[Shooter]

Link to a 2000X1500 version ~~~>

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii31 ... AB2000.jpg


Regards

[GeneralPsycho]

ok, i saw this picture before? :?

[Guest]

Wow

But how you cropping them from original so good? How? :?

[Murilo Specht]

I'm on my knees, worshipping you. :lol:



My new desktop

[PA_Willy]

Thank you for the high res version. My new desktop wallpaper. 8)

[Kristorf]

Nice 'comp' D

[Shooter]

Hey chaps

@GeneralPsycho: Yes you saw a slightly different version of this before 'Murilo' asked that I put in the bomber shapes to the low left of Pic as previously there where only con trails showing, its a case of 'Spot the Difference' & How you like it, myself I prefer the original without the bombers showing as it gives a greater felling of altitude, distance & depth, but he suggested it & I added them specifically at his request Hes a happy camper now

@ Avala: Please explain your query? Perhaps then I could answer it in full?

Cheers again fellas,

Regards

[Erg./JG54_crazty]

Nice work 8)

[GeneralPsycho]

Hey chaps

@GeneralPsycho: Yes you saw a slightly different version of this before 'Murilo' asked that I put in the bomber shapes to the low left of Pic as previously there where only con trails showing, its a case of 'Spot the Difference' & How you like it, myself I prefer the original without the bombers showing as it gives a greater felling of altitude, distance & depth, but he suggested it & I added them specifically at his request Hes a happy camper now

@ Avala: Please explain your query? Perhaps then I could answer it in full?

Cheers again fellas,

Regards

ah, thanks for the info, didnt see the difference, must be getting blind :oops:

[Guest]

I am wondering how you manage to crop planes (take them out of) IL2 screenshot (I assume that they are from il2) in such a good quality. Meaning that their edges are in very good condition. I can see that antenna wire, counter weight thingies on the wings and such small details could be done by hand. But wings edges look also very sharp.

Or maybe it is not from il2 screenshot after all?

[Shooter]

@ Psycho...NP mate, its a small detail & I guess it could be missed when looking at the pic on the whole

@ Avala : Hi mate, yes the aircraft are from Il2, screens taken 1024 x 768 in 'Excellent' mode as opposed to Perfect ( I find the lighting in perfect mode isnt to my taste for gameplay or screenshots).

When I take a screenshot its taken at 1024x 768 then I resize to 3000x 2000 or there abouts.
I take screenshots of subject aircraft against a clear blue sky wherever possible, this gives the blue screen effect that movie makers use to superimpose objects onto real world movie sequences. I do this because it makes it easier to lasoo the the subject entirely with very little if any missing bits then I copy paste the image.

Then make the background of the previous layer entirely blue painting over the aircraft in the original layer.

Being as how the image is now so much larger and the background is light blue , its easy now to use the smudge tool at say 35% to clean up any bad edges, also the soft edge eraser or soft edge paint brush tool can be used its a matter of choice, I tend to use all of them depending on how I want the edge to appear.

As far as the antenna and counter weights are concerned they are as you imagined reworked by hand as are the pit area tail section & other details in the image.

Once done, I merge everything apart from the blue screen background, then copy paste the aircraft image again, add motion blur to the copy in the direction aircraft is supposed to be flying between 6 and 8, then lower opacity by up to 40%.

Then I lower the opacity of the unblurred image on the previous layer by 20% then merge the two images, lowering the opacity by these amounts allows the overall color from your chosen composite background to come thru the image a little without making it transparant, giving a much better blend to your image when finalised.

The key to a good blend is the superimposed objects containing similair overall hues of your chosen background, lowering the opacity of the subject allows this perfectly without having to add colors or mess with it and risk ruining the clarity, original colors or effect.

Hope that helps mate, I suppose a tutorial on it would be good, but im sure as you can see by what Ive tried to explain, a tutorial would take quite some tiime to do


Regards

[Guest]

Thank you, that was really more than a tutorial indeed

[KG64_Ðørvånski]

beautiful! one of the best ive seen

[_-JARMOPOWER-_]

lol im gonna put that wallpaper screenie to my wallapaper...

[PA_Willy]

The only step I don't see is that you said you took the original image at 1024*768. Later, you increased the image to 3000*2000. But... Don't you loss a lot of quality and sharp doing that? I have downloaded your high res pic and I can't believe that image was initially taken at 1024*768... hock:

I do the contrary: I take my shots at the maximum size I can (1920*1200). Later, I reduce the image. Usually, you get sharpness etc. But my results are far from the yours...

Thank you in advance.