Bursk

Thanks a lot, Qwinn!

Just to add my (2p, 2c - pick your country); I cannot remember the last time I played any form of BG2 without your replacement avatars. It really is obvious how much work has gone into this project and I too am very, very grateful for it. Absolutely brilliant work - my eternal thanks for your time and effort.

-Y-

It's funny that you should say that, because it's now second nature to play the game with 1PP installed. Occasionally, after doing a fresh install, I'll load up the game and just dick around a little, and will be horrified by the stock graphics!

Hey, that new version is really good!

I agree that there's no practical reason to spend ages tweaking the portrait, but I've actually started enjoying doing this. I think I'll spend a little while working on your polished version, vilkacis, just to make sure that all the lines are as clean as possible (like I said, more for fun than anything). I'll upload the finished version once it's done; may not be for another week or so.

Thanks again for all your help.

For anyone who's interested, here's what I've managed to do so far. I did have some trouble doing the highlighted areas, as even the smallest Liquify brush size is still a little bigger than the area I want to use it on. Still, after carefully checking each of my changes against the original, I'm pretty happy with the results. It's not exactly the same, but it's pretty close I reckon.

I'm going to continue working on it tomorrow.

Thanks again, vilkacis.

I've borrowed my mate's copy of Photoshop 7, and have spent about 5 hours playing around with the Liquify filter, and I simply cannot get the part where the edge of the cloak disappears off to the side to look right. I either have the angle of the cloak all wrong, or the edge of the cloak doesn't look right compared to the rest of it (I see you had a similar problem).

I think I'll just send Hathor an email and hope that he/she can do this edit for me.

I hope I don't sound ungrateful, vilkacis, and appreciate your help.

Edit: I've sent the Email. I've decided to have another go at editing the remainder of the picture, but will leave the edge of the cloak alone for the time being. If Hathor does pop in, then hopefully by then only the cloak will need doing.