Loco

I know I told you guys that I wouldnt post here anymore, though I just want to let you know about my progress. I used the Gimp program, and then I used the "Copy Tool" (or what its called). One portrait came out fine as hell, though I cant post it here due to obvious reasons. Anyway by using that tool it does work to take away the Watermark, though it takes a lot of time and patience, you might have to do it over and over again a couple of times. The thing is that it works so fine because the portraits will be smaller when applying to Baldurs Gate, so it will look a lot better on those smaller resolutions... It should be known though that the portrait that turned out fine for me, were good even on a higher resolution. Beginners luck id say, and about an hours work! Well I had spare time to kill ;D

Oh it should be known. If you do like to hunt down paintings and arts and such. This is the site to enter "www.deviantart.com"

Where do you find these Loco?

These ones espacialy comes from a artist called nathie...
Link to her/his site is here (this site you CAN download the artists paintings, no limits, very good qualite).

http://nathie.deviantart.com/gallery/#

"Hagen von Tronje" is my favourite portrait, without a doubt! I hope nathie doesnt track me down and shout nasty words at me now, for posting links and such

I'm not the kind of person who would tell you how to remove watermarks from copyrighted material, but if I were, I would tell you to google the words "gimp rubber stamp tool". Just sayin'.

Small print: The above non-advice was not provided by the person going by the screen name berelinde, and even if it was, it would be for the sole purpose of enabling a BG2 fan to convert some artwork for his sole personl use, not to be redistributed, repackaged, etc., etc.

Thanks Berelinde, lets see what I can come up with from google ;D. You answered my first question just fine, so now I wont post more in this thread(am afraid we already went off topic), unless more help will be provided and I must thank them as well ;D. Thanks again for the help people!

One last question though... If I want to post custom portraits somewhere, which thread would that be? I have loads
Most are from unknown artists, which I have no clue who made actualy.

With that image, I'd just crop it at the bottom of the beard and be done with it. Sure, you lose the cool medallion, but you get the awesome tattoos.

Hahaha, the tattos are nice to, true! But I want the medalion... I need it !! I need it all, Arghh .. hehehe, Now I sound completely psycho, which for the record I aint ;D

In this case, you could just crop the image to the subject's head and shoulders like other BG portraits. There's no way you'd want to use that full image for a portrait. As for how to do that, just draw a rectangle around the part you want and "cut" or "crop" - you can even do that in MS Paint. Just follow the specs for portraits in the readme in your game folder.

There are other better portraits... Though those ones have the watermark right on top of them.