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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Larry on June 16, 2007, 07:18:37 AM

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Larry on June 16, 2007, 07:18:37 AM

I tryed putting effects on my rivets and panle lines but when I look at it in the skin viewer it looks wierd. This is the main problem I have. On most of  my skins you can see that there are some blobs of different colors. Is this something that goes away once you add weathering or am I doing something wrong?




(http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/24/1013733/Riv.jpg)

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Citabria on June 16, 2007, 08:43:16 AM

if you want the quick effect of dark areas running along the rivet lines take a copy of the black layer of rivets and blur it out duplicate and merge over n over till its dark enough for ya.

thats the quick way

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Citabria on June 16, 2007, 08:44:20 AM

for panel lines take the black layer and blur it out if i use this method I use a lot of blurring in fact till it wont blur any mor ein soem cases.

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Spikes on June 16, 2007, 09:06:27 AM

why it seems you dont use periods a lot it is hard to understand your sentences pleae try to use periods more thanks

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Stoney74 on June 16, 2007, 10:14:46 AM

Larry, what software are you using there?  Antialiasing all those angled lines will make them look much better.

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: rogerdee on June 16, 2007, 11:41:57 AM

spikes remember not everyones native language is yank some speak English and there are a lot of other national languages too.

Who cares about the writing if the art work is so good

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Kev367th on June 16, 2007, 12:26:18 PM

Different colored blobs -
Probably happen during the color reduction to 256 colors.
Not really a lot you can do about it.
Going from 16 million colors down to 256 things change.

Try using Brighter to do the reduction, seems to work better than most.

http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/forums/cat12.html

Kev

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Larry on June 16, 2007, 07:40:54 PM

I use PhotoShop 7 and CS. Kev I use the "bright" plugin, is that a better version of it? I will try it and what fester said and see if that works.:aok


Okay I downloaded brighter, how do I use it?

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: MotleyCH on June 16, 2007, 07:55:34 PM

The original brighter was DOS..there is a windows version, just do a search for it.

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: Larry on June 16, 2007, 08:28:22 PM

I turned off all the effects and seems these "defects" only show up on dark colors. I used RLM 74 and RLM75 to test it and it showed up on 74 but not 75.

Title: Fester&Airmess
Post by: MotleyCH on June 17, 2007, 12:53:16 AM

Have you tried adjusting the layers opacity?

What program are you using?

In PSP you can adjust the layers opacity and use it as a overlay, multiply, lighten, darken or whatever, to get the right look.