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Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Raptor on January 11, 2006, 04:05:07 PM

My P38 skin was not accepted because the satan on the nose needed work.
Here is what the satan looks like on the 1024x1024 bmp:
(http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/9822/satan4cj.jpg)
Here is the original satan:
(http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/2280/satan5if.jpg)

As you can see the image gets rather distorted when reduced to that small size. Would just having a red tip on the nose work? I do not see how I would be able to get a good quality satan on the nose in a 1024x1024 bmp.

Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Krusty on January 11, 2006, 04:30:44 PM

When reducing you have to remove quality. Just do the mouth outline and eyes, for example. Lose all those other lines. They won't make it. Also, something like that, when it doesn't reduce well, just make one from scratch, using the original as a template and only drawing the important lines (like I said, mouth eyes, etc.). If you send me the file with the original size and the size it's supposed to be I can give it a shot. I'm decent at it.

Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Raptor on January 14, 2006, 02:13:37 PM

You have everything you need, take the satan image, rotate it 90º to the right and make it fit over the red blur. You must realize the nose has stretching, the straight yellow lines I did make a circle (what I was going for) on the nose

Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Krusty on January 16, 2006, 11:50:16 AM

cc will give it a shot today

Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Krusty on January 16, 2006, 05:14:47 PM

Dang, that IS a hard one. I ended up just approximating the devil's head. There's just no way to get any detail in a 24x13 pixel area (what my head turned out). I will e-mail you the PSD that I've got if you want. It has 1 layer of red and 1 of white.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/858_1137453186_satan4cj.jpg)

As you can see the only real detail you can put in is mouth and eyes/horns (which at this resolution are the same).

So, *if* you want it (it's not much better) let me know.

Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Skuzzy on January 16, 2006, 05:29:40 PM

I'll see fi I can get NATEDOG to take a peek at this tomorrow.

Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Raptor on January 18, 2006, 08:50:02 PM

What's the diagnosis?

Title: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Krusty on January 19, 2006, 12:13:53 AM

Diagnosis? Murder!

Sorry, couldn't resist. I think you're going to have to compromise, and by compromise I think I mean "give in entirely" and either ditch the satan or put in a horrible low detail version. It's 13x24, seriously, I can barely work in that small a space, I doubt that even the masterful Natedog can either. There's just not enough pixels to do much.

Title: Re: Skuzzy, P38 Satan
Post by: Raptor on January 19, 2006, 01:42:21 AM

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Originally posted by Raptor01
Would just having a red tip on the nose work? I do not see how I would be able to get a good quality satan on the nose in a 1024x1024 bmp.