new artist ... need help XD

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 5:47 pm

hey check it out. ive been using photoshop 7.0 for a litle while now, and have made some pretty cool, yet simple things. Not like the things yall make on here, you people are great.

i was asked by a friend to make him a guild and union icon, and loged onto the game for the first time to see what it is that he was talking about. i learned that the guild and icon image is a 32x16 bmp right ...

well in my novice image making, bmp, specially that small, is a huge loss of detail, but the guild and union icons some were very detailed. so my question is as follows.

What program are you people using to make the guild/union icons, so they are as detailed as they are.? And if your using photohop, how??? when i make a banner at the least convert from JPG or GIF to BMP, its completely screwed up, and looks nothing like what i originally made.

Someone please help me with this, and excuse my " noobness" .. lol

thanks.

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:48 pm

AHHHHHHHH damit. i keep loosing the image going from jpg to bmp ... omfg how do you people do this ... :banghead:

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:38 pm

Just open it in the original form, then save it as a .bmp there should be little or no quality loss.

Btw, the icons are 16x16, because you see 2 in 1 icons you perhaps think they're 32x16

kate4231 · Post by **kate4231** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:40 pm

lmao ok calm down dude before you have a heart atatck first of all the majority of us use photoshop cs2 or cs3 and al you gotat d is save the file as a bmp lol...

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:45 pm

o.O cs2 ... or 3 ... hrm i think thats different than my regular fotoshop 7. ... imma have to google cs2 or 3..

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:01 pm

im DLing the full version now ^^ thanks for that much.... now when i run into probnlems with this one, ill be sure to ask =P

kate4231 · Post by **kate4231** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:22 pm

lol any helop you need feel free to ask and yea think you might need to get a crack or summing for it lol

aint gona get banned cause i said tha am i ?

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:41 pm

i dont use or DL programs in an Illegal way., everything that i find on the net is completely legal =P ... thanks for that thought tho ^^

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:32 pm

wow this cs2 is 1000000000 times better than 7.0 lol thanks for that bit of info yall ^^

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:49 pm

TwelveEleven wrote:Just open it in the original form, then save it as a .bmp there should be little or no quality loss.

yea so about this statement you said here lol ... let me show you what im dealing with when i say loss of image ...

this is the original image

this is the same image, .bmp format ... little change

this is the 32/16 thing .... where did it go? detail out the window. please advise.

thanks

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:50 pm

wtf why didnt it show the other files o.O ?

Luoma · Post by **Luoma** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:58 pm

Man, just a tip.. Use the edit button instead of posting 4 times in a row

And i think you should get rid of some of that white background, should
atleast make the sword abit easier to distinguish

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:06 pm

thanks for that tip ... i wondered what the edit button did ^^

the full image, of that sword, was just an example. my project is to make one of those guild union icons. with it being that small it s all blurred and cant see what is what ...

i dont understand how you can resize the image to such a small size without loosing it like its happening to me.

Luoma · Post by **Luoma** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:12 pm

Well i had a go with the sword one and it looked better on a black
background, i also changed the contrast and blurred and shaprened it a little.
Just because it looks wierd after using the magic wand to remove the
background.

Not the best But some improvement from the one you posted (imo)~

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:14 pm

LMAO !!!! you messed with it for 5 minutes, and got it to look better than i have with all day of working on it ... LMAO LMAO!!!!!

(edit) ... see this is what i was talking about above. i put that same image that you did, to bmp and now its completely different. cant even make out its a sword anymore....

lol , i hate to say this, but this little picture is making me wanna stop working on it all together =P

( edited again ) omg... the fotoshop program has been fu****g with my head. when i click to save it as a WBMP it shows it all fuzzy and dotted. but after i save it and open it via picture viewer it looks normal, as it does there above. so my question is, after i do what i need to do to make the thing i need to make, will the game, silkroadonline view it as fotoshop did, or as the picture viewer does?

i would hate to give him a messed up looking picture

Luoma · Post by **Luoma** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:26 pm

Hey beeing very nice to me here ^^

Btw i saved that pic as a bmp, guess photobucket makes it to a jpg when i upload it >.>

Not sure what your talking about with that problem of yours though =/

http://files-upload.com/files/663676/Sword.bmp - here it is in bmp

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:00 pm

ok so i pulled this sword from an image, and did what i could to it ... which prolly wasnt much LOL! ... can someone please rezise this to 32x16 and make it look ok. when i do it, it looks like a sword that a pigme would use ^^

thanks.

WaX · Post by **WaX** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:42 pm

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:03 pm

lmao ... i dont understand how you can resize it to keep it looking like a sword still...

this is what it looked like when i did it.

WaX · Post by **WaX** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:09 pm

just make a canvas 32x16, get ur pic and resize ur image whilst hlding shift.

durkadurka · Post by **durkadurka** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:18 pm

yea .. lol, and this is what happens when i do that...

original

this is the resized.

see what i mean, i have to be missing something. when you people resize things, it looks like that picture, but at a smaller version of it, when i do it, it looks like a 2 year old grabed some crayons and made it. LMAO! ...