Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Excellent work. Hope to see more!

Great! now, to make work re-install photoshop for free!

More please

Excellent work. I hope you plan on making further tutorials in the future.

covenant84 wrote:Great! now, to make work re-install photoshop for free!

More please

Just download GIMP.

Beautiful work, and thank you for sharing the tutorial.

So, about how long did it take you to do that with the image?

Eric

Wow, that's some awesome stuff there. My brother started photoshoping some of the pics he took while gaming, but they mostly consist of different kinds of gun fire.
I also like the Baneblade pics the most.
As soon as I have some more time to spare I'm going to read that whole tutorial.

MagickalMemories wrote:So, about how long did it take you to do that with the image?

The fortress and the coptas needed a lot of cutout work to get rid of the background, so maybe 4 or 5 hours each on those... others went much faster, the guardsman and the ork warboss took less than one hour.

The baneblade (thought the 1st one was a painting) and building are great but


IMO This wins hands down almost perfect

Those are as fantastic as Willy Wonka's 3 course meal bubble gum!

The orky choppers one is awesome.

The only things I'd say to criticize are that the muzzle flash isn't quite right for me, and they all look quite washed out (may just be my laptop, or the feel you were going for)

Great work though, did you post a tutorial at all? EDIT (note to self, read whole thread first...)

Grandmaster wrote:You have inspired me to get my finger out and do it!

Out of where?!?! Eww... nvermind. I don't wanna know.

AJCarrington wrote:Awesome stuff - would make for an excellent article/tutorial...hint...hint...

AJC

Are you serious? Did you happen to read the thread prior to posting? More specifically, three posts up from yours?



Very nice tute. Also very nice photos. I've been playing with photoshop for several years now. Been awhile since I edited pics. I may have to dabble in it again.



Ghidorah

yeah,
I can't believe I almost missed these!
I second the call for front page publicity! and the tutorial is very good it should be converted to the articles system.

Amazing stuff!

Panic...

amazing love the pics i saw most of them already in the gallery

I'll add a note about this to the front page tomorrow.

Finally pushed to front page.

I really need to take some photo classes and get my hands on a respectable camera. I've been doing the photoshop thing for 7 years and I do it professionally now, but thats mostly working with other peoples photos and doing wholecloth composites in 3d and using cs4 materials to shoop it all up good.

I can't really handle a camera myself well at all, it's a skill that increasingly I'm becoming jealous of.

Wow I did some of these years back your going to force me to try again mine were nowhere near as good as these however. I've also got to second that bit about getting rid of the background being the worst part of these.

Coldsnap wrote:
Just drag the layer to the small Create a new layer icon, then hide the original background layer

Double-click the background layer. This converts the background to a functional layer.

Personally I would also not use the delete function here. Use a layer mask (layers>layer mask>reveal all). This way you can paint back in any possible mistakes you make in the deletion process.

This is lovely work though. Keep it up.

this is a great tutorial but it does not really work with the close- ups. its too obvious that there painted

I am a photographer as well and must applaud your work! I do mostly natural and glamor photoshoots. I have been playing with making the models look real. This will be a great place to start. I lack the great terrain so I will have to see what I can come up with. Nice work!!!

I second the above comment, being a professional in media and visuals, this is some clever work and you have explained the core principles well. A well put together guide indeed.

~ Tael.

This is a fantastic guide... I think i know what my new hobby is going to be

I've played around with my painted miniatures using the light effects in GIMP with some success (like my avatar), but I've been intimidated by layering effects. This gives me a good base to work from to try new shots. Thanks!

After seeing the above shots, I just had to try it for myself. I followed the great tutorial and spent only about 30min on the whole thing,including taking the pictures, so I did not put the love and effort that coldsnap did, and that is reflected in the quality. As I was doing this very very fast there are many errors. I gritted up the pics quite a bit more so cover them up. You can see that it is effective and simple to do. Coldsnap really made an effective tutorial and easy to follow. I used 8 pictures to make this shot, 2 buildings, 1 snow, 1 parchment shot, 1 baneblade, 1 snow ground, 1 horizon and 1 sky.. I just wanted to see how it would work. I have limited terrain and none is painted so that causes problems.

Mine does not look the quality of the originals but I wanted to see if it could be done quickly and effectively using the above techniques. I play dark heresy from time to time and wanted to see if I could use this to use as supplements for the game. I would say not bad for a practice shot with little to no thought put into it. I hope to be able to spend the time and make a few great shots that would be in the same league with the originals from cold snap. I will attempt a good one later when time permits. Thanks Coldsnap.

I also encourage others to try this and to post what you have come up with.

LOL - I've seen all that scenery Sha1emade. Very cool pic for it.

I don't know why you would have to use model scenery for this type of work. I would think you could use real pictures for background.

Wow very nice - just posting for the subscribe :-p

You have some real talent there. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Excellent job Coldsnap and a very nice tutorial. I do have one question tho. Why not use the extraction tool to remove the unwanted background? It's 1000x less hassle.

[edit]
@ Sha1emade - Here's one that I did quickly.