30.10.2008, 08:50
@ 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
@ 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