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WIP - Dynasty Warriors
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:17 am
by Barotix
Messing around on Paint.NET; I'm still working on it.

Trying a New style, warming up for PS:


It looks 10x better on Cruor's dark background. >_>
Re: WIP - Dynasty Warriors
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:57 am
by izmeister
The focal seems a bit too blurry, you should probably get Gimp if you don't feel like getting photoshop.
Re: WIP - Dynasty Warriors
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:14 am
by Barotix
I'm actually working* on getting PS, but for now I need something to practice on and Paint.NET is closer to PS than gimp. New style, final result;

Re: WIP - Dynasty Warriors
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:03 pm
by izmeister
I still think they are a bit too blurry, but otherwise are pretty good. BTW, isn't Paint.NET just a glorified version of paint? I have never used it, but that is what I thought it was.
Re: WIP - Dynasty Warriors
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:21 pm
by Barotix
Nope, Paint.NET is as far from the real paint as an image editor can get. The program feels like a clone of PS. It has some advantages over PS and some disadvantages. I just made this Planet from a Super Nova render I had laying around:

You can really go into detail with 3d imaging here. for ex:
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The fact that PDN is open source gives it some serious advantages over PS, but I still miss my pen tool, burn tool, and dodge tool.
Here's one of my quick 3d renderings again:

Lulz, I don't think I'm ever going back to PS. /cancel d/l.