"Post your Art" Thread

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Another 30 minute painting. One of the themes was "smugness".


NotAKitty said:
I use a Canon EOS 1200D; it's a pretty simple beginnere's camera but is really good value for money. And nah, it's from a series Konami released way back in 2006 called Mecha Musume — I picked it up at London Comic Con for not very much.
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Do you do any editing of the images? Like color balance, adjusting the curves, etc.?
 
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A little, but only when I'm not planning to post the photos anywhere. The format used takes up too much space.
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So, you only use tools to make your image better, when you aren't going to show them to people? I heavily urge you to reconsider what you are doing about that. And if space is the issue, maybe you could try saving them at sizes under 20,000,000 pixels? (i.e. 5000 x 4000 px) Especially when there isn't any detail being lost. Post-editing takes seconds and it makes an ok picture becomes a good picture:

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Notice that the heightened contrast gives more focus to the lane between the benches and what lies at the front? This took me 30 seconds to adjust the curves. I highly recommend you try doing some post editing with what you're going to show people.
 
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John Furrman said:
So, you only use tools to make your image better, when you aren't going to show them to people? I heavily urge you to reconsider what you are doing about that. And if space is the issue, maybe you could try saving them at sizes under 20,000,000 pixels? (i.e. 5000 x 4000 px) Especially when there isn't any detail being lost. Post-editing takes seconds and it makes an ok picture becomes a good picture:

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Notice that the heightened contrast gives more focus to the lane between the benches and what lies at the front? This took me 30 seconds to adjust the curves. I highly recommend you try doing some post editing with what you're going to show people.
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Probably didn't give the clearest response to the question; I tweak the color values depending on the photo (the 1st and 5th ones, for example, have been modified where necessary) but I don't tend to change the curves as that only really affects CR2 files. Most of the photos I selected are just ones I grabbed at random.
 
NotAKitty said:
Probably didn't give the clearest response to the question; I tweak the color values depending on the photo (the 1st and 5th ones, for example, have been modified where necessary) but I don't tend to change the curves as that only really affects CR2 files. Most of the photos I selected are just ones I grabbed at random.
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I always adjust curves, in everything, usually as I am working on it. It is almost like cheating to get the exact values you want in a work.
 
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anyone who redlines this will get a virtual dick suckin and my eternal gratitude.
 
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A character design thing where we were given descriptions of the Shrike from Dan Simmons' Hyperion (which I have never read, mind you) and asked to draw it based on the descriptions alone.

It's a bit messy, but have this (and if any Kiwis have read Hyperion, tell me if I'm not too far off o/)

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John Furrman said:
I always adjust curves, in everything, usually as I am working on it. It is almost like cheating to get the exact values you want in a work.
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I like to adjust whenever it's necessary. Some shots require less editing than others, but it doesn't hurt to do so.

That being said, I generally don't edit my film stuff. I don't really see much of a need to unless it's really necessary.
 
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