Author Topic: How do you work? (visual art) (Read 9741 times)

Bajsefar · « **on:** January 03, 2008, 06:47:01 pm »

Ok, I just finished a long string of messing around with a picture on my puter, but I started thinking on how I did it, and got curious if (certainly) there are other ways to do it.
Now, I wanted to share my work progress, feel fre to comment- that's what I'm fishimg for (tips and tricks).

Okay..

I started out with this picture, a lovely shot of my own face that i got while messing around with the camera.

This was the only pic being on the hard drive of my new laptop during Christmas break, of course, I got bored without internet and messed alot around with that pic.

Mspaint'd with this result. (saved as black/white BMP, then straightened all the edges with line tool.)

Got bored yet again, and decided to add colours.
At this point, I had of course made all the fills ''flat'' as to allow for easy manipulation with my sparse software. (mspaint)

Then guess what happened; I grew bored again and decided to add highlights to the picture, and also maybe change the colours. (I consider this to be one of the funniest parts, because the highlights were added following my assumption of where they would be looking at the single-coloured surface that my face had become through primitive manipulation with file types. Which means that it is now becoming lesser and lesser my face, and is turning into a product of my own mind.)
Highlights
Highlights (colour variation)

Then i got home, with internet 'n all, and the work stopped for a while... Until last night, when I could not sleep, I was wondering if I could make a collage with mspaint; it should be possible if using the paste option where you do not ''overwrite'' with parts that are white. (or what you have selected as your secondary colour, I think..)

Keeping it very simple, because it took me some time to figure out how to add more than one texture without making lots of ''holes'' where a picture had pure white in it, I made This.

Since I had aqquired photoshop at arriving home, i decided to try a couple of things, I mixed some of the pictures i had made previously with the ''collage'' using the different blend options, and saved those who turned out nice. Although this was the point that it started to get uninteresting, because photoshop was so much easier than paint..

Variation
Variation
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Knowitall66 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2008, 10:46:31 pm »

Not be rude but i think all the bottom variations look really terrible using Photoshop you could do much better then to just recolour. Also why do you use jpeg? It is the worst quality i always use png unless i want my picture grainy.

Caveman · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2008, 11:20:13 pm »

Strange, I see only 2 jpegs, the rest are png. Look again?

Survivor · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2008, 11:56:02 pm »

On the highest quality level of both you rarely notice the difference between .jpg and .png, unless you're actually one of those people that likes looking at pixels instead of pictures.

Knowitall66 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:17:49 am »

I ment oridginal picture is terrible quality nvm. True Survivor, but most people use low quality jpegs.

Caveman · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:40:18 am »

Quote from: Bajsefar on January 03, 2008, 06:47:01 pm

I started out with this picture...
This was the only pic being on the hard drive of my new laptop during Christmas break...

Does anyone beside me notice that Mr.Knowitall does not live up to his name?

Knowitall66 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:58:51 am »

Winston - Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense
Fine what ever you win.

AppleJuice · « **Reply #7 on:** January 04, 2008, 03:51:00 pm »

Quote from: Caveman on January 04, 2008, 12:40:18 am

Quote from: Bajsefar on January 03, 2008, 06:47:01 pm
I started out with this picture...
This was the only pic being on the hard drive of my new laptop during Christmas break...

Does anyone beside me notice that Mr.Knowitall does not live up to his name?

Does anyone notice Caveman lives up to his

thirdstreettito · « **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2008, 04:07:48 pm »

DO NOT ENLARGE ORIGINAL PICTURE!

Yeah we dont know what Caveman can live up to....sad.

Bajsefar · « **Reply #9 on:** January 04, 2008, 07:19:51 pm »

It's a phone camera.
The photosho pictures are not made to archieve the greatest result possible.
I just dabbled around.
And then i made this post, hoping that for example mr. knowitall- who obviously is so awesome in photoshop could share me some of his tricks.
And that's not recolouring at all, it's even simpler- different ways of mixing any 2 of the earlier pictures.
Thanks.

And what i really meant by this post was: If you were doing something similar, or any editing at all for that case- Post the progress... ..How you did it in here.
I am intereseted, and it does not need to be anything overly fancy.
It does not even need to be finished.

Basilisco · « **Reply #10 on:** January 04, 2008, 08:08:35 pm »

Had photoshop running.. so wth..

Knowitall66 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 04, 2008, 11:08:45 pm »

I don't use Photoshop. I use Paint.NET. Here is a entirely random version:

Bajsefar · « **Reply #12 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:01:47 pm »

This is nice. This is what I was fishing after. :>
Basilico, tell me how you did that- I'm not very good at photoshop, hardly know all the functions etc.
Knowitall, i like your iPictures, how? I don't use Paint.net (downloaded and tried, but not enough to learn it).
I also like what you did to the picture of me- although I like Basilico's better, but they both have their appeals.
I guess i could just use toturials for learning more of photoshop/flash/whatever, but i phail at using them, because then i have to come up with an actual thing that I'd like to learn, and I want to know EVERYTHING, so I never know where to start. ^^

I guess experimenting is my way.
Which is what I'm gonna do. I was inspired.

Keep posting plx, I want to stay inspired.

Edit: can a mod please delete post 3-9, since they are not really on-topic, and makes it tiresome to scroll down to the real meat.

thirdstreettito · « **Reply #13 on:** January 05, 2008, 04:50:44 pm »

Mine are bestest and funniest

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb13/thirdstreettito/6pi6qfb.png

Bajsefar · « **Reply #14 on:** January 05, 2008, 04:53:09 pm »

Yeah, ok.
I was wondering how you managed to get all that -karma.
Even if that was a joke- it was a bad one.
AND you posted an incredibly huge picture... keep it in links or thumbnails.

thirdstreettito · « **Reply #15 on:** January 05, 2008, 05:50:19 pm »

well get a wide screen and why cant anyone take a joke jeeze.

Bajsefar · « **Reply #16 on:** January 05, 2008, 07:59:01 pm »

I've got a widescreen.

Hell- I've even got two screens connected.

Your picture was still too big for the forum.

Thanks for putting your pic in a link instead.

I took the joke but it was unlaughable. Sorry.

Basilisco · « **Reply #17 on:** January 05, 2008, 08:10:55 pm »

Baj, here's the link to the .PSD:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ffeq8a

If you don't want to download it here's the list of layers:

Knowitall66 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 05, 2008, 10:17:38 pm »

Well with my IPics i sorta cheated

. A while back i made a map with various coloured rooms (Main reason being backrounds with similar building colours get annoying (Freeform select takes to long:P)) then went ingame built something screenied it then in Paint.NET used Magic wand with minimal tolerence delete back round. Then select different colour parts for the telenode (or whatever) filled them with white. selected the rest of the object and filled it with black. Added 'ISomthing' text and yeah not difficult yet good result.
Some more 'Ipodding'(yeah its a strange name but that;s what i call the folder)
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p32/knowitall66/IKillPeople.png
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p32/knowitall66/ISlice.png

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p32/knowitall66/Shabazz.png
Some Sigs
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p32/knowitall66/StarrySigv2.png - Made a fractal (with Chaoscope) added a hexi grid selected parts of it deleted it from fractal pic. Duplicated layer made a new layer with text (Knowitall66) selected outside of text(Magic wand) deleted selection from duplicated fractal layer. Made tex white put in behind the top fractal layer added glow to it. Turned bottom layer black and white. (soz quickly written)
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p32/knowitall66/hmm2.png - Fractal + text and glow
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p32/knowitall66/Test1.gif - Random
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p32/knowitall66/Needsbackround.png - Tree gen/glow

If you want inspiration try here: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1072&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=11235
Its 'The pictorium' On the Paint.NET forums, though i recommend you look through it backwards as the threads starts with people using lower versions of Paint.NET. (763 pages to date)

Bajsefar · « **Reply #19 on:** January 05, 2008, 11:46:43 pm »

Quote from: Basilisco on January 05, 2008, 08:10:55 pm

Stuff.

Whoa. You've got a better comprehension than me about what can be done with photoshop..
Cool.
You spark my imagination.
Not time to post more ATM, but knowitall's stuff was kinda kewl too- but i liked your iTrem pics best...

Worked on a pic in the meantime... ..The object is still my face because i lack the imagination to try anything else, and it was fun to work with- with all the variations i have of it etc..

http://i9.tinypic.com/6oy8syd.png

mooseberry · « **Reply #20 on:** January 21, 2008, 06:17:06 am »

Well I know that this is a bit of necro, but I decided to do some of my own.

They are all done in a program called texture maker.

Feedback would be appreciated since I am VERY new at this.

My three favorites:

plus 3 others:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/2208032025_13f1429cfe.jpg
and
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2374/2208032015_dfdb089527.jpg
and
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2128/2208032007_1743e50f3d.jpg

+ OPTIMUS + · « **Reply #21 on:** January 21, 2008, 09:50:55 am »

in case you didn't know:

move the cursor onto a layer (effect or basic doesn't matter).

press alt and keep holding. icon changes when you are on the edge between two layers.

push button.

now the layer slides inside a bit, that means it only affects the layer below.

you can use multiplye layers doing this.

enjoy life.

mooseberry · « **Reply #22 on:** January 21, 2008, 06:19:49 pm »

Thanks.

Knowitall66 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 23, 2008, 10:26:14 pm »

Not that this was difficult to create but a tremtage:

(Click for full size (Actually Resolution is 1280x1024 but photobucket didnt allow

))

mooseberry · « **Reply #24 on:** January 24, 2008, 12:45:29 am »

Quote from: Knowitall66 on January 23, 2008, 10:26:14 pm

Not that this was difficult to create but a tremtage:
[fakepic]Pic[/fakepic]
(Click for full size (Actually Resolution is 1280x1024 but photobucket didnt allow ))

Cool idea.

You should have a Tremulous logo in the middle.

Basilisco · « **Reply #25 on:** January 24, 2008, 02:19:03 am »

Quote from: Knowitall66 on January 23, 2008, 10:26:14 pm

Actually Resolution is 1280x1024 but photobucket didnt allow ))

Not a resolution problem, but a size problem. Photobucket's limit is 5 MB.. Try jpeg instead

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