If you could do all the card frames for the new (post 8th?) style, the 3 timeshifts and the token frame (new style) then I'd be happy to render all the coloured cards in MSE for you.
EDIT: why can't I find that crovax? it's not in the card windows and neither of the 2 crovax's on gatherer are it.
awesome. the more detailed stuff is fun to color. Kamahl looks good, Chandra is solid but I like the legend better.
When I get some more time off, I will definately spend some quality time on that piece honing my photoshop skillz. I might even draw some, or post some sketches for the monthly contest..
Hehe. Those are really cute pictures, darkasecas. ^^ I can't even feel threatened by Akroma when she looks like that, though. Way too cute. Hehe.
Well... I acted crazy and decided to try and color in Chandra. I don't think it came out too bad, but I am still mostly hiding my face in shame. Hope someone likes it or whatever...
And I, since words are not that can reveal
Half the heart-shaking wonder that I feel,
Give you no answer, asking love of me,
But eyes unveiled, lips that move silently.
All youth, all love, all life were made for this,
The wordless moment of the spirit's kiss. -Since Words Are Not, Carolyn Crosby Wilson
@Master of the arts: Those look pretty good and it looks like you did a great job on the coloring, but I have a few suggestions (they're really just formatting issues).
Cut out the white space around the outside. It just makes the image (and the file) much larger and more difficult to look at.
Don't save your images as gifs, they lose a lot of quality when you do that. Either save them as high quality jpg images, or (better yet) save them as pngs as that really won't lose any quality and you can even put in transparency if you want.
Thanks for the suggestin with saving them, but can you tell me how to cut out the white space and make transparencys? seriously i just got it yesterday and i havent had time to learn it.
The easiest way to cut out the white space is just to crop the image down. There's a little crop tool in the top part of the tools window. Drag it like the square marquee tool and it'll darken everything on the outside. When you click another tool, it'll all of the darkened stuff out. So, if you just box the middle of your picture, that'll be all that's left.
As for transparency, it's not necessary if you're willing to have white around the outside, but it does look nicer on slightly off-white backgrounds if you make it transparent. To make something transparent, you have to delete (or mask out) everything in that space. You can do that with a marquee tool (you'll probably want the polygon lasso here) and hit delete while you're on the relevant layer. You can also use the eraser tool or put in a layer mask and use the brush tool on that (or a marquee tool if you want). You'll know when the spot has nothing in it because the little white and gray background checkerboard that photoshop puts in automatically will show through. Then, if you save the file as a .png image, everything that had that little checkerboard showing through will be transparent (but the rest will be flattened).
I hope that helps. It can be a little hard to explain this stuff just in forum posts.
it's probably only a couple of hours away (not sure, definately a different city) but who's going to drive for that long to take me? seeing as I'm under age and nobody I know who isn't likes driving and or M:TG
Hmm, well you could look at bus and train times. Is there anyone you know who lives nearby and might be interested in going to play Magic (i.e. and could give you a lift)?
don't think so but I'll check if there's any in the same county. I get free bus fare!
back on topic: I've given up on my edited frames for theses for now...
EDIT: MTG china? sure they're not japanese or something? everyone knows chinese art has no skeletons!
don't think so but I'll check if there's any in the same county.
after much searching I've finaly found an FNM (not on friday though :o) location in my home town. I know it's asking a bit much but is there any chance of getting a full set of anime style lorwyn and/or morning tide tokens? If you I'll like them in the next 2 weeks if possible (draft every other week).
I like the idea of using anime art for the cards, but not sure if those pictures are what I would have chosen for those cards in particular. Still, they're really neat though, and I sort of want to see what else there is out there.
I like the ideas on this thread, but not particularly the execution. Has anybody tried more realistic-looking anime. I think what I'm getting at is non-chibi-ish stuff?
Personally I don't like the mtgchina cards, seems like they just picked some random anime girls (Mogg Fanatic? Wha? Cabal Therapy?) and slapped it on a horrible layout.
I've been working on this...
Planning to cel-shade the whole thing, including background. I guess you can't really call him chibi, it's more shonen than anything.
If you could do all the card frames for the new (post 8th?) style, the 3 timeshifts and the token frame (new style) then I'd be happy to render all the coloured cards in MSE for you.
EDIT: why can't I find that crovax? it's not in the card windows and neither of the 2 crovax's on gatherer are it.
When I get some more time off, I will definately spend some quality time on that piece honing my photoshop skillz. I might even draw some, or post some sketches for the monthly contest..
good work.
well, whatever...
The art here is great but it looks kinda wrong on a normal magic frame.
Well... I acted crazy and decided to try and color in Chandra. I don't think it came out too bad, but I am still mostly hiding my face in shame. Hope someone likes it or whatever...
Half the heart-shaking wonder that I feel,
Give you no answer, asking love of me,
But eyes unveiled, lips that move silently.
All youth, all love, all life were made for this,
The wordless moment of the spirit's kiss.
-Since Words Are Not, Carolyn Crosby Wilson
I have some time today for creativity.. Maybe I'll even draw something.
EDIT : second try were i just found the smudge tool i know its over done but hey iIthink its ok for second try.
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As for transparency, it's not necessary if you're willing to have white around the outside, but it does look nicer on slightly off-white backgrounds if you make it transparent. To make something transparent, you have to delete (or mask out) everything in that space. You can do that with a marquee tool (you'll probably want the polygon lasso here) and hit delete while you're on the relevant layer. You can also use the eraser tool or put in a layer mask and use the brush tool on that (or a marquee tool if you want). You'll know when the spot has nothing in it because the little white and gray background checkerboard that photoshop puts in automatically will show through. Then, if you save the file as a .png image, everything that had that little checkerboard showing through will be transparent (but the rest will be flattened).
I hope that helps. It can be a little hard to explain this stuff just in forum posts.
Winner of the Weekly Signature & Avatar Contest Weeks 51, 59, 78, & 118.
I don't care if I was framed for murder if I only got a warning I would let it go.
It's a bit messed up round the P/T box but that's cos I haven't edited that part of the frame yet.
it's probably only a couple of hours away (not sure, definately a different city) but who's going to drive for that long to take me? seeing as I'm under age and nobody I know who isn't likes driving and or M:TG
note i dont own these if anyone knows were i can get some please let me know.
I do have one of there pithing needles thu ill post a scan some time
don't think so but I'll check if there's any in the same county. I get free bus fare!
back on topic: I've given up on my edited frames for theses for now...
EDIT: MTG china? sure they're not japanese or something? everyone knows chinese art has no skeletons!
after much searching I've finaly found an FNM (not on friday though :o) location in my home town. I know it's asking a bit much but is there any chance of getting a full set of anime style lorwyn and/or morning tide tokens? If you I'll like them in the next 2 weeks if possible (draft every other week).
I've been working on this...
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