re: Teach a man to Fish (Fark Board Beginner Questions)

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My question is, was this the correct tool to use

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Yes. Very good job. Recoloring the image (like you have seen in other restore threads) is a little above the capabilities of Paint.net. At least to my knowledge.

Thanks Tim....again thanks for all your help!

Hey Tim, I sent you something YGM

Here's a basic question on sizing!
Someone asked for help on the Fark board, I used the Hue ans Saturation effect to change his source pic to yellow as per his request. This gave me an idea for our Defense. This year's team is very young and they are trying to find an identity for themselves. They're using this...D-Lock or Lockdown. Anyhow, I thought I'd try to make the eyes orange and add some words. I usually make my source pics 200 or 300 % to work with, but when I saved this one it went back to tiny size!!!!
My question is ....is there anything in Paintnet that I can make the final product the size I want it to be?? Maybe I'm over looking it but I just don't see anything.
Thanks
VTdad

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BUT!!! My pic is distorted a good bit. I tried to sharpen it but didn't work out

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VTDad. That is normal. A bitmap image is made of many small points called pixels. The more pixels, the higher the resolution. If you scale an image, there are now more pixels. Basic computer programs don't know what colors to assign to the new pixels. So it just enlarges the current colors and an image looks distorted.

There are programs that use an algorithm to enlarge photos but that is above the level of Paint.net.

This is where vectors can come in handy as they are not made of pixels so they are scalable without resolution loss. However, this particular image has gradients so it is not the best image to be converted to vector format.

So what am I saying? Making this image cleaner is actually a fairly difficult task. Unless I was dead set on using it for something specific, I would not take the time necessary to fix it. The text is easy enough and the outline could be done with vectors or even the Bezier curve tool. It would be a bit of work and then you haven't even addressed the gradients yet. My verdict: I would leave it alone.

If you wanted larger eyes, you could start drawing from scratch or find a better source image.

I have PS, I know nothing of GIMP. What I would do is redraw the eyes (black, white, grey, and inner red), then in PS there is outer glow. Each color drawn on it's on layer. Then merge layers. Then outer glow. I do not know if Gimp has it or not.

Great ideas all...thanks again guys!

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vtdad - stone effect on faces

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- Put the head on a layer above a layer that has a stone texture image of your choosing

- Desaturate the head layer

- Change the blending mode of the head layer to Multiply

- Adjust the brightness and contrast of the stone texture layer to lighten the burn effect of the Multiply blending mode

- Clone/rubber stamp to fix the eyes and any other areas that don't look statue-like





Fire away if you have any questions.

Nevermind. Figured it out.

What does it look like after you change the blending mode to multiply?

Are you adjusting the brightness/contrast on the stone texture layer?