D&D 5E Looking for a little help with an image...

[Mike Myler]

Is it really easy?
I use a couple guys on YouTube using Photoshop when making paper minis.
They find a pic on the Web and cut out the background when they make a mini. (Beats having to find the perfect mini and having to paint it).

I usually spend an hour erasing backgrounds for people's minis.
:-(

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I would indeed say it's pretty easy.

If the image is low contrast you've gotta give it the airbrush treatment along the edges instead of just selecting the background with the "magic wand" tool.

GIMP is also free and is more able to remove layers and such from an image, but that's probably more complicated than you need/want and isn't always going to work.

(Paint.net is a little easier to use I think but you can still do an awful lot with it )

 

[Ed Laprade]

BTW, I believe that is a clay pipe the halfling stuck behind his ear.

Yes, it is.

 

[Balfore]

I would indeed say it's pretty easy.

If the image is low contrast you've gotta give it the airbrush treatment along the edges instead of just selecting the background with the "magic wand" tool.

GIMP is also free and is more able to remove layers and such from an image, but that's probably more complicated than you need/want and isn't always going to work.

(Paint.net is a little easier to use I think but you can still do an awful lot with it )
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I guess for me the challenge would be familiarization with the terminology.

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[Mike Myler]

Go download it and play around for like 10 minutes. I'm not a young buck by most standards anymore -- it really is very simple to use, and you can google "how do you ______ with paint.net" virtually anything and there are solid directions to guide ya

 

[Mad_Jack]

As a general rule, even the paid programs like Photoshop are fairly easy and simple to use - as mentioned, for damn near anything you might want to do there's at least one tutorial on Youtube, and most programs have their own dedicated forums...

Unless you're planning to use them for professional commercial illustration work, it's quite likely that you'll never need to learn more than a bare handful of basic tricks to accomplish anything you might want to do, particularly for just cropping/editing images for monster tokens or pasting together character images for players.

It's only learning to use those programs to their full capacity that takes a great deal of practice - and like I said, unless you're planning on taking it up as a career (or even a serious hobby by itself) you'll probably never need to figure out more than a couple basic tricks... I've used Corel Photopaint for decades and still couldn't tell you what half the buttons actually do, lol...

 

[Cyber-Dave]

Thanks for the program suggestion! I used it today to create a size comparison between my character and the largest character in the group:

 

[Mike Myler]

It's great innit? I bet you could have the illustration colored to your satisfaction after an hour or so of magic-wanding textures on top of the linework and using the "screen" or "overlay" layer options.

This guy took a while (it's for publication so I had to use specific textures and that trash pile took foooooorever) but it was worth it.

 

[Cyber-Dave]

Yea. It's a pretty great program! Check out my latest modifications.

 

[Mike Myler]

Yeah boi! You should look up the "grim reaper" color plug-in for paint.net (it lets you just suck all of a specific color -- like a white background -- from an image. Afterward you copy that layer, increase its saturation to 100% and put it behind the original layer and boom -- cleaned)