Photoshop THIS!

Post by **OhMyHead** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:54 pm

I'm working on a couple of ideas. When I post, you'll see nothing is impossible when anything goes. :)

Post by **OhMyHead** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:50 am

See?

dickcheneyhunting · Post by **dickcheneyhunting** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:24 am

OhMyHead wrote:

See?

OMG, that is awesome!

I like how it resembles the map.

Post by **OhMyHead** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:07 am

Thanks! Here's the other. It stinks, and it cut into my Fallout 3 time, but I wanted to show you that you can do just about anything you can imagine with any original pic.

I also wanted to put a giant Godzilla footprint on the building, crashing half of it, with Godzilla waaay in the distance heading for the city. But I don't have da skillz for that one. :)

TheDecipher · Post by **TheDecipher** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:45 am

OhMyHead wrote:Thanks! Here's the other. It stinks, and it cut into my Fallout 3 time, but I wanted to show you that you can do just about anything you can imagine with any original pic.

I also wanted to put a giant Godzilla footprint on the building, crashing half of it, with Godzilla waaay in the distance heading for the city. But I don't have da skillz for that one. :)

Awesome man!!!! simply great

Post by **OhMyHead** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:57 am

Thanks, Decipher! The ETQW one was way more difficult than the ID4. There are about 8 different elements to that one. Almost everything going on in that pic was taken from a different screenshot.

dickcheneyhunting · Post by **dickcheneyhunting** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:19 pm

Man I need some tutorials cause the only thing I can do is paintbrush on gimp 2.

Post by **KrispyKritter** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:56 pm

OhMyHead wrote:Thanks! Here's the other. It stinks, and it cut into my Fallout 3 time, but I wanted to show you that you can do just about anything you can imagine with any original pic.

I also wanted to put a giant Godzilla footprint on the building, crashing half of it, with Godzilla waaay in the distance heading for the city. But I don't have da skillz for that one. :)

I Like It!

But, you have to take the clouds out. They appear too low for that type of cloud and there are no shadows under them.

You could put a side-shot of a pair of tiny jets over the ocean, as if they are circling to observe the alien craft.

Or the wakes of Marines' landing craft coming ashore as armored aliens drop to earth under pyramidal parachutes.

or...

Post by **OhMyHead** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:09 pm

LOL @ Krispy! All good ideas.

Yeah, the sky, that's why I said it stinks. I couldn't do the ID4 with the original sky in the original pic. So I replaced the sky with like the first one I found. The biggest hassle with the whole thing was that wrong sky meeting the fuzzy crappy horizon. And of course the clouds being all wrong.

But I have much fun doing stuff like this. It serves no other purpose really. Like most things I do. :D

So here, if anyone comes across some pic, any pic, and wants to post it up here, I will try to do something fun with it. And of course everyone else is welcome to do the same. This is basically just a rip-off of what Fark is doing. But the shoppers there are insanely talented (and have a several hour long head start before the original is posted for us non-paying scum) and the general population of Farkers aren't the nicest people in the world. So I'd rather do this stuff here amongst the cool people.

dickcheneyhunting · Post by **dickcheneyhunting** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:44 pm

Thanks for the cool compliment.

But any advice for a gimp/photoshop newbie?

Post by **OhMyHead** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:58 pm

I haven't used Photoshop since version 4, and I've never used Gimp, but I am told Gimp is fully equipped to do this sort of thing.

The reeeeeally hard way, which is the way I've been doing these for years, is to not use layers. I only started using layers like last week! And it is SO much easier. So read the Help content on layers.

But I think the most important thing is to learn what tools you use to outline stuff. Like how I cut out half a castle and put it into another environment. Once you find the right tool, read the Help content on that as well. I use Paint Shop Pro 7. The Selection tool has free hand, point-to-point, and other functions to grab what you need and pull it outta there.

But really, it's practice that will eventually get you doing stuff that some folks might see and want you to design websites and such for them.

So anyone care to post a pic for me to mess with? I've got a few hours before my next meeting...

dickcheneyhunting · Post by **dickcheneyhunting** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:11 pm

All I understood was read the manual.

I will if I can find some time, but man I hate having to read the manuel.

We have technology now have the manuel available as a tutorial people!

Post by **OhMyHead** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:27 pm

LOL Yeah, sorry about that. I'll look for a good Gimp tutorial for ya, DCH.

Post by **OhMyHead** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:16 am

DCH, I'm afraid you'll have no choice but to do some reading. Hopefully though, these tutorials will be helpful anyway!

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

http://www.gimptalk.com/

Post by **bibizz944x** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:26 am

OhMyHead wrote:You put Theme: Animals, that's what confused me. No, you posted a pic and I manipulated it in some way. That's the idea. Not sure what Bibi is thinking though.

im sorry