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.
For all you awesome people, it's just Phoenix. The numbers are just the amount of times people misspell it.
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.
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!
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.
Last edited by masamuneehs; Tue, 03-14-2006 at 10:22 AM.
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
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.
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
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
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.
I'm official.
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%.
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.
Neither of these were rendered by me, I found them on a render site and I thought everyone might like a Vincent render
@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.
This fantastic Sousuke sig was made by the one and only Lucifus! Thanks man!
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.
Last edited by PSJ; Wed, 03-22-2006 at 10:10 AM.
Couple FMA renders by me
Last edited by LaZie; Wed, 03-22-2006 at 10:29 AM.
The first and third ones look hot. Good Job Lazy!
For all you awesome people, it's just Phoenix. The numbers are just the amount of times people misspell it.
I must be totally nuts for spending hours for this, but I wanted to finish it, despite all the trouble:
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.
Edit:
@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.
Last edited by Kraco; Sat, 03-25-2006 at 05:45 AM.
I enhanced it to get those colors, but the original pic was very good quality to.
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