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Post by Helen on Jan 15, 2011 19:23:23 GMT
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Post by peterpawn on Jan 15, 2011 21:47:47 GMT
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Post by Sarkut on Jan 15, 2011 22:11:04 GMT
Not having the image to look at, it's difficult to say. You might have to do the reflection for each leg individually.
None of the spiders in your link had reflections, but some had shadows
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Post by Helen on Jan 16, 2011 1:45:12 GMT
Well, the shadow that you see right beneath the body, I just wanted to make it into a reflection. I'll see what I can come up with.
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Post by Sargon III on Jan 20, 2011 9:00:06 GMT
It is hard to make a reflection in a 2D graphic, I made this quick video in a 3D program, it is not good quality, and a screen render for a spider like. Yellow is the mirror (reflection), I hope they can help. Attachments:
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Post by barbieq25 on Jan 20, 2011 9:03:43 GMT
Sargon, you are such a wonderful soul! Thank you!
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Post by chrisco97 on Jan 20, 2011 16:44:20 GMT
That is a nice tutorial Sargon! I may use that sometime soon.
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Post by Helen on Apr 4, 2011 16:37:48 GMT
If you take a photo, how would I know where the perspective starts? I'm a having a little trouble with figuring out where to place characters on the book I'm working on now. They're supposed to be in front of Times Square in NYC.
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Post by Leif on Apr 4, 2011 16:56:48 GMT
I don't know if i understand this correct. But if there are buildings in the picture i would make a new layer, and try to draw lines along where the building meets the ground; and the roofs. Or something like that. Those lines may tend to meet somewhere and indicate where the perspective starts. Or maybe not.
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Post by Helen on Apr 4, 2011 17:27:58 GMT
This is what I have so far. I want NYC in the background. The buildings have to be smaller, obviously. Attachments:
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Post by Helen on Apr 4, 2011 17:29:19 GMT
I didn't know how to attach two files (is that even possible?), so I attached it underneath. This is the background I sketched out. In perspective to the characters, how small should the buildings be? Attachments:
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Post by lancemcknight on Apr 4, 2011 23:59:58 GMT
I think the question should be asked backward, as in, how small should the children be to the building? If it was up to me, I would establish the height of the building, and using vanishing point technique, the buildings should gradually be smaller. You could add a bit of Unfocus blur and gradient blur to put more emphasis on the kids. Color is also another way to draw attention to the children. I think if the buildings were somewhat muted compared to the kids, then the reader should be able to immediately recognize what the subject is.
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Post by Possum on Apr 10, 2011 4:53:17 GMT
I've had a little work with spiders in my images and I had the same problem with the reflection and the shadows. What I finally found to work was to make the spider in several layers with each leg being on it's own layer and a leg from each side having it's individual parts each on their own layer. That way you can move the leg parts and or legs reflection to better match your spider. I then used a fading transparent gradient to fade the leg reflection out and to make it transparent. It's really hard to get right and I really never got it as good as I would have liked. That may be because I tend to get impatient on things. For the shadows I used several techniques depending on where the spider was and how it was positioned. I really like the shadow plugin (not drop shadow) as it seems to get it better than I can manually. Good luck !
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Post by Sargon III on Apr 10, 2011 8:35:54 GMT
@ Helen, if you took the photo yourself, or you think that the photo been taken by someone was standing, then use the Eye Level Rule for the perspective: Assume the eye level of your background is the horizon line, and put all the eyes of the people on that line, then the perspective will correct itself automatically, and if you have different ages of people then just put the kids a little bit below the eye level line, don't forget to put the small objects behind the large ones. With this rule the small objects will look far behind and everything will be organized correctly, see this example: The red line is the eye level:
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Post by Helen on Jun 20, 2011 21:02:09 GMT
Is there any way to trick Paint.NET to opening layers in a program like Illustrator? It's probably impossible, but I thought I'd ask.
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Post by Leif on Jun 21, 2011 16:44:08 GMT
Only thing i know is a plug-in called "That other app." But it only opens ONE layer in another program. I don't know if it will help instilling the PSD file format in PDN.
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Post by Pixey on Jun 22, 2011 7:59:44 GMT
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Post by Helen on Aug 5, 2011 18:45:07 GMT
I really need to know how to convert from RGB to CMYK. Here's an e-mail that I got for one of my books I did a while ago.
"The reason the colors in the final print appear different than in the original file is because the images were provided in RGB. When our full color books are sent to press they are printed in the CMYK format. If files are submitted in RGB, the printer will convert it to CMYK at the time of printing and this can lead to variance in some projects."
Tips? Or maybe another way that you know might help?
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Post by lancemcknight on Aug 5, 2011 21:11:06 GMT
Didn't we have this discussion at the old Fans' forum? I seem to recall you asking a similar question.
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Post by Helen on Aug 5, 2011 21:52:12 GMT
I don't think I asked this question. I didn't have a problem with this before.
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Post by Pixey on Aug 7, 2011 7:58:30 GMT
Helen - I was just playing about with BP'S Equation mini-tute when I noticed, in the Curves+ plug-in, that there is an option for CMYK in the luminosity drop down menu. Don't know if this is of any help, but thought I'd mention it.
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Post by Sargon III on Aug 7, 2011 9:18:06 GMT
try this plugin, I never used it before. forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/3763-rgb-to-cmyk-plugin/The conversation never give exact colors, if the colors are so important, try to find another graphic in the future and select CMYK mode from the beginning and start your drawings. PhotoShop converts images from RGB to CMYK in one click, but some colors will affect.
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