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[Solar's Harper]

I don't know why this idea didn't come across my mind until just now.
We all know how much of a bother it can be to be satisfied with certain pictures whenever we tweak them, be they just pictures, or avatars, photos or whatever, it always happens eventually.

So anyways, if you've got picture that you want to match with their differences (even your avvys) with other people's opinions being made about them, feel free to post them.

Remember tho, only constructive criticism if there is any criticism at all. Be respectful of each other's workings, even if it wasn't originally your own work.

It would also be good if you could attach the original pic before the changed one, so we can all see the difference.
Ok, thats all I can say.

Friendly comments welcome, unconstructive criticism and the like is not

[Solar's Harper]

Ok here's a rough preview of what I'm talking about.
My Avatar has heaps of variable pics now.

Original:

Variables:






In order from the top left:

1: Light Red
2: Golden
3: Dark Red
4: Fire
5: Pink
6: Navy (dark blue)
7: Sky (light blue)
8: Light Green

Thoughts anyone?

Edited by Solar's Harper, 18 September 2007 - 02:40 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

O'Keys, I do not know wetter the original work was your's, but you wouldn't mind making the all the hair same colored, as there is quite much of the original white color in them still, especially in his front. And then there is the wrong ear color high light . I know that that's asking a lot, but then again you have to get to know the tools you work with to get the right results, so if you can't do it yet, you'll just need to study more.
P.S. And when you get that done, could you teach it to me too?!?

I like the 6th and the 7th the most as they, for me, are suited the best in the forest scene.

[Solar's Harper]

Thanks for pointing out that ear problem Jarno, when i was viewing it photoshop i didn't pick that up.

Anyways the original work isn't mine, save prehaps the change in eye color, it was originally white but I ended up losing the original by accident so i settled for the next closest thing. I recall posting a link to it back in the rate the avatar thread in the Rec Room, check back a bit and you should find it. I'll look for the pic myself and replace the white haired one when I find it.

Anyways, nothing really techinical, just a bit of changing in color variations once you have selected various components of the pic with one of the tools in Adobe Photoshop, there's a menu option that allows you to tinker with it any way you want.
After that, just let it auto contrast the selected areas before deselecting, and violla.

That was the whole procedure for me, really basic, as is my nature.
Anyways, glad you like 6 and 7, I'll try to make 'em better for ya since after all i generally keep a copy of my work somewhere, unless the issue mentioned before happens.

Thanks for the help.

[berelinde]

I kind of like the original drow coloring. Sorry, but it looks like your avatar was attending the Imoen school of cosmetology.

[Solar's Harper]

I'd say the pink one definetly was Imoen's work.

Thanks B

And please remember everyone that this thread is welcoming Everyone to show off their graphical crafts, even if the original work isn't their own. (after all we are not trying to sell for commercial profit here are we? that'd just be illegal.)

Come on don't be shy
Show us what you can come up with from a piece of existing work or photo, its worth the effort trust me.
I'm already taking your advice to heart Jarno, and now yours too berelinde, so thanks again.

[Jarno Mikkola]

OK, this was originally made of Kulyok's avatar, so sorry to you.
Original:

My variant:

Now everybody should what's really going on.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 24 September 2007 - 09:09 AM.

[Solar's Harper]

Meh this is a habit I seem to be unable to shake. Here's another motley lot
In other words the usual avvys I use for the Bhaalspawn female PCs.

Template:

Variants:








1. Redhead
2. Green
3. Violet
4. Blonde
5. Navy
6. Dark Tint (forgot the color)
7. Black

What's the opinion? Cute isn't she?

Edit: Whoops sorry Jarno forgot to comment: that looks great

Edited by Solar's Harper, 24 September 2007 - 10:54 AM.

[Deathsangel]

Oh, nice. Where can you get here portait? Except for the unnatural colours, not that much into manga and the like, I like the new versions

[Solar's Harper]

hm i can't recall exactly where I grabbed this from, it was either some random place i found on google or one of the packages over at sorcerers.net, either way it's been awhile since I looked that way so can't say for sure.

Sorry I can't be more helpful than this, i ended up deleting the zip archive that i got my favorite pics from quite awhile ago.

[Rastor]

That picture is in one of the portrait packs that I uploaded to Sorcerer's Place (I think the one that's 200 female pics or something like that).

[Solar's Harper]

Come on people, I'm starting to feel like I'm hogging the thread... hang on I am
Meh, anyways:

Note to everyone, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP IS A PAIN!!!!

Template:

Drow Transformation:

More Blur:

Now I know she hasn't got White silvery Hair, but that was even harder to do than the skin color, and even Auto Contrast kinda messed that up.

Anyways here's the link, thanks Choo Choo to where I found her http://www.kirith.com/

Edit: And btw people I do know Drow are not nessecaryily blue, I'm still experimenting tho and Photoshop isn't much for working nicely with me, so yeah, be patient.

And remember people, your variations if you wish to share, now have a home

Edited by Solar's Harper, 27 September 2007 - 01:54 AM.

[WeeRLegion]

Oooh, pretty pretty genie, genie genie.
Make sure you don't get carried away with blurring stuff, blur is good for only a few things.



Ohh well, i figure i can post some of my non-original picture edits.... Ehhehh.... Old avatar images made for people and such randomness... O_O

Added the bottle by request.


Avvy for myself, once upon a time on a board, far far away. xP


Avvy for a friend, obviously added the elephant face.


Edited colors, added fancy grid.


Now this is actually a picture i took. Except I re-angled the sewer hatch, and added the green-tinted hands, yeah...


Übar simple color edit; wanted it more aggressive.



Now some BG portrait edits:


Hmmm...
A sig then: The guy requested a sig with precisely the text it has, and who was i not to make a mockery of him? ^^


A gothic 3 birdie beast (name escapes me, maybe scavenger as the pic name is xP), cropped up and edge-shaded for avatar use.


A 100ton Atlas battlemech scanned from mechcommander manual... Added background and such.


IIRC, i made this to illustrate a point for a debate. xP


A friend of mine, with a twist:


Oh, these two actually fit the thread quite well:


Here i just gave the pic some fancy rays of light:


Same base image, but now it's night and it's FIRE. O_O





Whoopsie, I didn't mean to hijack the thread... xP

Edited by WeeRLegion, 27 September 2007 - 03:38 AM.

[Choo Choo]

My ridiculously ugly 2-minute-recolour of the same picture as Solar..

This is what happens when someone used to recolouring in PS tries to do it in PI..

Hope someone's eyes didn't start bleeding.

(I'll make a better one once my PS starts working! I promise!)

[Solar's Harper]

Not exactly A grade quality, but this is just a more blurry version of Jojo's variation, with a bit of contrast.

[Choo Choo]

This isn't exactly top quality, either, but at least it's better than the other one..

[Solar's Harper]

Looks nice CC.

Ok, these are variations of the black haired version I have above. But with different eye colors.






1. Light Blue
2. Red
3. Green
4. Purple
5. Black tint
6. Dark Blue
7. Feline (Yellow)

Edit: Fixed a mistake and added:

Was planning on also changing her skin color, maybe add in a tattoo or two.
Oi! None of those thoughts please.

Anyways, please keep your variations coming people, some nice works have been produced thus far.

Edited by Solar's Harper, 06 October 2007 - 06:47 AM.

[Mikos Valdemar]

I did these a few months ago using JPS's very nice armorless Aerie pic as a base (found here: G3 JPS gallery).

My reasons being I had come across some differently coloured Aerie pics before, but couldn't find them in the larger sizes or sans armor. So I did these with the Gimp in what I'm sure was the long way around ( color layer over b&wlayer, erasing the hair so only the bw version showed through and then adding color to the B&W layer blah blah - took forever)

So here goes:

Purple!

Bright Blue!

Sea Green!


And then two versions of the same color, one with the contrast way up and the other down. Poor Aerie, all those years of torture have turned her prematurely grey...


Believe it or not, I find her less whiney with different hair colours.

[WeeRLegion]

Hmmm, so I got caught up with an idea i had... It's not quite the way I'd want it yet... The idea was to create a basic signature pic style that won't demand for annoyingly much attention.

[Solar's Harper]

Nice work there Mikos, although I admit to be no Aerie fan, those certainly caught my attention.
Heh, and no I wasn't looking lower I was looking at the hair colors, the black ones are my favorites, the one on the left probably more so.

And interesting patterns there Legion, middle one is my fav.