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Response to Graphics Request

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 1:30 am
by Stradivarius
I assumed because your character is listed as being 31 that you wanted a young Harrison Ford.

Re: Official Graphics Request Post

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 1:38 am
by lonn44
Oh wow way cool thank you

Re: Official Graphics Request Post

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 1:40 am
by lonn44
What program do you use I would love to know how to do that

Re: Official Graphics Request Post

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:35 am
by Stradivarius
I use GIMP. It's a complicated process. Basically:

I find a picture of an actor (Google Image search for "Young Harrison Ford").
Find a picture of someone in a trek uniform (From Trekcore's screen-capture gallery).
Resize the images to roughly the correct size.
Use the GIMP Clone and Smudge tools to eliminate as much of the head from the uniform as is necessary.
Use the Paths tool to surround the actor's head, neck and hair.
Hit Select>Select From Path and Edit>Copy -- This copies the head.
Switch to the Uniform pic and hit Edit>Paste>Into New Layer.
Adjust the Layer opacity so that you can see where the images overlap.
Erase the overlap of the actor's neck from the uniform collar.
Do a little gaussian blurring and smudging around the head to make it look a little less fake.
Flatten image.

This is a frustrating thing to learn. Be patient and expect to mess up. Also expect GIMP to crash in the middle of something you're actually doing well, because it does seem to do this an awful lot. It's taken me ages to learn what I was doing.

Re: Official Graphics Request Post

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 1:16 pm
by Guest
lol I have been experimenting with gimp lol it can be a head ache

Re: Response to Graphics Request

Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:37 am
by Stradivarius
Cardassian-ish Claudia Black in engineering/ops yellow.

Re: Response to Graphics Request

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 2:03 pm
by Stradivarius
For Kendra Varas -- I don't know if this will work of not. Let me know.

Re: Response to Graphics Request

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:34 pm
by Alex
That's perfect. Thank you. You work fast.

Re: Response to Graphics Request

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 4:34 am
by Stradivarius
USERNAME: Dani Terris
PF SHIP: Pegasus Fleet Command
PF CHARACTER NAME: Kaitlen Walford
PB CELEBRITY: Jamie Lee Curtis
PF CHARACTER POSITION: Director of Personnel Management
PF CHARACTER RANK: Commodore
VESSEL DETAILS (for plaques):

Re: Response to Graphics Request

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:16 am
by Terris
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!