The "Clegged Up" Thread - Page 15

Canaris · 2012-06-25, 05:32 AM

we're being sucked into another wormhole, full power to the engines!

Nazzov · 2012-06-25, 10:09 AM

Papa Smurf, Elmo, Clegg and Barney.

(Forgive me if I have the names wrong, I could only find Papa Smurf's name in an SOE post or tweet.)

Canaris · 2012-06-25, 12:05 PM

Whalenator · 2012-06-25, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Nazzov

Papa Smurf, Elmo, Clegg and Barney.

(Forgive me if I have the names wrong, I could only find Papa Smurf's name in an SOE post or tweet.)

Any Betas in there?

n2q0_matrix · 2012-06-25, 05:45 PM

I no haz photoshop.

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Luieburger · 2012-06-25, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by n2q0_matrix

I no haz photoshop.

Who needs photoshop?

http://www.getpaint.net/

Layers - Check
Auto selection tool thingy - Check

You're good to go!

Electrofreak · 2012-06-25, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Luieburger

Who needs photoshop?

http://www.getpaint.net/

Layers - Check
Auto selection tool thingy - Check

You're good to go!

I spent a few weekends playing around in GIMP (free, open source) and this is what I've made, for my signature, this thread and others, from oldest to most recent.

Not hard to get reasonably good with a little practice!

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Absentis · 2012-06-26, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

I'd like to know how this one was done to get the net over the galaxy.

Captain1nsaneo · 2012-06-27, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by Absentis

I'd like to know how this one was done to get the net over the galaxy.

I don't know how Electro did it but I would have used 3 layers with the original image copied twice and the gal sandwiched between and then cut away at the top image until what I wanted came through. Probably use transparency as a temporary setting to help me see what I was doing along with some magic wand and delete magic.

Nazzov · 2012-06-27, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Captain1nsaneo

I don't know how Electro did it but I would have used 3 layers with the original image copied twice and the gal sandwiched between and then cut away at the top image until what I wanted came through. Probably use transparency as a temporary setting to help me see what I was doing along with some magic wand and delete magic.

I don't know if Gimp has the same options, but that is also how I would have done it in Photoshop.

Electrofreak · 2012-06-27, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by Absentis

I'd like to know how this one was done to get the net over the galaxy.

A solid background made it easy for me to chop the whale and net out and fill the background back again. Then I did a selection by color. Because the net in the original picture is the same color as the background and the whale is white, I needed to get the net off and change the color to white. After I'd selected the net by color, I then cut the net out, made it a new layer, disposing of the whale. Then I used Colorize to remove the color from the net and make it white like the threads. I then put the net layer over the top of the Gal layer I'd pasted in and did a transform on the net until it fit. I also did a little bit of manual work with the clone tool to make it look right around the edges.

However, the whale and the Gal were not same shape and size, and the threads were held a little differently by the birds, so I had to manually recreate the ropes.

I did this by creating paths from the net to the birds, stroking the paths with a thin white line with a Gaussian blur applied. This recreated the threads. I had to move the birds around too to make it look right. It actually ended up being quite a bit of work for me, though in retrospect I could probably do it a lot faster now that I've learned from it.

For reference:

One of these days I'll go back and edit the second thread from the left to come in front of the right engine on the Gal, it's bothering me.

Like I said, I'm really an amateur to all of this. I just spend hours playing around with crap and reading GIMP tutorials until I learn.