*pondering Photoshop 7*

[eruthros]

Also a GIP. Anyone who knows me even a little understands why I made an icon of that clip. Because Wesley has two guns. Two. At once. And he's kicking ass. *clears throat* A-hem. Anyway.

I've been playing around with Photoshop 7 all day. I've used Photoshop before, but every release is new and different -- gotta say, the history window makes me a happy person. And it's so easy to change the opacity of a layer, which was a pain in the ass before. Oooh, and the pop-up menu for filters makes it a whole bunch easier to run through them. So, in short, eruthros=happy. (Now if I could only work out how to do animation in image ready...)

Only here's the thing. This icon doesn't really look much like Wesley. I know it's Wesley. It is, in fact, the only screenshot I could find of this bit of Lineage. The original looks a lot like "black":



I think I did a pretty good job finding a face in that image, let alone finding two guns. And getting his coat somewhere near brown, and his shirt somewhere near red. But the shadow over his face still annoys me -- if I could get rid of that it would look a lot more like Wes. But I can't -- when I lighten or color-shift the shadows, even if I just select that area, the whole image gets streaky. Any suggestions?

ETA: Hmmm. Are these any better? I did some shadow/highlight and histogram manipulation, and his face seems less orange at least. I need to remember to look at this again when it's not 1 am.

Comments

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think these look pretty good -- not too blown out. The one on the left is just a hair better, i think -- the pixels are slightly crisper.

And are you going to offer them up for sharing? I adore it (calls to mind both Angel and Due South!), but I won't steal if you aren't sharing. ;-)

[eruthros]

I'm glad it calls to mind both Angel and dS, as that's what I thinking of. And you always wonder if other people are thinking the same thing. *g*

Go ahead and yoink any of them -- the ones already posted, or the one currently in my user pictures, which has a slightly different border. Credit is neat but I don't insist.

And I'm clearly very tired right now, so I'm just going to pretend that this made sense and was in decent English and wander away.

[gawlfor.livejournal.com]

I like this one:
(the one on the left) Seems like there's maybe one line of pixels extending out on the left side (they look blue) that you might want to trim away, if you're picky (like me ;))

[eruthros]

Hmmmm. That's supposed to be a border, the same color as the text but blended by exclusion; it looks much better in photoshop than it did when I optimized it for web use. I may just switch back to a normal blend...

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

Because Wesley has two guns. Two. At once. And he's kicking ass. *clears throat* A-hem. Anyway.

perv.

^_^

[eruthros]

perv.

Well, duh!

[m-shell.livejournal.com]

anyway, aren't you supposed to be a lesbian or something?