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The pen tool is better than Poly-Lasso because it allows you to Easily go back and fix any error that might have been made.
Feathering just adds a kind of glow to whatever was cut, so is takes a bit off the render, but not enouph to effect how the work will come out.
Not if you only do it a pixel or two. If you go crazy with it you'll end up with a crap selection though. It is basically used to soften your selection to avoid jagged edges. :D
Sweetness, I'm gonna give this a shoot, Gotta find a decent pic though.
This is just my method so you may not like it. But until you try several different ways you won't find one you like. Good luck!
I have never tried the pen tool for this purpose. It's an interesting idea, though, and seems to be used a lot by people here, and the results are good. However, personally I just use the eraser or brush/mask. That's mainly because I have a Wacom tablet, and I more often than not end up touching the image here and there anyway, fixing minor (or major if needed) things, like originally clipped off parts of the body. Using the eraser is a pain with a mouse, but not with a tablet.
Well, I actually use Gimp so there isn't a Pen tool like the one described, but I did manage to create a Path and turn that into a selection. Still needed some erasing afterwards but this is the final result! Still having some trouble with the hair... crazy spiked bastards!
http://www.gotwoot.net/d/2061-1/uzirender.png
Oh, and I had to basically recreate the bottom half of the uzi, because it was covered in smoke (some is still left along the leg, but I think that looks sorta cool there) and that was an uber pain in the butt.
That's actually MP5k with the short magazine. Good work with it, though. I personally like enhancing and fixing pictures like that. Perhaps because I don't have the skills to draw them from scratch...
The fingers of the left hand could use a bit lighter cell shading.
Got another render. This one's from a doujin cover. It was alot easier to do than the last one, but the original quality was also much lower.
http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/9...nrender3if.png
Kraco, I know I'm supposed to care about stuff like the left hand, but since I'm not using it in any of my own stuff I really am not going to go about fixing it that much... The fingers stand out where they are, but they match the rest of the skin tone pretty well
And, of course after I noticed how poor of a job I did on that hand I went and redid it... Not the skin tone though, just the crummy black edge around it
After my first attempt, I discovered this was a bit harder than I taught it would be...:(
hahaha...man you'll get used to it. then it just takes hella long.
Here's the Amano Ginji I had to cut out for my Thunder Emperor sig. The hair is not perfect but the imperfections are not visible until you zoom in 600%.
http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/343...irender4ex.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...Untitled-2.png
i had to make some of the green flame myself so it looks a bit weird
I actually dont think it looks weird at all. Also, I like the glowing you added to the hand.
You can see where he made the flame himself but it looks good anyway, barely noticeable.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...er/Vincent.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ster/Rukia.png
Neither of these were rendered by me, I found them on a render site and I thought everyone might like a Vincent render :D.
@PSJ: In that Bleach sig you made for DB_Hunter, do you have happen to have that image of Rukia? Its the exact same as this Rukia render I posted but she is in white clothing instead of the regular Shinigami colors. I thought that one looked much better and I was hoping you might still have it.
Ah sorry man, i didn't do that one. Mine was blue with Rukia's face in the background. Can't remember who did the one with white clothing.
EDIT:
Finished that GTO render i announced in the sig/wallpaper thread. Only made one cause the other one wasn't as good as i first thought.
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1...render12kl.png
The first and third ones look hot. Good Job Lazy!
I must be totally nuts for spending hours for this, but I wanted to finish it, despite all the trouble:
http://forums.gotwoot.net/gallery/fi.../2/Mamiya2.png
It's a composite made from screencaps of a recent episode of Magikano, further edited to replace hair on both sides that was cropped in the video. And there was insane amounts of colour bleeding (red from background). Fixing that, including cell shading, took obviously most of the time.
Thanks to BoC for posting the Noiseless Sharpening tutorial. That was used to enhance contrast / sharpness in the pic a little.
A small Momo render/edit (from Shinigami no Ballad) as a bonus here. It looks dull because it was made from the trailer material, which was, to say the least, of terrible quality.
http://forums.gotwoot.net/gallery/fi...7/6/2/momo.png
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@PSJ: That's a very nice render. Was the source material really good, or did you enhance it to get so vibrant colours?
@LaZyKiD: Gotta agree with Phoenix. Although there's nothing wrong with the other two, but obviously in such company they lose some impact factor.
I enhanced it to get those colors, but the original pic was very good quality to.