Imax's Picture Thread

**Stack** · 03/03/2007 22:40:57

imax wrote:

You know... it actually makes sense for the smoke trail to be bent a bit near the tip of the gun. If you think about it, your character is flying sideways as the bullet is flying straight forward through the dude. With that in mind, the bullet's ripple and smoke trail should be dead straight, while the smoke trailing from the gun should be bending away from where the bullet first left the gun. Of course, it's probably a bit too far, since bullets move insanely fast and you probably wouldn't have flown through the air far enough for it to be noticable... but it's at least slightly realistic SMILEY

I'd be more worried about the fact that your finger isn't still on the trigger. Unless you fire guns with your thumbs.... SMILEY

**imax** · 03/03/2007 22:56:25

Stack wrote:

You know... it actually makes sense for the smoke trail to be bent a bit near the tip of the gun. If you think about it, your character is flying sideways as the bullet is flying straight forward through the dude. With that in mind, the bullet's ripple and smoke trail should be dead straight, while the smoke trailing from the gun should be bending away from where the bullet first left the gun. Of course, it's probably a bit too far, since bullets move insanely fast and you probably wouldn't have flown through the air far enough for it to be noticable... but it's at least slightly realistic

I'd be more worried about the fact that your finger isn't still on the trigger. Unless you fire guns with your thumbs....

LOL, I know exactly what you mean, and i appreaciate your attention to detail concerning the realism of the picture. Im really a perfectionist when it comes to realism my self. I thought about the whole trigger finger thing, the problem is in order to fix that it basicly needs to be redrawn. Thats just the way the character model is in the screenshot. If you look at the original youll notice i DID actually redraw part of the hand holding the gun. I added more thumb to the pistol grip and even made sure it had the correct shadeing and light source compared to the rest of the hand.

However fixing the trigger finger was a bit beyond my talent. It would take more than clever use of the smudge, burn, and dodge tool to correct that graphic error. SMILEY

[edit] w00t rarebit likeys my piccy SMILEY

**Stack**

You should experiment with the Clone tool, if you haven't already. I use it all the time in Paint Shop Pro to replace UI elements with simple background parts. I even used it once to erase the in-game map and replace it with carpeting. It usually only works well for small things... like erasing fingers from the front of a gun to make it look like they're still on the trigger SMILEY

**imax**

Here somthin I did for my mom, Phluff. Obviously will be used for her new cypherite siggy (traitor)

Original

Havocide

Hmm very nice..i like the eyes and the blue storm..nice job!

**GoDGiVeR**

Good work.

**Phluff**

I think he's a natural. SMILEY

(phinished sig below) SMILEY

Phluff (the traitor)

**Phluff** · 03/05/2007 13:44:14

(oops double post)

**Kemy**

Told this on the ID forum but can't hurt saying it here again: Those eyes are hawt!

**imax**

Ive got an idea i want to do. I'd like to do an enhanced image of someone else screenshot. I was never the best and takeing screenshots but some of you out there can take some GREAT ones.

I'd like anyone or everyone to post a link to an unaltered ingame screen and i will pick the one i like the best to try my stuff on. Note i said link, dont post the actual picture, make a link to it or somthing (i just want to keep the consistancy of this thread the same, Only enhanced images shown, and the originals in links, like in my posts earlier.)

**Roukan**

Knock yourself out with these.

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**imax**

only one person?

**Phluff**

ok... see what you can do with my award winning Phluffinator Photo. SMILEY

click here

**Shinryu**

Very nice work, Imax. One thing I have to mention that hasn't been mentioned yet, however, is the earpiece. Sure it's a little nitpicky, but you should try to make it so that the cord doesn't just end up going into your neck somewhere... then again, if you really are a terminator, I guess that wouldn't be such an odd thing lol

**imax**

Shinryu wrote:

Very nice work, Imax. One thing I have to mention that hasn't been mentioned yet, however, is the earpiece. Sure it's a little nitpicky, but you should try to make it so that the cord doesn't just end up going into your neck somewhere... then again, if you really are a terminator, I guess that wouldn't be such an odd thing lol

LOL, no im not a friggin terminator SMILEY

But the terminator is just so cooooooo.

Yea i actually did extend it down in the Rain pic, but i didnt in the bullet time pic, and the reason is I didnt want to screw up LOL, shamless.