officially love the Paragon armor, starter or no, it all looks so very nice.
Dervish are pretty awsome too, but I'm saving them for when I actually buy the game.

Anyway, here's a few that I messed around with.

I'm so excited for this game, it's ridiculous.


Zoom.

Zoom.

Zoom.

My favourite.^^^^

Don't like how high contrast it is but I love the pose ...

My second favourite.^^^^

My newest

^Ringu

1st, try let em know what you think.

EDIT: 2nd try



and finally..3rd try

kinda too bright tho

So I'm bored this afternoon and decided hey, why not join the fun?



Leads to:



Not really satisfied with it, but my tablet is broken and fine detail is beyond my mousing abilities.

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Another, her full Silver armor this time.

That shield looks soo nice.

wonder how the 3silver+1yellow dye combo works on that armor... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Did some adobe effects iv never tried, turned our pretty cool.

"Im using resurection chant on old thread"

Been bored today and thought id try it out....





10 points if you guess the Mesmer pic BG Area

What I want to know is, what color combo is that mesmer armor? It looks too ivory to be straight silver from the pic (although that could be altering that you did to it).

I've been looking over the thread, and I love seeing the different pictures of people's characters and what they've done with them. This thread is great fun!

I have a pretty reasonable photoshop background in terms of photos and web graphics, but am new to screenshots. Blurring the background hadn't even occurred to me, and seeing all the pictures was really inspiring. So, here's what I came up with:

Oseldine Reith: I had no particular goal with this, but I wanted to try things out and see what came out of it:
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Elinora Ne Sangre: I was aiming for a look that suggested that the night was much darker than it actually was at the Dragon Festival, and that the lights lit up the immediate area.
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Imden Samalda: This was my favorite out of the three; it took a little bit more work than the others in some ways. I did the whole thing and realized that Imden looked washed out to me. I ended up having to adjust the layer with him on it just a bit to make it more bold.
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Any comments or thoughts are appreciated!

Thanks for the great tutorial, Bethany!

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I made this one the other week :3



Sorry for the big file size =.=

Here are two others i made, Im not very fond of the first one, but i wanted to do one with all of the dragon festival decorations, and i didn't have many options

Before and after

@ Abuh: I really like the result, makes everything clear and standing out.

@everyone thanking me for the tutorial; it was my pleasure and what pleases me even more is that this thread is still kicking. *snoopy dance*

But remember, my tutorial is nothing more than a step by step info on some experiments I did. By toying with PS or any other image editing software, you can craft some stunning works like some that have been posted here. Don't be afraid to experiment, take notes of the different steps you take and always keep your original files safe. In some of my free time I thinking of something and if it's working out I'll post it here.

Bethany

One try, that's following the tutorial but I cant work out how to dodge/burn and lighting well, so it's incomplete

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this is my sin...

Well i was board this morning so made this tell me what you guys think

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