New banning picture, redux
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That background must have took a bit of time in Photoshop or GIMP to get right.
Good work.
I vote for #2 because the trooper's saying 'leave' is plenty powerful.
Will you do a Samuel L. Jackson ('It's time to say goodbye, motherfucker' ) one next?
Good work.
I vote for #2 because the trooper's saying 'leave' is plenty powerful.
Will you do a Samuel L. Jackson ('It's time to say goodbye, motherfucker' ) one next?
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Actually it was pretty easy to do because the original image file I'm working from has the clonetrooper isolated on a separate layer with transparency around him, so all I had to do was put the forum image on a layer behind the clonetrooper and then run a Gaussian blur filter on that layer to simulate the effect of a camera's depth of field.Glocksman wrote:That background must have took a bit of time in Photoshop or GIMP to get right.
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I think it might be an improvement to drop the contraction and have the clonetrooper simply say, "It is time for you ... TO LEAVE." I don't think the contraction suits the gravity of the picture.
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That beats the shit out of having to manually erase every extraneous pixel around the trooper.Darth Wong wrote:Actually it was pretty easy to do because the original image file I'm working from has the clonetrooper isolated on a separate layer with transparency around him, so all I had to do was put the forum image on a layer behind the clonetrooper and then run a Gaussian blur filter on that layer to simulate the effect of a camera's depth of field.Glocksman wrote:That background must have took a bit of time in Photoshop or GIMP to get right.
I did that once for a Tomb Raider pic of Lara Croft in a local park, and it took hours to get it right.
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Well, at some point you still have to isolate the trooper from the original background of the pic from that scene, but I did that at the very beginning in order to replace the original background with a black background. Besides, modern software tools make that a lot easier.Glocksman wrote:That beats the shit out of having to manually erase every extraneous pixel around the trooper.Darth Wong wrote:Actually it was pretty easy to do because the original image file I'm working from has the clonetrooper isolated on a separate layer with transparency around him, so all I had to do was put the forum image on a layer behind the clonetrooper and then run a Gaussian blur filter on that layer to simulate the effect of a camera's depth of field.Glocksman wrote:That background must have took a bit of time in Photoshop or GIMP to get right.
I did that once for a Tomb Raider pic of Lara Croft in a local park, and it took hours to get it right.
First, of course, you hand-draw a selection line around the trooper. Then you turn on the red selection highlighting mode, zoom in to 400% magnification, and use paint tools to touch up the line so that it's fairly accurate to the contours of the trooper. Then you just cut him out of the original picture, paste him into a new picture on a transparent layer, and voila. It also helps to have more resolution to work with: I started with a 1600x1200 picture.
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#2. The emphasis is on LEAVING. Anyone getting the ban hammer has already been called an asshole numerous times.
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Prefer the first. The emphasis on "To Leave" in the second seems a bit awkward.
You could lose the "Asshole" if you don't like it for some reason, but keep "It's time for you to leave" all together. Otherwise it loses impact. Visually and otherwise.
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I like the background as well. The first time you had the black background, that was fine, but this background fits so much better.
Edit the second:
Is it possible to change your picture of the trooper a bit so the top of the helmet isn't cut off?
You could lose the "Asshole" if you don't like it for some reason, but keep "It's time for you to leave" all together. Otherwise it loses impact. Visually and otherwise.
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I like the background as well. The first time you had the black background, that was fine, but this background fits so much better.
Edit the second:
Is it possible to change your picture of the trooper a bit so the top of the helmet isn't cut off?
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#2
*whistles for a few fundies to test shiny new pic on*
*whistles for a few fundies to test shiny new pic on*
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The second one flows better, I think.
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#2, because #1 conjures up images of the RvB guys for some reason, which I don't think is your intent.
(I like the old "TERMINATE HIM!" pic better than both, though...)
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(I like the old "TERMINATE HIM!" pic better than both, though...)
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