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[Sauce Devil]

Painting Miniatures In Photoshop

??? :wow: ??? :wow:

 

[Onis Lair]

Yeah i\'ve seen people do this before to test color choices out.

 

[evil tendencies]

That\'s pretty slick. I wish my PS skillz were good enough to make it work!

 

[Gilvan Blight]

I\'ve seen better PS minis but none that used so simple a method. Add a little dodge and burn to add contrast and this could look even better. A friend of mine has been playing with painting minis in PS. He also toyed with the idea of making a contest.

Interestingly I used to do this about 20 years ago using Citadel Combat Cards, a Scanner and my Dad\'s Amiga. I would scan the cards in, in black and white and then use PhotonPaint to colourize them to test out colour schemes. Basically the same thing. Never looked this good though, I think mainly due to PP not being as easy to use as PS.

 

[PegaZus]

That would be a nice article to have up here. Maybe go through the same thing but with Gimp. \"Using Gimp to Test Color Schemes\"

 

[evil tendencies]

Originally posted by PegaZus
That would be a nice article to have up here. Maybe go through the same thing but with Gimp. \"Using Gimp to Test Color Schemes\"

Actually, I think an article written for PS would be better than GIMP. A lot of people use photoshop and learn it in school. Those of us who are proficient with open-source stuff can always get GIMPShop if we need it.

 

[Shawn R. L.]

I always thought it would be interesting to have a separate gallery of Photoshoped stuff. I don\'t mind it\'s use, as long as the person identifies it..............just another way of painting.

Sometimes due to time crunches I\'ve done some enhancing for the catalog shots for Armorcast - The OSL on the bot is totally \'shopped\'

This one took a loooong time to paint and the shot needed to get to AC fast. After all that painting, the clear coat \'ghosted\' and I didn\'t have time to re do it so I just redid it digitally.

 

[Jericho]

I\'ve done it for test schemes before, it works fine. The obvious problem with the method in that other forum is that you need to have a reference miniature which is approximately as light/dark as the color scheme you want to test out. You can modify the brightness and stuff if you want, it would just be a huge investment of time compared to the relatively simple procedure if you have a good reference pic.

 

[Sauce Devil]

OSL... object source lighting. I had to think about that for a minute.

 

[PegaZus]

For the record, I did try this in Gimp last night, and it was surprisingly easy.