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[Archmage Silver]

Since I've been starting quite a many topics here recently, I'll start this one and add any future portrait edits to this thread. And I'll start with my favourite rogue portrait edit, of which I now made a larger sized version. The original is on the left and my edit on the right. Any comments are welcome.

Edited by Archmage Silver, 16 September 2010 - 12:01 PM.

[Kania]

What a nice rogue! The edited one looks... I dunno... younger? I think so, but as he has no wrinkles at all on his face, he looks like not quite alive. How shall I put it? Like it's an oil painting on the wall, not a live-photo like your avatar for example.

[Archmage Silver]

Yeah, I was aiming for a younger look, but I may have overdone it, as I now see when I look at it. Thanks for pointing it out, I sometimes go for a too perfect look that doesn't really look human, just like a painting as you said. So, how's this?

Edited by Archmage Silver, 16 September 2010 - 12:01 PM.

[ronin]

The edited one does look younger and the overall picture looks smoother and easier on the eyes. Excellent work dewd, keep it up

ronin

[Archmage Silver]

The edited one does look younger and the overall picture looks smoother and easier on the eyes. Excellent work dewd, keep it up

ronin

Thanks a lot! I'll keep posting these once in a while, when I actually manage to get started on some portrait ... that can be difficult, ya know.

[Kania]

Niiiice! Just... a little-little wrinkle under his eyes will be fine, I think... yep, yep, I'm a pest, I know.

[Archmage Silver]

Niiiice! Just... a little-little wrinkle under his eyes will be fine, I think... yep, yep, I'm a pest, I know.

Check how you like the latest edit now.

Here's a new edit, from NWN. Original on the left.

Edited by Archmage Silver, 16 September 2010 - 12:01 PM.

[Kania]

Pretty-pretty! And the girl is great too! Hmm, considering her hair colour, what about making her a Drow?

[Celestine]

Its great, the girl now doesn't look like she has a crooked mouth. Excellent work! Also, the image looks sharper and still smooth at the same time, the original has this blurry look that I don't quite like.

Edited by Celestine, 20 December 2005 - 01:45 AM.

[Archmage Silver]

Its great, the girl now doesn't look like she has a crooked mouth. Excellent work! Also, the image looks sharper and still smooth at the same time, the original has this blurry look that I don't quite like.

Thanks, much appreciated.

Pretty-pretty! And the girl is great too! Hmm, considering her hair colour, what about making her a Drow?

Check this then:

Edited by Archmage Silver, 16 September 2010 - 12:02 PM.

[Kania]

AAAAHHHHH!!! She is mine, this drow-girl is mine! She'll be my Protagonist in my next BG1, ToSC, SoA and ToB!!!

[Archmage Silver]

AAAAHHHHH!!! She is mine, this drow-girl is mine! She'll be my Protagonist in my next BG1, ToSC, SoA and ToB!!!

Heh heh, pleased to please ye.

[Miss Sakaki]

Her new clothes and the scarf are gorgeous, and I like the sharpening of the face. I do have a niggle about her lips, though - they look a little too glossed for a fantasy setting.

[Archmage Silver]

Her new clothes and the scarf are gorgeous, and I like the sharpening of the face. I do have a niggle about her lips, though - they look a little too glossed for a fantasy setting.

Thanks. Heh, well, if you look at the original portrait you'll see that they were that to begin with, and I may have made them more so, but let me assure you that it was intentional and a necessary part of her looks. Even if no one else had invented make-up in FR, at least the priestesses of Sune would have... so, I think it isn't that out of ordinary.

[Yovaneth]

Umm... sorry to be picky but... during the conversion to Drow you've lost the highlighting on the skin and so it's made the entire face look flat. Tweaking Curves might help, or if really pushed, selecting the areas with a feather of e.g. 3 and then a new Adjustment Layer for Levels should do the trick? Only a trying-to-be-helpful suggestion.

-Y-

[Archmage Silver]

Umm... sorry to be picky but... during the conversion to Drow you've lost the highlighting on the skin and so it's made the entire face look flat. Tweaking Curves might help, or if really pushed, selecting the areas with a feather of e.g. 3 and then a new Adjustment Layer for Levels should do the trick? Only a trying-to-be-helpful suggestion.

-Y-

Well, I don't really see it there... the light and dark areas make it look good for my eyes... well, I can't really say if it's my eyesight that's playing tricks on me or not. Could be.

[Archmage Silver]

Another one, a dwarf this time. Original on the right.

Edited by Archmage Silver, 16 September 2010 - 12:01 PM.

[Black Mage]

Ooh, I like the eyes. I think the tone on the skin between the eyes and nose (cheekbones?) is a tad too yellow though. Either that, or the tone under the eyes is too pink.

[John]

Wow man I love them!
Can i request one?lol...
make a remake of a orc!
haha

[Archmage Silver]

Ooh, I like the eyes. I think the tone on the skin between the eyes and nose (cheekbones?) is a tad too yellow though. Either that, or the tone under the eyes is too pink.

Yeah, you're right there... how do you think this cuts it? I think I got it now (New one on the left).

Wow man I love them!
Can i request one?lol...
make a remake of a orc!
haha

I'll see what I can do.

Edited by Archmage Silver, 16 September 2010 - 12:01 PM.