Just messing with Photoshop

[phil]

Just messing about with some ideas....here's my first:



http://www.thegenomecollective.com/artgallery/TGC.jpg

[pelligrini]

I wouldn't turn down big ass fake titties :D
but....
I kinda like the type of chick we had on acho's logo ;)

She's gotta have long legs too.....

[phil]

I am sure I will be able to oblige :D ...I suppose I can adapt this for the Tank account - afterall, this is the tank girl!! :cool:

[pelligrini]

That was a cool movie...

Wasn't she mostly brunette?

[Martyn]

mostly.

[Martyn]

Originally posted by phil
Just messing about with some ideas....here's my first:



http://www.thegenomecollective.com/artgallery/TGC.jpg

Sweet man, where'd you get the image of the girl from?

[Chas]

Love it
Bababoom

[Dave S]

Originally posted by pelligrini
That was a cool movie...

yep but put me off water for life...i stick to beer now;) - the bird in the plane woz cool 2:D:D

[Dave S]

Originally posted by tril0Byte
mostly.
:D
nice work man:)

[phil]

Originally posted by tril0Byte


Sweet man, where'd you get the image of the girl from?


I got her from some obscure website (I forget the name) a while back. I had to do some masking to get her out of the full pic seemlessly. I worked at 800x400 and shrunk the finished image to 400x200 for a better look.

[Martyn]

Yeah, workin really big and then resampling down to your desired size, produces awsome quality. All the edits are seamless. This is a tip I picked up ages ago from a guy called DaVinci, (http://davinci.ice.org/) he did all the graphics and artwork for a group of Crackers caller the PhrozenCrew (http://www.phrozencrew.org/) (ever heard of em?), back when I was trying to figure out how that stuff worked. I usually work 4x bigger than the final desired size, then just resample down to 25% - works every time :)

[wylie]

Originally posted by tril0Byte
he did all the graphics and artwork for a group of Crackers caller the PhrozenCrew (http://www.phrozencrew.org/) (ever heard of em?),
Sure have....was a time when it seemed every bloody App was cracked by them......something you wish to confess tril????
Maybe to the SPA???
:D

[phil]

Originally posted by tril0Byte
Yeah, workin really big and then resampling down to your desired size, produces awsome quality. All the edits are seamless. This is a tip I picked up ages ago from a guy called DaVinci, (http://davinci.ice.org/) he did all the graphics and artwork for a group of Crackers caller the PhrozenCrew (http://www.phrozencrew.org/) (ever heard of em?), back when I was trying to figure out how that stuff worked. I usually work 4x bigger than the final desired size, then just resample down to 25% - works every time :)


Yeah, I heard of them....very good quality pics they produce. As I was aiming for 200x100 final, I worked at 800x400 to give the 25% that you use also :)

[Martyn]

Originally posted by wylie

Sure have....was a time when it seemed every bloody App was cracked by them......something you wish to confess tril????
Maybe to the SPA???
:D

Nothing earth shattering wylie. I've tried my hand at a little reverse engineering just for fun. I even went as far as trying out SoftICE, but was a little too hard to get my head into, couldn't set the damned breakpoints properly and the thing just ended up breaking into windows at just about every call. I ended up playing with W32dasm, a windows debugger, with a pretty nifty built in dissassembler. The best I could ever manage was to crack winrar - pretty damned easy by these guys standards. Just dissassemnbled it, and ran it from within W32dasm. I set the break point to halt the app on any text popup, then entered a bogus serial number. The internal check failed and jmp'd to a "bog off cracker" text message. This gave me the jump point within the diassembled code, where the serial checking was done (good = proceed, bad = bog off message). Then I just used hex workshop to cross reference the offset with the binary and Hackers View to binary edit the jmp command to a NOP. Then just re-assemble the hacked exe and Bob's your preverbial - this time, when I entered a bogus serial, instead of a jmp call being made to a bog off message, the "new" No Operation command just let the code proceed. One cracked app. Very enjoyable process and a damned good learning exercise. Also, at the time anyway, it was/is legal. Whether it's ethical is a matter of debate. In my case, I never use winrar, not then or now, and never distributed the cracked app. So for me, it was just a case of picking an app to have a crack (sic) with. That was a couple of years ago, and one thing I did learn, I suck as a coder, none worse, believe me :)

[Martyn]

Originally posted by phil



Yeah, I heard of them....very good quality pics they produce. As I was aiming for 200x100 final, I worked at 800x400 to give the 25% that you use also :)

Yeah DaVinci is one cool guy. His graphics are simply awsome. He uses 100% Photoshop, no filters or wizards, everything from scratch. Check out this link http://davinci.ice.org/index-0.html esp take a look at the Photoshop tutorials. There is one for creating lightening effects that is esp cool - I used it on this pic...

http://www.abbc65.theseed.net/genomeathome/5th.jpg

The man is a Photoshop master :)

[Martyn]

Here's a couple of other images you might like. In the first, you can see the heavy DaVinci influence. I created this 100% in photoshop from scratch, using just primitive shapes and subtracting from them. The whole image was built up this way, no plugins or wizards of any kind...

http://www.abbc65.theseed.net/nemesis.jpg

The next, is a collage. I used a scan for the wizards hands and for his apprentice's face. I also used a scan for the book, the rest is 100% Photoshop....

http://www.abbc65.theseed.net/punish.jpg

Hehe - man this brings back memories, these images are a couple years old :)

[Ridcully]

They are pretty damned impressive tril0Byte, I tip my hat to you m8ee. ;)

[Martyn]

Originally posted by Ridcully
They are pretty damned impressive tril0Byte, I tip my hat to you m8ee. ;)

Why thank you Ridders, a true conniseur ;)

[phil]

Very nice....I think you have shown me those before and I am still suitably impressed. When you see DaVinci's work, it makes you realise just how much you have to learn. I am still a total newbie at this....just working my way through a couple of Photoshop books and applying what I see :)