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[Joe Davion 86]

nice one duncan i'll take 2 for D Co, I Lance lol

[Ironhawk]

Fellows, just to be in line with the spirit of this thread, maybe we should contain the 'Mech mods within the context of known BT variants so that we remain within plausible ingame concept art? Just a thought.

[Adridos]

Larry Headrick, on 29 March 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

I have to agree with you. His is a much beter repaint than mine just having fun figuring out gimp there is a lot of things idont know how to do yet.
Anyway here is My take on a 2nd McCarron's Armored cavalry Awesome.

Now that is much better. Almost perfect. but that cockpit seems Steiner to me, but keep it.

Awesome work on awesome mech called Awesome.

[Chuckie]

Can someone with talent you use this:

http://dl.dropbox.co...491148/KWSN.png

Knights of Nis' Tartan is Dark Gray and Black

In a Northwind Highlander scheme on an Awesome ..

The 9Q 4 PPC version

Pretty Please

Edited by Chuckie, 30 March 2012 - 06:06 AM.

[kelmar6821]

OhGilPin, on 27 March 2012 - 04:02 PM, said:

House Davion; What do you think?

Atlas on a stick. lol

Awesome skin though

[Max OConnor]

Chuckie, on 30 March 2012 - 06:02 AM, said:

Can someone with talent you use this:

http://dl.dropbox.co...491148/KWSN.png

Knights of Nis' Tartan is Dark Gray and Black

In a Northwind Highlander scheme on an Awesome ..

The 9Q 4 PPC version

Pretty Please

I'll try to knock one out for you Chuckie. What color did you want the Awesome?

[Chuckie]

maxoconnor, on 30 March 2012 - 06:55 AM, said:

I'll try to knock one out for you Chuckie. What color did you want the Awesome?

Maybe like the bottom left Camoflauge (BTW these patterns are seamless if you repeat them)

With Red accents..

Edited by Chuckie, 30 March 2012 - 07:41 AM.

[Hayden]

Templates now on OP, for ease of finding!

EDIT: I should note, Per CoffiNail's suggestion

Edited by Hayden, 30 March 2012 - 07:47 AM.

[Max OConnor]

Hayden, on 30 March 2012 - 07:39 AM, said:

Templates now on OP, for ease of finding!

EDIT: I should note, Per CoffiNail's suggestion

Where is OP?

[Hayden]

maxoconnor, on 30 March 2012 - 07:50 AM, said:

Where is OP?

Original* Post? 1st post on page 1

*or opening, I guess? Honestly, I'm just making half this stuff up... *whistles*

Edited by Hayden, 30 March 2012 - 07:52 AM.

[CoffiNail]

maxoconnor, on 30 March 2012 - 07:50 AM, said:

Where is OP?

OP=opening post

Hayden

Edited by CoffiNail, 30 March 2012 - 07:52 AM.

[Max OConnor]

Do you have one for the Awesome? I didn't see that one.

[Dihm]

I went with KISS for this one. And you know, I think I like them better without the background, but I'm a sucker for transparency.

[guardian wolf]

How do you add on paint layers like that, whenever I do it, it seems to just cover the original, or does it have to do with transparency?

[Max OConnor]

Does anyone have the step by step instructions on how to create a color layer filter? I'd like to be able to make my own and I can't seem to find the instructions on how to do it in Photoshop.

[Dihm]

guardian wolf, on 30 March 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

How do you add on paint layers like that, whenever I do it, it seems to just cover the original, or does it have to do with transparency?

Sounds like the trouble you're having is the "type" of layer it is. Make sure you change your type from "Normal" to "Multiply"

Also, Hayden has you guys covered, I knew it was hiding in here somewhere.

Hayden's tutorial

[Hayden]

maxoconnor, on 30 March 2012 - 07:58 AM, said:

Do you have one for the Awesome? I didn't see that one.

Not that I've posted. I've been slow to work on it (since I have "real work" distracting me).

[Hartsblade]

guardian wolf, on 30 March 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

How do you add on paint layers like that, whenever I do it, it seems to just cover the original, or does it have to do with transparency?

maxoconnor, on 30 March 2012 - 09:21 AM, said:

Does anyone have the step by step instructions on how to create a color layer filter? I'd like to be able to make my own and I can't seem to find the instructions on how to do it in Photoshop.

Hayden and Cake Bandit posted way back in this thread these tips:

Hayden's Tutorial

Hayden, on 16 November 2011 - 12:53 PM, said:

Ask and ye shall receive (Sorry if this is convoluted. I've been using PS for quite a few years, but never bothered to learn the proper terminology for a lot of things. That, coupled with the fact that I've been running on caffeine for the past couple days mean this is going to be an interesting tutorial).

This will just cover the basics. If it's too confusing I'll come back after I've had a chance to sleep so I can fix things.

I'd like to give a tutorial for freeware like GIMP, but I just don't have the working knowledge for that. This tutorial assumes that you are using one of Adobe's Photoshop CS programs. My particular version is CS5, but I think my technique should be backwards-compatible. I discourage piracy, and if anyone doesn't have a legal copy of Photoshop I will be happy to sit down and take the time to learn GIMP so I can prepare another tutorial for you to use. Please don't pirate software.

Ok, now that the PSA is over, let's edit some concept art! This tutorial assumes you are basically unfamiliar with Photoshop CS5.

Step 1:
Open Photoshop.

Step 2:
Open the image you'll be editing, and (if you want to have a template you can go back to) save the image as a .psd file.

Step 3. create a new layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N, or Layer>New>Layer...) On the window that pops up it will ask for the following info:

NAME: (For this tutorial, type in "Soft White").
CHECK BOX ("Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask" just ignore this)
MODE: (This is important! Set this one to "Soft Light")
OPACITY: (Leave this at 100%)

Then press OK! You now have a new layer over the image. You can select it in the "Layers" section in the lower right-hand corner. Do this now.

Step 4:

Select the "Soft Light" layer.

Press L. (This is the hotkey for the lasso tool, which is going to be important for this next part)

You will notice that the lasso tool is now highlighted (tool bar is on the left side of the screen). Hover your mouse over this and hold down the mouse button while hovering over it: This will bring up a small menu allowing you to chose between the Lasso, Polygon Lasso, and Magnetic Lasso tools. Unless you have very steady hands, you'll probably want to use the Polygon Lasso tool.

With the Polygon Lasso tool selected, mask out the parts of the image you'll want to edit (I.E. change colors). You will mask out the areas by clicking where you want to start a polygon, slowly moving around the image, clicking additional places where you want the outline to go. When you're finished you click back at the starting point.

Step 5:

Press "G". This will bring up the paint bucket tool (again, you can see this in the toolbar). Color the selected area white. Press CTRL+D to de-select your selected areas if you made a mistake or if you just want to remove your selection.

Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you have "masked" off everything you want to color.

Step 6:

Select the "Soft Light" layer that we just finished editing. Press CTRL+A (select-all), CTRL+C (copy) CTRL+V (paste). This will create a new layer.

In the Layers panel (lower right hand corner) select this new layer (it should be called "Soft Light Copy". Double click the name and rename it to "Multi White". Double click the thumbnail next to the name, and a window should pop up. There should be a tab that says "Blending Options", select that. Change the blend mode from "soft white" to "multiply".

OK! Let's recap. You should have a background (the source image), and then two "masking" layers on top of that. So far so good?

Alright, it get's easier from here.

Step 7:

create another new layer. Just a regular, defaut layer, no special changes needed (but again, I recommend you name your layer). Select your paint bucket tool and fill the entire layer with the color of your choice.

Step 8:

In the Layers panel (lower right-hand corner) Hover your mouse between the new layer and the "muti white" layer while holding the ALT key. This will make your cursor change from a mouse to two overlapping circles: when it looks like this click the left mouse button. This should apply the new color to the image.

I think you folks can figure out the rest.

Cake Bandits Video post

Cake Bandit, on 08 December 2011 - 02:18 AM, said:

Well, on my connection it took about fifteen hours to upload, and then thanks to Sony the audio got muted because I had music running in the background.

I'm re-exporting it with the music track removed, so it'll be updated sometime in the next 48 hours to actually include some deranged rambling.

The first 16 minutes are actually just me selecting the mech, I left it in because you should be prepared to take some time to do this part. You only have to do it once. Then they gutted the audio so that doesn't matter anymore. I'll record it when I do my next recolor so you guys can check that out as well. Here's a link. Set it to full screen and 720p and I hope you can figure out what I did without my rambling. Sony is really ******* awful about their ****.


Another upload of the non-sony-infringing short-version is in progress.


Alright, shortened go with accompanying ramblings has been uploaded and is available here. I'll field questions I guess.

OH WAIT, I CAN EMBED THINGS!

edit: ninja'd by Dhim while creating my wall of text

Edited by Hartsblade, 30 March 2012 - 09:45 AM.

[CoffiNail]

Apparently I never clicked like on the OP... fixed that

[guardian wolf]

Does that work with Gimp?