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

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vtdad

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Good to see you. It's been a while. Nice to hear you've kept working on digital photomanipulation.

There are several ways to get that "Godfather" style image. We'll cover a few.

1. First of all, you are going to need to mask your character to seperate him from the background. Picking a good source image will be important. Images that have a lot of contrast already (wide changes between light and dark parts of the images) will lend themselves to better results using this technique.



2. Place that render on a black background.
3. This is where things can get a little complicated. The following image has the brightness and contrast changed.



So using Paint.net, go to Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast. Take the contrast all the way to 100. You should be left with a black and white image. Now, change the brightness. You are going to have to play with this to get it right.

Now, if you want the image only monochrome (black and white), you are probably going to have to some tracing. This is where it can get difficult. It may be tracing but it's a lot like drawing. This is where vector art usually starts.

The result can be something like this:

(not my work, found using Google images)

This particular image used a type of vector trace but you can still see where it was cleaned up by hand. These can be very labor intensive depending on how detailed you want to get.

Here's how mine turned out.....thanks again Tim!!!

Did you install GIMP from MacPorts too, or just the normal install?

Could be...I'd give that a shot.

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Did you actually delete the the frames of the first 22 layers, or did you just delete the layers? If you just deleted the layers then the frames of the gif are still there, they are just blank resulting in skipping.

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Yeah I just deleted the layers the first time, went back and deleted the frames but it's still doing it?

ETA: Got it, just started over and it worked, maybe deleting the layers first is what caused it.

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timdallinger - how do you hyperlink an image

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Create a link and in the link title insert the full URL of the image you want to display in your post with [img] tags around it.

I have a question about how to make .gifs. I did read through the thread, and it sounds like either gifsoup or benderconverter are the best tools to use if one is working from a youtube video. But what if you didn't have the video available on youtube?

Basically, this .gif was available about a minute after the match was over. So I'm assuming that the video was not pulled from youtube. So how would one go about creating .gif such as this?

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1) Capture of live video stream to file using a tool like Net Transport

2) Captured video file imported into Photoshop and cut/edited

3) Create GIF


You could also pull from your sat/cable box with video capture hardware (Hauppauge makes some cool shite) or even screen capture to video with a tool like CamStudio.

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Interesting. I'm not familiar with any of those tools.

My best guess was that they burned it to a DVD from their DVR. But that process is probably too slow for as quickly as they got it up.

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TigersSEC2010

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