Photoshop Fun

thatmariolover · 10-04-2004, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

Filter's are awesome, but it's also cool if you can learn to effectivaly use brushing techniques. Be sure to look at some tutorials on that kind of stuff as well.

Thanks for the tip. I'll be reading up on them.

Edit:

Just thought I'd add this pic. I'm pretty sure this thread is going to die. In case that happens, my pictures can be found at http://thatmariolover.deviantart.com (that's not really advertisement - just FYI).

And I did this photo manipulation today.

GameMaster · 10-05-2004, 12:59 AM

A Mario Shadow, that's great! Now you have to add Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Bowser and then make it wallpaper size.

thatmariolover · 10-05-2004, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

A Mario Shadow, that's great! Now you have to add Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Bowser and then make it wallpaper size.

Haha. I'll have to find a picture with more room, eh?

Typhoid · 10-05-2004, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

Haha. I'll have to find a picture with more room, eh?

No, just change the shadows of the kids to the afformentioned characters.

Crash · 10-05-2004, 02:07 AM

heh, typhoid, plus rep for the cool avatar!

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thatmariolover · 10-05-2004, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

No, just change the shadows of the kids to the afformentioned characters.

That could be a lot of work. I'll have to puzzle out a technique for it.

I came up with a really interesting technique to make Mario's shadow look better against the wall. I copied large portions of the kid's shadows and pasted them into a new file and duplicated that same piece of shadow, trying to make it as big (and non-repetitious) as possible. Then I saved it as a pattern, selected the shadow for Mario, and filled it with that new pattern. Then I just messed around with opacity for a bit until I got it as good as I could get it.

Typhoid · 10-05-2004, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by thatmariolover

That could be a lot of work. I'll have to puzzle out a technique for it.

I came up with a really interesting technique to make Mario's shadow look better against the wall. I copied large portions of the kid's shadows and pasted them into a new file and duplicated that same piece of shadow, trying to make it as big (and non-repetitious) as possible. Then I saved it as a pattern, selected the shadow for Mario, and filled it with that new pattern. Then I just messed around with opacity for a bit until I got it as good as I could get it.

Man, there is a WAY easier way.

Just find pics of the characters, then make them into silhouettes (turn them black) then just make them semi-opaque.

thatmariolover · 10-05-2004, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

Man, there is a WAY easier way.

Just find pics of the characters, then make them into silhouettes (turn them black) then just make them semi-opaque.

Right. But I was trying to match them up with the characters on the wall that were already there. And they had a special color to their shadow (kind of a bluish purple hue) and I couldn't get it right with a color overlay or an adjustment layer (even with an eye dropper tool). I tried and tried.

Oh - and the desktop is on the way Canny