Photoshop Fun

[thatmariolover]

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]

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]

heh, typhoid, plus rep for the cool avatar!



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[thatmariolover]

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]

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]

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

[Canyarion]

Ah thanks. Is my mailbox large enough?? I have nothing in it, so it should be ok.

Edit: Ah ok thanks a lot! It's b-e-a-utiful! +rep!

[thatmariolover]

Wee.. If anybody's a fan of Homestar Runner they might understand this:



I just did that one today for a competition over at strongfans.com.