I was going to suggest that someone try "Baldurizing" this pic of Taylor Swift...
...but given her jewelry and the stone background (which bears resemblance to a stone temple), I think it looks like it could already pass for a BG portrait as is.
I still need help with Sarevok/Imoen Portraits from BG2 ToB. I cant scale the right size for BG EE with paint. It looks very bad. Can some1 correct their size for BG:EE ?
Are you using Imageshack? It seems to convert everything bmp into png format by default.
Yeah I am, but it hasn't happened when I've uploaded pictures one by one usually. Is it a problem, does the image quality degrade when re-saved as .bmp again? If so I'll find another place to upload from now on.
As far as I can recall, PNG and BMP are both lossless formats, PNG just compresses better for web hosting. There shouldn't be any loss of picture quality when one converts the image back into a Bitmap.
For people stuck to paint; you could also check 'GIMP', it's freeware and a lot of ppl consider it as the most decent alternative to Photoshop. The installer is also only a mere 70~ MB, so it's more or less a tiny program with lots of powerful options.
As far as I can recall, PNG and BMP are both lossless formats, PNG just compresses better for web hosting. There shouldn't be any loss of picture quality when one converts the image back into a Bitmap.
Yeah, BMP/PNG goes well together for minor gfx editing, else I'd rather share a TIF and alike.
Would any of the great artists in this thread be willing to take a stab at "drowifying" this picture? I'm looking to edit this into a Viconia portrait for my playthrough.
Would any of the great artists in this thread be willing to take a stab at "drowifying" this picture? I'm looking to edit this into a Viconia portrait for my playthrough.
Ahahahahah, I find this picture pretty funny, I didn't know that even in the Realms girls love to auto-photograph themselves XD Look at her arms, it seems like she is holding the camera and taking a picture of herself XD
Ok, jokes aside, I return in my corner waiting for someone more serious to modify that picture in a drow ^^
Would any of the great artists in this thread be willing to take a stab at "drowifying" this picture? I'm looking to edit this into a Viconia portrait for my playthrough.
Anyone know of a good image resizing application? I tried using MS paint to make M and S .bmp's of the image above but it keeps cropping out most of the pic
1) XnView: mainly a viewer, but more than adequate to crop/resize. It easy to use and it allows to choose the filter for resizing (I recommend Lanczos)
2) Gimp: a much powerful program, but less user-friendly
Don't break the streak of incoming pics I think my next IWD2 party is already fully settled *eg* [I like the one above, but the unmodified one..pretty cool]
Anyone know of a good image resizing application? I tried using MS paint to make M and S .bmp's of the image above but it keeps cropping out most of the pic
MS Paint works beautifully for this task. Don't use the "crop" function, use the "resize" function.
MS Paint works beautifully for this task. Don't use the "crop" function, use the "resize" function.
I use the crop function of MS Paint, too, to get the portrait wasted space out of the way. It tells you the size you're cropping, so I make sure that my box fits the ratio (it's about .63 times the height for the right width) before resizing the finished bit for portraits.
I also use Irfanview. Which, to my annoyance, resizes a pixel too many on the smallest picture. I just crop it away though. Even more annoying is that Paint does the resize job perfectly... in W7 onwards, figures I'm using Vista >.<
I've used Photoshop regularly for my job over the past few years, but I never gave a portrait a shot before. Here's my first attempt--one that I'll be using for one of my upcoming runs. I cleaned up the standard photo slightly, removing some of the wrinkles to give him a somewhat younger appearance. The armor was borrowed from Skyrim.
Here's a second attempt. I always thought this guy wasn't given enough attention. Many of the other original portraits have been redone several times, but I've seen almost none using him. The armor was once again borrowed from Skyrim.
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...but given her jewelry and the stone background (which bears resemblance to a stone temple), I think it looks like it could already pass for a BG portrait as is.
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/SaberScorpion/DungeonsAndDragons/Sarevok/sarevok_portrait_bg2.jpg
Note that they got changed to .png for some reason, probably cause I uploaded both at once, so be sure to save them as .bmp
Are you using Imageshack? It seems to convert everything bmp into png format by default.
Thanks!
http://i45.tinypic.com/b7gbxl.jpg (Sorry I couldn't figure out how to an imbed image within a post)
Look at her arms, it seems like she is holding the camera and taking a picture of herself XD
Ok, jokes aside, I return in my corner waiting for someone more serious to modify that picture in a drow ^^
Not really happy with it, though. Perhaps you can use it. If not, I'm sure someone else more talented will come along. :P
A very good freeware prog. for such things is "Paint.NET" ... http://www.getpaint.net/
Two freeware possibility are:
1) XnView: mainly a viewer, but more than adequate to crop/resize. It easy to use and it allows to choose the filter for resizing (I recommend Lanczos)
2) Gimp: a much powerful program, but less user-friendly
I think my next IWD2 party is already fully settled *eg*
[I like the one above, but the unmodified one..pretty cool]
Baldur's Gate 1 Portraits:
Baldur's Gate 2 Portraits: